Criminal Valours, who commit Your gallantry, whose paean brings A psalm of mercy after it, In this sad solstice of the King's, Your victory hath mewed her wings!
The sun hath mewed his beams from off his lamp And majesty defaced the royal stamp.
Directly under the council chamber, however, is the prison, where general offenders are mewed up no more comfortably than in the abysses of St. Aliquis.
Blondine had scarcely uttered these words, when the white pussymewed again and pointed with her little paw to a small package lying near her, wrapped neatly in fine white linen.
Whenever she was lost in these reflections, Beau-Minon, who seemed to comprehend what was passing in her heart, mewed plaintively, pulled her robe and tried to draw her from the pavilion.
The little beast rubbed against his legs, stuck up a ridiculous tail, and mewed hopefully.
As Emma Campbell stepped into the one that was to convey her and Peter to the boat, Nancy saw her stoop and lift a large bird-cage containing, of all things, an immense black cat, which mewed plaintively at sight of her.
For it must be remembered that I was but a lad of twenty-three, and that up to now, in spite of my many day dreams, I had been kept mewed up in the old manor with my father, knowing but little of what was going on in the great world.
You had a chance such as few men have, and you spoiled it; you have gained the king's enmity, and you have allowed yourself to be mewed up here in this stinking hole with a lot of psalm-singing Nonconformists.
Then I had mewed like a cat with all the strength of my lungs.
To-day when he walked home, carrying his jacket on his shoulder, he was taking home only one unknown bird, but that seemed to have wings of gay silk and metal; and the cat mewed as usual when he saw him coming.
When Hauke went by, the cat mewed at him and Hauke nodded; both knew how each felt toward the other.
I've been beaten, too, if you come to that,' mewed Maurice.
Maurice put pride aside and mewed to have the milk put down again.
But Beauty mewed up in a two-pair lodging is worthless to the possessor; while, with a fine establishment, a devoted protector, my dearest girl might command the highest company in the town.
I hate to think of her solitary hoursmewed in your miserable second-floor parlour, when she ought to be enjoying the summer air in some rural garden, idle and without a care.
She talked like a Parrot, She quacked like a Drake, She mewed like a Cat, She hissed like a Snake--Oh yes!
He only shivered and shook and mewed pitifully now and then.
Jazbury promised he would, and then he ran out into the kitchen and mewed for the cook to open the outside door for him.
Well, you see, I had to learn to catch big things in the wood," mewed Jazbury.
Mixy looked up from her empty milk pan and mewed and looked down at her pan again, and looked up at me again and mewed again, and then walked over to me and rubbed her sides against my boots like she liked me a lot.
Little Jim stooped down to pet her, and she lifted her head without standing up and rubbed the sides of her pretty black and white face against his small hand, and mewed lazily, with half-closed blinking eyes.
One may as well be still mewed up in the old castle of the lake, if one is to sit the live-long night between four walls, and hearken to old ballads.
I looked upon the fellow as your dire enemy, andmewed him up for hurling treacherous lance at you.
How fares it with the prisoner--he whom you have mewed within the dungeon?
Then shemewed once more; but that was her last expression of doubt or dread.
Out of the room sped Jennie again, and the China Cat, who had heard what the little girl said, mewed to herself: "At last I shall have a chance to see the Nodding Donkey again.
Nothing else mattered for the time, and she would havemewed out a song if she had been allowed to do so.
Every now and then he stopped and looked over his shoulder and mewed as if he were calling some one to follow him.
Muffet was out in the sand-box, and when Johnny showed her the dish she mewed and rubbed against his legs, and seemed to want something very much.
She'd drive Peignton daft, mewed up in that little house.
Suppose man had to live day and night mewed up with his clerk and office boy; suppose you were followed wherever you went by grumbles and breakages, and a smell of onions, and daren't let go, in case you were left to clean the sink yourself!
But when she saw how staunch the child is in believing as mine own good dame taught her, she saw, no doubt, that this would be mere giving her over to be persecuted and mewed in a convent.
Cicely, "but she had always been a queen, and was used to being mewed up close!
Remember that did the bruit once get abroad, thou wouldest assuredly be torn from me, to be mewed up where the English Queen could hinder thee from ever wedding living man.
It were well if I were watching over her," said Humfrey, "but she is mewed up at Tixall, and I am only keeping guard over poor Mistress Seaton and the rest.
