cawings

Oh, then musha, bad luck to your cawings; its impedence, and nothing but it, to be shouting out in defiance of us, you dirty bastes.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

The field of battle then resounded with the yells of jackals and the cawings of crows, with the grunts of elephants, and the shouts and cries of the warriors.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

You hear the wind whistling in the stable, the great door creak, the dog pull at his chain and howl, and, despite the noise of the forest trees which are groaning and bending close by, you can make out the lugubrious cawings of a flock of rooks struggling against the storm.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

The glare of the sun, the silence, the solitude, the bird cries, especially the cawings of crows, and the delightful, restful leisure -- these conspire to carry me away altogether.

Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

Now that their voices and the cawings of the rooks had ceased, there was nothing heard but the dry rustle of the leaves, and the plaintive cry of a buzzard hawk hunting over the little tor across the river.

The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900

Now that their voices and the cawings of the rooks had ceased, there was nothing heard but the dry rustle of the leaves, and the plaintive cry of a buzzard hawk hunting over the little tor across the river.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Such of them as had compelled husbands or sons to accompany them, had shaken them off at the lawn tennis ground, and though loud cawings from the hall indicated that certain of the more elderly males had congregated there, the ladies in the drawing-room had, so far, been "unmolested by either the young people or the men."

Mount Music Martin Ross 1888

It was blue over the house; but in the distance, coming rapidly nearer and nearer, was a terrible black cloud -- a cloud almost as black as ink -- and already there were murmurs in the trees and cawings among the birds, the breeze growing stronger and stronger -- the prelude to a great agitation of nature.

A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884

It was a large field of fifty to sixty acres, and as I walked by it the birds came flying leisurely over my head to settle with loud cawings on the stocks.

A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881

The forest at that season is vocal, not only with the fine melody of the true songsters, but with hoarse cawings, piercing cries, shrill duets, noisy choruses, drummings, boomings, trills, wood-tappings -- every sound with which different species express the glad impulse; and birds like the parrot that only exert their powerful voices in screamings -- because "they can do no other" -- then scream their loudest.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881