When she raised her eyes again the east was all aglow with the pink and purple dawn, and the rooks were cawing in the pines across the meadow.
She heard the hoarse whistle of a steamer on the lake; the rooks were cawing in the elm-tree over the roof, and she fell asleep again.
Half-a-dozen rooks whirled in a badly-balanced flight across the tops of the nearest trees, cawing frantically; and the next instant they were seen by the girls like fish in the tanks of an aquarium.
From the clumps of larch in the paddock came the cawing of innumerable rooks, but the song of the lark fell to her ears from the blue sky itself.
Up they went, perhaps a hundred of them, rooks and jackdaws together cawing and soaring round and round till they reached a great height.
There are so many jackdaws about the suburbs that, when a flock of rooks passes over, the caw-cawing is quite equalled by the jack-jucking.
A loud cawing and jack-juck-jucking accompanied this sally.
Except for a little while when I woke up and lay awake and couldn't get the cawing of your rooks out of my mind.
As they went along the path the rooks again were cawing overhead and dimly, like the hint of evening in the air, he remembered his dream and the sense of menace.
The rooks were cawing overhead and Oldmeadow was remembering his dream of a year ago, how Adrienne had come to him along the terrace saying, as she lifted her hand: "I can hear them, too.
Rooks were cawing and he saw a blue ribbon rolling, rolling out across a spring-tide landscape.
Then a crow dared them, and fled amidst a shower of missiles and uproarious shouts, each fellow claiming that it must have been his shot that had struck the limb just where the cawing bird had been sitting.
About sunset the garrison gives notice of their return; their faint cawing will be heard from a great distance, and they will be seen far off like a sable cloud, and then nearer and nearer, until they all come soaring home.
And from looking at Chad now and then, Margaret finally kept her eyes fixed on his--and thus they stood when they reached the gate, while crows flew cawing over them and the air grew chill.
The field outside was full of singing meadow-larks, and crows were cawingin the woods beyond.
The note of the Bird of Paradise is very unpleasant, and resembles the cawing of a raven; it is chiefly heard in windy weather, when they dread being thrown on the ground.
After all, human beings would soon be degraded to wax-works if they could be lectured upon individually in this tranquil and sunny room to the sound of rooks cawing in the elms beyond the Deanery garden.
The foliage of the underbrush was still scarcely touched by the frost, and the cawing of the crows and chatter of numerous smaller birds imparted a feeling as if life were a long, bright holiday.
The air was chill and raw, but crows were cawing lustily, and a bluejay screeched his harsh song near by.
He heard the excited cawing of Blacky and at once turned in that direction.
So back they came, cawing at the top of their lungs, for they were very much excited.
Up flew Blacky cawing wildly, and pretending to be scared half to death.
Quite suddenly those Crows decided that they had had fun enough for one day, and in spite of all Blacky could do to stop them, away they flew, cawing loudly and talking it all over noisily.
Blacky was cawing and pretending to be very much excited.
Then Blacky gave the alarm, and at once all the Crows rose in the air and headed for the Green Meadows, cawing at the top of their lungs.
Never had Blacky felt more like cawing at the top of his lungs.
Overhead the sky lies in faint blue vaults crossed by misty autumnal streamers; the rooks sweep cawing and circling among the tree-tops; a bell is going quick and tinkling: it comes from the little chapel of the Palace hard by.
The children could listen to the cawing of the rooks, to the echo of the hours, as they struck on from one day to another, vibrating from the old square tower of the church.
Small birds have built their nests among the cornices and fissures of the walls, and keep up a continual flutter and chirping; and rooks are sailing and cawing about its lofty gray spire.
There upon her bloated body Fed the cawing crows and ravens, Fed the hungry wolves and foxes.
Then, to console himself, he will fly upon Frank's shoulder, cawing with all his might, as if scolding him for not lending some assistance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cawing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
