He scarcely touched it, yet the baby stirred and mewed faintly.
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A cat mewed, a baby cried, and something heavy fell and shattered.
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The marauder mewed like a cat, hoping the grocer would let go.
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The book has a lexicon with certain different names for foreign objects. A Children's Literature review noted the words "kittypet" and "twoleg" which mean housecat and humans respectively. In the book, instead, of using "said", Cary uses the word "mewed". This was criticized with the reviewer writing "that 'he mewed', 'she purred', and 'the warrior mewed', which pass for cat talk, grows old fast".
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An orange tabby cat poked its head out of the grass and mewed.
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Now he mewed at her from the hedge in front of the farmhouse.
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Her cat mewed at her anxiously and snarled at Cameron, who snarled right back.
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After which he mewed like a cat, and relapsed into silent meditation once more.
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How precious lonesome you must be, mewed up in the house all the time.
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He purred and mewed, his greying whiskers giving his face the appearance of a Cheshire cat.
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I wouldn't want to be mewed up in that room with the old man every night.
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Gradually he opened his eyes and the cat mewed before jumping down and shaking its head drowsily.
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Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed, and now she threatens to have me up before the matron.
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Mews were originally cages in which falcons were placed during their molts, periods when they mewed in a sickly fashion.
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She was just sitting quietly one afternoon at a friend's house in Naklua when a tiny tortoiseshell kitten walked inside and mewed at her.
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The word itself derives from the royal stables at Charing Cross in London built on the site where the royal hawks were once moulted or mewed.
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We are also asked to believe that, out of shame at his daughter's disability, he mewed her and her late mother up in ever smaller, tighter rooms.
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Walking into the living-room, my eyes scanned every item for clues, while the cat prowled through my legs and mewed in an effort to grab my attention.
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The next house had a collection of pickaninny dolls on shelves running the length of the living room, and a plump orange cat that blinked and mewed inquisitively as he passed.
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III (Chiswick: Charles Whittinghame, College House, 1826), p.357, fn. 13Ibid. p. 357 and also Richard III: "This day should Clarence closely be mewed up".r See mew up at Shakespeare's Words website.
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His personal library, comprising at least 1,700 books – more than ten times as many as a typical Oxford don of that era – contained many astrological works.O’Connell, pp. 15–17 For three years, from 1615, Burton served as one of the two clerks of the market, a university post overseeing the conduct of trading in the city’s market and guarding the interests of members of the university in their dealings with the traders of Oxford. O’Connell comments, "A Burton acquainted with the marketing practices of the fishmongers and brewers of Oxford suggests a worldliness at some variance with his self-portrait in the Anatomy of a scholar mewed up with his books".
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In the book, instead of using "said", Cary uses the word "mewed". In response to a question at the Q&A; section of the forum, Holmes explained that the cats' names come "in two parts, either or both of which can reflect something about the cat's appearance, personality, or habits". However, the names must also be part of the world the cats know; Holmes originally gave Tigerclaw the name Hammerclaw until one of the editors pointed out the cats wouldn't know what a hammer is. For the names, Kate Cary says that she takes in inspiration for the names from "sight, sounds and scents the cats would experience".
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Hilary Williamson, writing for BookLoons, gave Moonrise a positive review, calling it "exciting" and a "gripping epic". A reviewer for Kirkus Reviews criticized the novel for mundane writing, easy-to-confuse names, and the use of the words "meowed" and "mewed" instead of "said". The reviewer thought that the plot was "marred by the same preciousness of its predecessor", but praised the plot for its "enhanced complexity" and suspenseful writing, saying that "a small plot twist is refreshing and suspense builds steadily towards the final installment". The novel has also been mentioned for containing "magic, fantasy, and heroic adventure", and was recommended to fans of Harry Potter as possible reading material after that series' end.
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During the course of Old Dame Trot and her Wonderful Cat (1803), the Dame looks in the cupboard for fish but finds none, "for puss had been there before". Two more suggestive stanzas follow:The Moving Adventure of Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat, Darton 1807, pp.3-5 > She went to the butcher’s To buy her some meat, When she came back She lay > dead at her feet. She went to the undertaker’s For a coffin and shroud, When > she came back Puss sat up and mewed Thereafter the cat continues to perform household chores and comic feats and the two exchange courtesies in the final stanza, much as do Mother Hubbard and her dog at the end of Ms Martin's work.
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Mewed up as a prisoner in all but name in his princess bride's mansion by her supernatural servants, he soon discovers she is a female Bluebeard who regularly collects husbands and petrifies them as she tires of them. By calling on the aid of Dr. Tsudai, a Serican sorcerer whose life he had saved during his earlier stay in Letitia, Eudoric is ultimately successful in freeing his three predecessor-husbands from statuehood and escaping their lethal spouse. Safe back in Locania, where his nuptials are not recognized, Eudoric receives a message from Yolanda pleading for him to return, as he is the only one of her husbands whose loss she regrets. He prudently ignores her letter, choosing instead to resume his courtship of his original intended, Lusina — she is also back, having grown disillusioned with her unreliable lover.
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Berkeley first married, in September 1554, at Kenninghall, Norfolk, Katherine Howard, third daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Frances de Vere, daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell, by whom he had a son, Sir Thomas Berkeley, who predeceased him, dying on 22 November 1611, leaving a son, George Berkeley, who succeeded as 8th Baron Berkeley.. Berkeley's first wife, Katherine, died of dropsy at Caludon on 7 April 1596, and was buried on 20 May near the Drapers Chapel at St Michael's, Coventry. Katherine was fond of field sports, and said to be 'so good an archer at butts with the longbow, as her side, by her, was never the weaker'. She was also fond of falconry, and 'kept commonly a cast or two of merlins, mewed in her own chamber, to the detriment of her gowns and kirtles'. Berkeley married for a second time, on 9 March 1598 at St Giles, Cripplegate, Jane Stanhope (c.1547–1618), widow of Sir Roger Townshend (d.
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