I heard the cawing of a crow in the distance.

Except for the cawing of a single crow, there was silence.

He heard the cawing of birds all around him.

The next morning he was awakened by the cawing of crows.

He made slight cawing sounds as Newman bent him back.

All was quiet except for the cawing of distant crows.

He could smell the sea, and he heard the cawing of a crow.

Their cawing and squawking was clearly audible in the grove.

As he returned, a harsh cawing tore the silence.

Shedemei's voice sounded like the cawing of a crow when she answered.

The only sound was the harsh cawing of a bird within the vaulted chamber.

The cooing and cawing have a transporting effect on one's nerves.

The cawing and hopping from the crows had increased.

There was a faint cawing of some large bird, perhaps a raven or native mawu.

A coyote does not fear the cawing of carrion crows with no name."

Occasionally the cawing of rooks could be heard.

Sometimes now I hear the voice of ravens in my mind and their cawing is like the voice of death.

The monotonous cawing of seabirds was soon to be broken, however, and not by quite such a fearful development.

And there was a cawing, like gulls.

Only the melancholy sound of a crow cawing can be heard as Fat Fred starts his announcement.

She heard the cawing of the birds - carrion birds, she knew.

Interspersed with the cawing was the cry "No meat, no meat!"

Somewhere in the trees beyond her vision there was a cawing; a crow ascended above the pines, circled down at another point.

The Huddle Silverhair heard the ugly cawing of the Lost.

At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness.

No doubt the playgoers expected him to caw at any moment.

By not disturbing the crows, who will caw and alert the other birds that you are there.

And that when they caw so stridently, it's always a sign of impending death.'

"Bet I caw," Sue said, rising quickly to the challenge.

Females and infants may "caw" when under mild distress.

The griffin was in the center, spreading its huge wings, beak open as if to caw exuberantly.

The only thing moving was a carrion crow, which flapped heavily down onto a pine above us, and began to caw.

I want to caw it off."

But these crows don't caw and cackle, they whisper: "What if?

Six or seven huge crows wheeled about in the front yard, then settled into an oak and commenced to caw at one another.

They don't caw.

Before it could caw again, Jander sent one of his silent commands, and it subsided into slumber.

Mark heard the windmill-creaking of its voice, and he caw that it was now carrying a sword, clutched close against its body in one taloned foot.

'Are you going to caw or croak, I wonder,' said Lu-Tze, apparently to himself.

Flocks of black choughs caw sleepily as they flap and glide out over the talus slope to begin tie day's hunt for food.

A parrot might innocently caw such sounds even in your cathedral church, Your Excellency, because a parrot cannot know what they signify.

A few crows caw casually overhead and chickadees flit through the tangle of wild rose briars on the bank searching for choice rose hips.

We decorated the entire office with gaudy halloween decorations, including a raven with a motion detector that would caw and flap its wings whenever someone walked by.

These people fought anti-gravity gliden and energy weapons, he thought, and this clown thinks he's going to caw them with a few helicopters and a demeaning name.

Like a stern father, Peter J. Dubacher stands back warily as a pair of sandhill cranes caw invitingly and flutter their velvety gray feathers.

The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best, but the moment she opened her mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground, only to be snapped up by Master Fox.

In Michael Kahn's 1969 American stage version, after "Canterbury exhorted Henry to 'unwind your bloody flag,' " Mr. Loehlin reports, "the King's Lords, standing on barrels, began to caw and wave their arms like birds of prey.

It's strange to think that old Caw has gone at last.

It gave a rough caw which he took for a yes.

CAW began in 1961 with a group of high school friends.

Mercer tried to ask what it was all about, but produced only a caw.

The loud caw of a crow was the return signal.

As he worked, the Lost made a noise like the caw of a gull.

Lopez's laugh was more of a crow's caw than anything else.

She laughed then, a harsh sound like the caw of a crow.

It was crow caw but the words were clear.

At my words the raven let out a croaking caw.

It was more like the caw of a crow.

To her it sounded like the caw of a thirsty crow.

She suddenly felt like a hunter who has just heard the warning caw of a crow.

The voice came from the dark alley, a few feet away to his right: a sick-crow caw.

There was a cry, high and wavering, like the caw of an eagle.

The sharp caw of a crow cut through the softer chorus.

It flew off with a reproachful caw and he shut the window.

It is kept by a man called Caw.

There was a derisive caw from above her head.

There was another noise, a raucous, rough caw, and he jumped at the sound.

Outside the window of the dining room, a rough caw sounded, as if the crow agreed.

It gave a cry like a raven's sharp caw, then suddenly snapped its head free again.

It was the only sound until the crow took off from the telephone wire with a raucous caw.

The big black bird let out an angry croaking caw and sprang away from the body, but not far.

Never again, said the caw from the kite-haunted bones.