caw

• These emotions had been roused far more deeply than he realized, and he lifted his face to God in the hope that no lesser thing should come in to mar the beauty of his Church There came a day when he walked out in the sunshine, and heard the hens caw-cawing about the yard, and saw the young colts playing about the barn. —  Wayside Courtships
• One morning during prayers a jackdaw began to caw, and as the bird was traced to the ownership of Thomas Edward, he was dismissed from the school in great disgrace. —  Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
• Sometimes a crow would caw, to hear strange sounds go past, like an old watchman's rattle moved one cog. —  The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
• So the doctor turned him about quickly with a sort of chill between his shoulders, and perched on the back of his chair sat a portentous old quizzical carrion-crow, the antediluvian progenitor of the whole race of carrion-crows, monstrous, with great shining eyes, and head white as snow, and a queer human look, and the crooked beak of an owl, that opened with a loud grating 'caw' close in his ears; and with a 'bo-o-oh!' —  The House by the Church-Yard
• In Summer How the rooks caw, and their beaks seem to clank Let us just move out there,--(it might be cool Under those trees,) and watch how the thick tank By the old mill is black,--a stagnant pool Of rot and insects. —  The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art

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