At this she would spring after the delicacy and bring it back in a hurry, determined that it should be eaten, mewing and coaxing just as she might with her kittens.
The months sped along and we children had almost forgotten our late favorite, when one day he came mewing into the yard, and in so pitiable a condition that all our hearts were moved for him.
Their habit of mewinglike a cat has gained for them the local cognomen of cat-birds.
The genie went to him in the shape of a monstrous cat, mewingat a most fearful rate.
There are other spirits who cannot bear the barking of a dog, the mewing of a cat, and so on.
This he accomplishes in the usual cat fashion, by running towards the barrel and mewing up in his master's face; and of course this appeal is never made in vain.
After mewing piteously at my door for a day or two, it leaves the house, often remaining away for weeks; but his delight at seeing me, the fond rush towards me, and his song of joy are very pretty.
She failed, however; but walked directly up to where the gentleman was standing, and mewing in his face ran back and sat down below the udder, plainly requesting the favour of his assistance.
Pussy went after him nevertheless, lying down in front of him, and mewing piteously up in his face.
At breakfast you will be likely to find me on the door-step with a bowl of bread and milk, while Halicarnassus sits on the bench opposite and brandishes a chicken-bone with the cat mewing furiously for it at his feet.
Cat describes a semicircle around the window, back and forth, back and forth, keeping ever her back to the room and her front to the foe, glaring and mewing and licking her chaps.
The slight swell of the bay rocked the barque to the creaking tune of block and cordage, whilst overhead the sea-gulls flittedmewing against the vast black cliff that rose three hundred feet sheer from the licking sea.
She lay awake listening to the whale birds crying and the divers mewing and quarrelling like cats, then, dropping asleep, she was awakened at dawn by a new sound.
As they bent to their work and over the creak of the leather in the rowlocks the rumble and fume of the seven mile beach came mixed with the yelping and mewing of the gulls.
On the wind they could hear the sound of gulls quarrelling, a sound quite distinct from the ordinary mewing and wheezing of the gulls at peace.
It was like looking at Silence herself, silence set off and explained by the beach noises, the sound of the surf, the calling of the terns, the mewing of the great white gulls.
It was therefore no wonder if occurrences of such an extraordinary nature as those alluded to were immensely magnified by report, and if it had, at least in many places, converted the mewing and biting nuns into as many cats and dogs.
He then went to the door of an adjoining room, and stood theremewing most piteously.
It shewed signs of impatience, by jumping down and up again, mewing vigorously the whole time.
Flossy hung around her, mewing till she got out her work-basket.
She looked frightened, and began hunting around the room, mewing piteously.
Peter was very green, as you will understand, but he soon discovered that mewingkept the mice away, and having taken the lesson to heart, preserved silence for the future.
The sound was as much like mewing as it was like anything else.
Hartley heard him emit his mewing little laugh, and heard him say, with the elephantine archness affected by certain dry and middle-aged gentlemen: "I come with congratulations.
She came into the kitchen two or three times a day, mewing loudly for milk and food, but after eating very fast she always disappeared at once.
But her heart softened at the sight of Aunt Frances's evident distress of mind at the very idea of climbing into the loft, and she brought the kittens down for inspection, Eleanor mewing anxiously at the top of the stairs.
The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of the passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
Pincher seemed annoyed by the vivid flashes of lightning; and, just as he had crept nearer to my feet, some one entered the room followed by puss, who walked in with a disturbed air, and mewing with all her might.
Not long after this, the mewing became so piteous, that I could no longer resist going to see what was the matter.
The mewing of the cat excited my wife's attention.
She began running backwards and forwards on the top of her bookcase, mewing piteously at every turn.
Puss is a tame little creature, and comes rubbing herself mildly against our shoes, looking up in our faces, and mewing her thoughts.
A gentleman, in the court of the emperor Ferdinand, would bleed at the nose on hearing the mewing of a cat, however great the distance might be from him.
The kittens were foraging among the bushes, but she called to them in a tone which told them plainly enough that some new trouble had befallen her, and they hurried down to the water's edge, and stood there, mewing piteously.
Taking the thing up, she perceived that it was a toy cat with a mewing arrangement underneath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mewing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
