Lexicographical Neighbors of Cawings
Literary usage of Cawings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"... master's hand like an arrow and left a permanent opening in it ; whereupon
the master abandoned the vain croakings and cawings of the schools and joined ..."
2. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1865)
"He chose to get the revenue into the exchequer, because he had hungry cormorants
enough about him in England, whose cawings were more troublesome to his ..."
3. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"I 've no notion to lose my corn-crop this summer. (Outside, the faint cawings of
crows are heard. Putting down her tongs and hammer, ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Herbert Dickinson, Joseph Quincy Adams, Joaquin Miller, Robert B. Honeyman (1883)
"... And heard amid the mist below, Like voices of distress and pain, That haunt
the thought» of men insane, The fateful cawings of the crow. ..."
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