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  • verb Present participle of miaul.

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Examples

  • And directly there were five Black Cats spitting and miauling.

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

  • Let him try his hoarse miauling in all possible keys!

    Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913

  • But he didn't come down and it made me dizzy -- though I was on the ground -- to see him way up there walking and turning about and miauling shrilly to tell us how impossible he found it to obey.

    Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913

  • The tap, tap, tap of my paws straight through pens and letters and everything scattered about, is addressed to him as well as the insistent miauling when I beg for liberty.

    Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913

  • But there's no organization -- it's only blind kittens miauling.

    The Landloper Holman Day 1900

  • "Hereckenes!" cried Amochol in a clear voice; and at the sound of their ancient name the Cat-People began a miauling chant.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • Senecas, and the hideous miauling of the Eries, quavering, shuddering, dying into the tremendous stillness of the Dark Empire which we had insulted, challenged, and which we were now about to brave.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • On prow and poop there were quartered four companies of Asiatic sharpshooters, -- little, yellowish, with oblique eyes and voices like the miauling of cats.

    Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • And, directly, there were five Black Cats, spitting and miauling.

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

  • For instance, if I should dream of a cat miauling on a roof, it would mean disappointment.

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

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