| 单词 | mews |
| 例句 | I was carrying the hamper, and mews came from within. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It covered the mountains and roads, the fields and the mews on Jon’s mountainside. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z All the hawks were silent as Merlyn carried their new companion into the mews, and silent for some time afterward when they had been left in the dark. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Saddened and angry, he drove home, parked near his barn, and walked to a large bird mews. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back of the house; but the mews was deserted and no one had seen him depart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A ceiling protected the mews from rain and snow, but more importantly from the wild hawks and owls for whom anything that moves is fair game. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She pulled on her falconer’s glove and stepped inside the mews. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Her mews faced the cote, and she watched the birds long hours. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We know every avenue, road, street, terrace, mews, place, close, lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There was a stair beyond the mews, seldom used; it was there his feet took him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I could be a hawk in Hob’s mews,” said the Wart stoutly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Her long confinement in the mews, while she moulted, had got her into a sulky and temperamental state. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z By late afternoon the Woods had returned all the birds to their perches and mews. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The kennel was on the ground floor, near the mews, with a loft above it, so that it should be cool in summer and warm in winter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The mews are empty, save for thee: Property of the master’s son. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The mews are all but emptied now, The great birds auctioned, one by one — One single sparrowhawk is left: The one tamed by the falconer’s son. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I circled the castle mews and followed the hedgerows past the fields and beyond the village. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Jon held her against a padded board that stretched from one side of the mews to the other. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Jon went from one mews to another, hooding each occupant and carrying it to his tour van. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Three sides of the big mews were wooden. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Quiet as a shadow, she flitted across the middle bai-ley, around the Tower of Dread, and through the empty mews, where people said the spirits of dead falcons stirred the air with ghostly wings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Susan smiled, stepped into the mews, and took Frightful on her gloved hand. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The red-tailed hawk in the next mews moved, and Frightful flew at her, hit the wire, and dropped to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In the morning, he sits stoically as I clean the cuts, but digging the thorn from his paw brings on a round of those kitten mews. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He closed the mews door and walked to the pigeon cote to refresh the pigeons’ water. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Now scaled back to a total of 8,000 homes, the "legacy communities" will be formed from familiar things: terraces and squares, mansion blocks and mews houses. London's Olympics legacy faces early disqualification 2013-07-21T18:30:01Z Spot your favourite products at the Museum of Brands, London The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising is up a cobbled mews in Notting Hill. The Museum of Brands, Notting Hill, London 2012-09-28T21:45:02Z "Now, doesn't that look normal?" she mews to the studio audience as the camera zooms in on her creation. Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z From Chelsea through Camden and Shoreditch to the docks, there are terraces, mews and warehouses saved in the nick of time from the bulldozer, offering acceptable homes for rich and poor. Excalibur's castles built from postwar dreams must not be demolished 2011-01-06T21:00:04Z What I did not expect was Strout’s disarming warble of a laugh, which filled the Friedrich Agency’s book-lined mews house on the Upper West Side and triggered a dimple on her right cheek. At 66, Elizabeth Strout Has Reached Maximum Productivity 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Secreted in the basement of a mews house in a pop-up neighborhood called the Brompton Design District was a show of sneaky objects by several Britain-based designers. The Details: In Praise of British Design 2012-09-26T22:11:26Z But the clock hasn’t run backward: Frankie and her fellow birds of prey live not in a medieval mews but in modern aviaries. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways In those years the mews still served its traditional function: two of the six stables in the alley leading away from our back door were occupied by working animals. Tony Judt: My London 2010-08-13T23:05:00Z They called for ketchup like my lungs call for air, like a cat mews for milk, like my Absolute Best Tests narration calls for human company and/or psychiatric intervention. The absolute best way to cook potatoes, according to so many tests 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Then left on to Princes Consort Road, crossing Exhibition Road, continuing to Princes Gardens, before needling through the quiet back mews till they reach Brompton Road. