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are cawing
  • present progressive of caw.

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The hawk sails high in the sleepy air, The buzzard on wings as strong and fair Circles and stoops 'neath the lazy cloud, And crows in the wood are cawing aloud.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

The rooks are cawing, and a faint cry of plover comes from the hill.

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur

As I write, the rooks are cawing in the church-yard elms, disputing and chattering like a set of busy prosaic burghers.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

The rooks are cawing in the elms, the cuckoo's note has been heard in the spinney for some time before these little visitors pass in jerky flight up and down the valley.

From Birds in the Calendar by Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George)

Dogs are tracing thro' the grass, Crows are cawing round the chimneys, In and out among the washing Goes the West at hide-and-seek.

From Poems by Henley, William Ernest