miauled

Then the scorpion changed to a vulture and the serpent became an eagle, which set upon the vulture and hunted him for an hour's time, till he became a black tomcat, which miauled and grinned and spat.

Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

Some of those shells screeched and some miauled like huge cats hurtling through the air to spring on their prey.

Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

One hundred and twenty-five Black Cats had seemed to fill the Wise Woman's hut full, and when they all spit and miauled together it was dreadful.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

Because she knew Marco was in the cellar, she felt she had a friend who would assist her, and she miauled appealingly.

The Lost Prince 1914

The cat miauled again, this time very anxiously indeed.

The Lost Prince 1914

He had often looked with wonder at the rock, and miauled bitterly and resentfully as man does in the face of a forbidding Providence.

Cat. 1900

One hundred and twenty-five Black Cats had seemed to fill the Wise Woman's hut full, and when they all spit and miauled together it was dreadful.

The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

It clawed and miauled at the lattice-work of lath, and its caterwauling became like the cry of a child, so like that it woke Annie from her sleep, and still kept on.

Annie Kilburn : a Novel William Dean Howells 1878

Then the scorpion changed to a vulture and the serpent became an eagle which set upon the vulture, and hunted him for an hour's time, till he became a black tom cat, which miauled and grinned and spat.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

But soon we drew out of the hot sunshine into the old orchard with its paltry display of deformed, green, runt apples, and its magnificent columns and canopies of poison ivy -- that most beautiful and least amiable of our indigenous plants; and then we got among scale-bark hickories, and there was one that had been fluted from top to bottom by a stroke of lightning; and here the little red squirrels were most unusually abundant and indignant; and there was a catbird that miauled exactly like a cat; and there was a spring among the roots of one great tree, and a broken teacup half buried in the sand at the bottom.

The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914