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Chandler Investments Limited claimed the embassy left a rented Wellington mews house without covering cleaning and other costs. New Zealand landlord loses rubbish row with Chinese embassy 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Raspy grunts, high-pitched mews, guttural barks and the occasional roar bellowed toward my group of hikers at Año Nuevo State Park, a remote strip of coastal bluffs about 60 miles south of San Francisco. How California’s Elephant Seals Made a Remarkable Recovery 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It is one of four properties they are believed to own, including a four-bedroom mews house in London, where the couple have lived with their two daughters. Akshata Murty: Who is Rishi Sunak's wife? 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z A hawk and a falcon in the mews where Erik Swanson keeps some of his five hawks and 12 falcons. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Yet as he lay horizontally watching the show in his red bunk bed, those same yips and mews and zings never got old. For NFL player Cassius Marsh, the magic came with gathering of nerds 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Apprentices must trap, train, and care for them in home enclosures called mews during the season, which generally runs from late fall to spring. Falconry, an ancient form of hunting, finds new devotees 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Ollie Rose III, 61, of Pleasant Hill faces multiple charges, including conspiring to use a facility in interstate commerce in furtherance of unlawful activity. according to a mews release from the U.S. North Carolina prison official accused of bribery smuggling 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z “I landed funny,” the girl mews in pain, a femur jutting out of her thigh, as some unseen honcho barks to a stage manager: “Hey Miranda? Can you bring some paper towels?” In ‘Dance Nation,’ a teen competitive dance team (portrayed by adults) invites us into the secret world of tweendom 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The raptors live in spacious mews that take up much of the small property’s side yard; the pool was filled in to make room. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s up a small mews and sprawls so casually across two floors that it still feels like the 60s inside. David Bailey: 'Deneuve said it's great we're divorced – now we can be lovers!' 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z “We’ve had huge dumper trucks blocking the mews. There’s still work going on. I fear the demand will go on and on.” What lies beneath: the subterranean secrets of London's super-rich 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z These newcomers were buying up the “shabby, modest mews and cottages” and turning them into “elegant, expensive residences.” When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z XL’s offices are in Notting Hill, in a mews a block and a half away from the colorful street markets of Portobello Road. Richard Russell’s XL Recordings Empire 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z "Yes", says Karen Edwards, who lives in a mews in Brighton where one in eight properties are party houses. What is it like to live near a party house? - BBC News 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z A mews is a British term for houses located off the main street and around a courtyard or garden. A historic D.C. church building anchors a cluster of multilevel Parkview condos 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Bespectacled, rangy and calm, Elliott comes across as the very opposite of a flame-eyed ideologue – more as a prosperous investment banker who has not let his mews house in Chelsea go to his head. Brexit: how a fringe idea took hold of the Tory party | Matthew d’Ancona 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z On the side nearest Old Georgetown Road, eight of the houses will face an English garden-style mews, scheduled to be completed this summer. Bethesda homes give owners a break on outdoor maintenance 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The bird is then taken back to a mews, usually an enclosed building for housing it. Select few allowed to hunt with falcons, birds of prey 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The label still occupies the same tumbledown office it always did, on a mews in west London. Adele: ‘I can finally reach out a hand to my ex. Let him know I’m over it’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z "I wasn't best pleased," Johns said during an interview at his airy London mews house. Rock Soundman Glyn Johns talks Beatles, Stones 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Perhaps unsurprisingly I'm calmer on the back streets, walking through a beautiful mews, a cobbled alleyway and a park, than in the hustle and bustle. The scenic route to your happy place 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The Ecurie Ecosse team was started by accountant David Murray, who ran the team from a garage in an Edinburgh mews. Racing team's cars sold for £8.8m 2013-12-02T14:58:03Z