Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.

There was no answer though I heard the faint mewing of the cat.

Then suddenly a little cry like the mewing of a cat was heard throughout the silent house.

Only the thin mewing of the wagon wheels punctured the silence.

Then I heard the mewing of a cat.

As the engine starts, so does the panicked mewing.

Their fingernails made a soft insistent noise, like the mewing of cats left outside by mistake with night coming on.

"Hello, Mitch," his daughter said, her voice like the mewing of a kitten, not much more than a squeak, but very clear.

Silvio was troubled; his piteous mewing was the only sound in the room.

I heard him lock the chamber door and, a few minutes later, the mewing of his cat scratching at the wood for admittance.

Andrew Mewing (1981) is a former national-team swimmer from Australia.

They were quiet; a small sound, like the mewing of a kitten, came from the shop, then it stopped, and Lalette came back in.

He heard the distant bleating of several goats and the mewing of gulls.

Other descriptions include a soft squeal or whistle and a shrill gull-like mewing.

Mercer thought of the white palace walls in perpetual sunlight, and the soft mewing of the little things when he reached them.

The shore was quiet, with only the rustle of the surf along the sand and the mewing of the gulls.

To hear the scream or the mewing of a cat, some false friend is using all the words and work at his command to do you harm.

He distinctly heard the mewing of tiny kzin twins as Boots re- moved the security of her warm, soft fur.

Then came the startled mewing of seabirds wheeling in alarm and the sudden chatter of excited men.

The only sounds were the crashing of the high surf on the rocks below and the mewing of the gulls as they circled overhead.

Lulling of gentle surf and mewing of gulls were almost the only sounds adrift through coolness.

'Don't push your luck,' he growled; but the growl came out about as menacing as the mewing of a kitten.

Gulls called, and the sound of their laughing voices, which Jill said reminded her of the mewing of cats, echoed all round them.

Now he had to detour around some warbeasts' pens, the smell and the mewing of the great catlike creatures coming out of them in waves.

Well, really not much more than a single mew, it's so small.

Mew found the fire had gone out and blew to 76 for 145.

I lie in bed waiting for the next mew, all worked up.

He opened his mouth in a soft sound that was not quite a mew.

She had made no mew of pleasure at being on home territory.

In fact it was just a feeble little mew, but she heard him, and looked up.

In the video games, it is possible for Mew to learn any move that can be taught.

There was a long silence and then he made a faint mew.

She explains that one day, Mew will understand the meaning of the song.

The name "Mew" refers to the sound made by a cat.

The thing let out a shrieking mew and jumped toward him.

Fortunately an assistant stopped mew before I went through the roof.

With a little mew of despair, she turned away.

A tiny mew of fear made it past her blocked throat.

She pushed one hand weakly at my face and began to cry instead of mew.

The general made another mew and looked away, silent for a moment, then he looked back.

There was a scratching at the door and a plaintive mew.

In the video, the four members of Mew were on board a ship, along with their captain, an elephant.

"I think they're excited about flying with us," said Mew.

Mew has rejoined the band, and they are playing nearby.

"It was a girl," she managed in a weak little mew.

However, Mew decides to talk with the tree, using its powers, and brings everyone back.

A sort of albatross, I believe, or perhaps a prodigious great mew.

In 1884 a new lighthouse was built on Mew Island.

She was making a tiny, repetitive sound, a little mew, as if in response to a lover's touch.

There are enough stories about why I mew my wife up in the country as it is.

The cat began to mew, looking for a way to escape.

"And this rabbit did not mew when he was killed?"

The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

But evil little kids who mew like a cat?"

Cindy began to mew like the kitten she had seen her uncle drown.

I mew what it was, had noticed it before.

Breeding pairs of these woodpeckers have been heard to softly mew at each other.

Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

The droid continued to mew and cry as blows rained down on her.

"I did not like to accept her conditions, but I mew that the monster was outside.

"You'd mew yourself up in a cold library?

"I mew your husband, ma'am," the big man said.

He shouted, which caused Kevin to mew disapproval.

The sullanciri tried to mew, but it came out broken before he relaxed his grip.

One convent's nuns would regularly mew like cats.

Thirteenth began to mew like a cat.

She had worked on a long barge with a woman who, at night, would mew like an otter as she swam among the reeds.

The two children used to go together to peep through the iron grating at the dragon, and sometimes they would hear him mew piteously.

Only . . . will they mew in Chinese?

The flapping of their wings and the strange cries they make would indeed have been eerie for those who Mew nothing of bird migration.

'Sometimes they seem to mew like a cat sir.'

To borrow and slightly emend the words of Shakespeare: That cat will mew, but this dog will have the day.

He ran across the room and stood opposite a low table on which stood the mummy of an animal, and began to mew and snarl.