The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. From LearnThat.org. [William Shakespeare (1564-1616)]
The seagull is also known as the mew, likewise an imitative name. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 3] Reference
The cat goes around meekly, crying "mew," while the rest dance around her. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
As a rule, the gelded cat does not "mew" to make known his wants, but employs his voice for conversational purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
The critic Christopher Ricks has pointed out that "mew" rather than the more correct "mews" is in fact an archaic word for "cage.". From Wordnik.com. [Beckett: Still Stirring] Reference
To this touching appeal the cat said "mew" faintly. From Wordnik.com. [The Coral Island] Reference
The next morning, figure my horror! to hear a plaintive 'mew' outside my door. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Arnold, a teacher for 25 years, has begun raising money for Missi's "mew" or aviary at WBR. From Wordnik.com. [Times Record News Stories] Reference
"My mew is a china mew.". From Wordnik.com. [A Jolly Jingle-Book] Reference
They mew like cats, and are as playful as kittens. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox Stories of Natural History] Reference
I listened, and sure enough heard a plaintive mew. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
Generally, it sounds about like "ew" in new or mew. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
It was a piteous mew, and I was determined to find it. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
My nose twitched, and I let out a half purr, half mew. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
And the whining fearful mew of the cat beside him changed. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
The kitten gave a feeble mew and began sniffing the ground. From Wordnik.com. [First Love] Reference
At the same time a piteous little mew pervaded the sanctuary. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
And scared their ghosts with screech of sea-born mew and gull. From Wordnik.com. [Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst] Reference
Yes, faith, I am as mew let freer, beneath me corthage, bound. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
She would like to say, "Good morning!" but she only says, "mew, mew!". From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
The mocker can crow or cackle like the chickens, or mew like the cat. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
I should have heard the faintest mew, for everything is so quiet here. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
"Cabbages wouldn't mew," said Peggy, as the occupant of the basket gave. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference
He had a working room at the end of a garden, in which a laughing mew wandered. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892] Reference
My heart breaks with a kitten's mew, barely audible to the next-door neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [overtaken Diary Entry] Reference
But Claire's warning mew caught him again in midleap, and he dropped to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
Even the tiniest mew of farewell would have been welcome, but it was not vouchsafed. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
"Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, the dog will have his day.". From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
I just call her "mew-mew" half the time, which is more like a question than a nickname. From Wordnik.com. [missfickles Diary Entry] Reference
She did not seem in the least afraid until I was in the water, and then she began to mew. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Even when I did not see it, I heard it mew; and when I did not hear it, I thought about it. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
The chough, the sea-mew, the loquacious crow, — and scream aloft, and skim the deeps below. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
The next morning the new guest was discovered, and the Cat began to mew and the Hen to cackle. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference
I miss her little face popping up randomly on the bed down by my knees and her little "mew MOW?". From Wordnik.com. [katress Diary Entry] Reference
So Johnny Bear began to mew again loudly and uneasily, the clock struck twelve, and Ethelwyn awoke. From Wordnik.com. [What Two Children Did] Reference
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