Apartment doors opened to the outside rather than onto hallways; the units had communal mews and private backyards. Big City: In Marcus Garvey Village, a Housing Solution Gone Awry 2013-06-01T05:16:17Z The designs show views of the green streets, residential mews and the proposed new footbridge linking the riverside park with Caerau. £100m housing designs unveiled 2012-08-20T11:38:29Z More than three quarters of the terraced and mews houses, set within tree-lined avenues alongside a new health centre and nurseries, will be family homes with three or more bedrooms. Taylor Wimpey wins bid to develop Olympic Park neighbourhood 2012-08-05T16:46:48Z One of the funds is run by US billionaire Ray Dalio, while another is managed from a south London mews house by British multimillionaire David Harding. Church of England risks vicars' pensions in hedge funds 2012-07-29T11:52:02Z Shemuel scurried back into the mews; Foxcroft followed, and in a moment his portly figure was lost to sight in the dusky alley. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z In the mews round about the Potteries are the remnants of the Italian colony that drifted here some years ago, when Little Italy in Clerkenwell began to be encroached upon by the modern builder. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z The mews aforesaid is now superseded by a factory. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z He was managing director and helped to create the Cinnamon Kitchen -- serving the financial district -- before leaving to open Roti Chai, an Indian street-food restaurant on a quiet mews off London’s Oxford Street. Goldman Trader Who Quit City Likes It Hot at London Restaurant 2012-01-10T00:40:26Z If one nest should be disturbed in May or June, when the birds are raising their families, all the catbird neighbours join in the outcry of mews and cat-calls. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z A moment later, in the mews, I heard a shrill whinny, and the tattoo of shod hoofs dancing. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Here, in a large coach-house in a mews, is a proprietor of ice-cream barrows hard at work repainting his stock in gorgeous colours. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z As Mrs. B. herself candidly pointed out, “The arching leads to a mews; mewses must exist.” Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Behind me was a mews, with horses that moved their feet in their litter and dragged at chains from time to time. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z In a nursery he operates in what was once a mews and greenhouse for the archetypal Newport mansion, the Breakers, he grows European beeches grafted to rootstock from the American beech. Trouble for Gilded-Age Beech Trees in Newport, Rhode Island 2011-10-24T20:35:38Z There were torches lighted in the mews; an hostler took Warlock; I swung out of the saddle and stepped back to a shelter from the storm. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z A little farther down the mews we climb the crazy staircase that leads to the loft, and find a middle-aged widow occupying it with five children. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z Sea mews were wheeling and calling among the uncouth hummocked gorse, which crowded up on either side of the white poppy-edged road. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Is this a better explanation of the English word mews than has generally been given by writers? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:34.553Z He held in the establishment what might be termed the double post of master of the mews and keeper of the fox hounds, being principal falconer and huntsman of the household. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z I seized his arm, drew him along the wall, and into the dusky mews. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The room took more findin'; but there's an old pal o' mine a shover in the mews. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z The sea mews, flapping slowly past with their feet hanging, cried them good luck; and the thyme clinging close as moss to the ground, sent them delicate greeting, "like dawn in Paradise." Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z When Kate wishes to get out at night she goes to her master’s bedside, and mews loudly and entreatingly. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z Over the heads of the travellers flew millions of water-birds,--pelicans, wild geese, storks, ducks, gulls, curlews, and mews. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z "There's one back way tew every mews, and half a dozen to this!" Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z We have at least two eating their bonnets off in our mews. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Then I thought of the mews, and I ran back there. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z Shortly one separated from the rest—turned into the mews at the corner of the street, and immediately returned with a bench that he had borrowed at a public-house. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z For instance, there are terraces at the end of the garden made to hide the mews at the back from overlooking the grounds. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z In the dark mews behind the "Wild Goose Tavern" had gathered a shadowy company of horsemen, unfortunate patriots who had not been quick enough to leave the city before the troops shut its landward gates. