Thesaurus / mew
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A dog would bark; a kitten would mew; a parrot would say "Pardon!"
THE NURSERY, DECEMBER 1881, VOL. XXXVARIOUSHe brushed around Von Rosen out in the kitchen, and mewed a little, delicate, highbred mew.
THE BUTTERFLY HOUSEMARY E. WILKINS FREEMANMew-hew-she-kaw, the White Cloud; first Chief of the nation.
ADVENTURES OF THE OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM; VOL. I (OF 2)GEORGE CATLINHow they would mew over my delinquencies, and what scratches I should get from their velvet-shod claws!
THE MAN BETWEENAMELIA E. BARRThe Black Cat gave vent to a single Mew,—a most unnatural sound for a mouser,—it seemed as it were mewed through a cow's horn!
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, VOLUME IIVARIOUS“Very good,” said Peterkin, tossing a lump of pork to the cat, who received it with a mew of satisfaction.
THE CORAL ISLANDR.M. BALLANTYNESomething put into my head that tremendous blasphemy of Carlyle's about "the last mew of a drowning kitten."
TONO BUNGAYH. G. WELLSOne says, with great solemnity, on a momentous occasion, "Thrice the brindled cat hath mew'd."
TRADITIONS, SUPERSTITIONS AND FOLK-LORECHARLES HARDWICKMew-Mew sat with her eyes half shut for hours, to think what a shame it was no other cat ever came to see her.
BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEWGEORGIANA M. CRAIKMew-Mew was so put out with the thought of Bow-Wow going away, that for a time she could not speak.
BOW-WOW AND MEW-MEWGEORGIANA M. CRAIKWORDS RELATED TO MEW
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