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Buildings where establishments of hawks were kept were called “mews.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Oliver was in a bad fix, and his piteous mews as he clung to the pipe showed that he realized it. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z "I live in a mews," he used to say. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Be violets, in their secret mews, The flowers the wanton Zephyrs choose; Proud be the Rose, with rains and dews Her head impearling; * * * * Thou art the poet’s darling. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z A dark cloaked figure came swiftly out of the mews, swinging two unlighted lanthorns. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Then they went round to the kennels and looked at the hounds, and to the mews, where Hawksworth and his fellows were feeding the falcons. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z The development will be a mixture of flats, mews houses and town houses, with 35% reserved for affordable housing. West Ham's Olympic Stadium move will happen 'as quickly as we can' 2011-03-09T10:38:11Z This meant more than a figure of speech merely, though the "mews" in question is very different from a London street mews. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z They stood before it, voicing little mews of anticipation and so eager that their heads alternately raised and dipped, then turned, as though on swivels. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z Through reeking lanes, foul alleys, and muddy mews where gaunt dogs battled over scraps with gaunter children, we ran, 433 or lurked to listen, shunning the bleared lanthorn-light, shining through the storm. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Milenko, who perceived him, uttered a loud cry, almost a raucous cry of joy, just as mews do as they pounce upon their prey. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z And she will accompany herself on it when she mews. The Cat and Fiddle Book Eight Dramatised Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Performers 2010-12-29T03:00:28.543Z When the little kitten Poetry mews in her tenderest tones, the dog Prose begins to bark furiously and the little enthusiast is silenced. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z The mews outside had come to life again. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Again and again I went out into the mews, leaving my food untasted, only to find Mount standing quietly at the horses' heads and the Weasel pacing up and down, plunged in reverie. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z “Some impudent person once observed,” continued the butler, “that when a footman married he took a room in a mews for his wife, and furnished it with a tub and a looking-glass.” Lady Maude's Mania Midnight had sounded from the stable clock in the mews when he stole up into the boys' room and cautiously approached the yellow iron bed where Tommy lay. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath It was deserted, save by a cat who shivered and crouched under the archway of the mews. A Bed of Roses Not a suspicion did he seem to have that he had made similar confidences before, in his rooms in Cambridge Circus, in that loft over a South Kensington mews. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The post-chaise, loaded and ready for a three weeks' journey, stood in the mews with the four strong horses harnessed, 294 and Jack Mount at their heads. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The police have gone on down the mews, but I dare not look round to see if they are on our track.” Blind Policy London has 10,500 distinct streets, squares, circuses, crescents, terraces, villas, rows, buildings, places, lanes, courts, alleys, mews, yards, rents. The Night Side of London Opposite was the archway of the mews out of which came most of the traffic of the street. A Bed of Roses High over the roofs of the mews, as if suspended at random in the sky, the oblongs of light of the South Kensington backs showed. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z There were lights moving in Governor's Alley and the mews; through the sleet great snow-flakes whirled into the 431 slush of the filthy street. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Now then, out in the mews, and walk together. Blind Policy She showed the kitten to Eric, handling its tiny paws gently, hushing its plaintive mews with ridiculous pet names. The Medici Boots In proper sentences of purr And monosyllables of mews When I have told my news to her, My kitten tells me kitten news. A Little Freckled Person A Book of Child Verse Three minutes further walking brought us to a high stone archway with a heavily carved and moulded entablature, beneath which a cobbled way sloped slightly down into a mews. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The post-chaise had driven off into the mews when I returned to the street, but Jack Mount was waiting for me, patting Warlock, whose beautiful head had swung around to watch for my coming. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z There was no back exit, but constables were stationed in the mews all the same so as to keep an eye upon the stabling to right and left. Blind Policy It contained over forty rooms and dormitories, with a large playground at the back extending the whole length of the mews. Rambling Recollections of Chelsea by an old inhabitant Knights of the Garter.—The queen's gallery.—The queen's plate.—The royal mews.—The wicker baby-wagons.—The state equipages. An American Girl Abroad I passed up Queen's Gate and turned into the mews where I had arranged to meet Trenchard. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z A skin of a wild beast? a stone pipe? the mocking-bird that mews for all the world like a cat? the cardinal-bird that is as red as blood?—take your pick and say your pleasure.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) Once out in the mews, make for the street, and you are safe. Blind Policy The waves murmur, the sea mews scream, Old recollections possess me; Forgotten dreams, banished visions, Tormentingly sweet, uprise. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine Knights of the Garter.—The queen's gallery.—The queen's plate.—The royal mews.—The wicker baby-wagons.—The state equipages. An American Girl Abroad He should write any book he wanted, do anything on earth he liked, so long as that loft in a South Kensington mews became an upper room in Cremorne Road all over again. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z He tore open the door of the cab, roaring to the driver: “Round that corner to the right—quick—then into the mews at the back!” Cynthia's Chauffeur “Mimi” stretches her full length, extending and retracting her claws, rolls on her back, turns her big yellow eyes to Céleste and mews. The Real Latin Quarter Amelia shared with me a night nursery and a nursery-living room in this house, the latter overlooking the mews, through the curving iron rails of a tiny balcony. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography We waited before a great gate until the striking of some forgotten hour, to visit the royal mews. An American Girl Abroad The children looked dismayed; the little kitten stood looking up at its unsociable host with a sweet, questioning little face, uttering mild little mews of protest in answer to his thunderous growls. Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades Beau-Minon followed her in spite of some rude rebuffs which he received with plaintive mews. Old French Fairy Tales The groom thought it was to be taken in the Park, and was himself on his way back to the mews when the riderless horse overtook him. The Camera Fiend Near by is a select livery stable and mews of sub-rural aspect, with Virginia creeper climbing over a horse's head in stucco. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography At the rear of the palace, concealed from view by a high mound, are the queen's stables or mews, so called because the royal stables were formerly built in a place used for keeping falcons. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Lyon's Place, a straggling mews, preserves the name of the benefactor who left the estate he had bought here to found Harrow School; and the names Aberdeen, Cunningham, Northwick, etc., are associated with the school. Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London He never mews unless he wants a drink, or to run out-of-doors. Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly But," said the Count, beginning to walk about again, "she shuts her door: the animal mews at it; my wife ignores the appeal. Captain Dieppe It was as we went out of the mews that we first saw the Goat. Oswald Bastable and Others At that moment a series of pathetic mews was heard in the entry, followed by a violent scratching on the oil-cloth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 I promised to do so, and went round to the mews immediately. The Man Who Drove the Car The gulls and mews clamored rapturously, and squabbled with gay zest over the choicer prizes of their fishing. Kings in Exile When she cannot frolic, she mews; but, as she is frolicking all the time when she is not asleep, she does not make much of an outcry, after all. The Nursery, June 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 6 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers No footprint leading to that horrid mews,135 None out of it. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning It was an intense relief to speak to some one who could understand his mews. The Magic World So I hired a loafer who was hanging about the mews, and set him to the work while I read the papers and smoked a cigarette. The Man Who Drove the Car And to mews and kennels and huts, in the straw and beds of rushes, these men betook themselves. The Fifth Queen Crowned But, as we were going down the mews, he said reflectively, 'I've been thinking—it will be better for all parties, if you make your offer to my proprietor before you dismount.' The Talking Horse And Other Tales His plea was that he would not be molested in taking orders down the mews by p. 78any bird that wore a tail. My Father as I Recall Him The diminution of late years of house-flies in London houses is simply and solely due to legislation compelling the removal of horse manure from the "mews" so frequent at the back of London streets. More Science From an Easy Chair We dashed to the back of the house, through the servants' quarters and out into the mews. The Blue Germ He has no notion of giving you anything but the best he can command if it be only fresh porter from the nearest mews. Tom Brown at Oxford Guano is formed of the excrements of different kinds of marine birds, as mews, divers, sheerbeaks, &c.; but the species which I can name with more precision are the following:—Larus modestus, Tsch.; Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests O'er my tide, The ermine of my surges and the flags And mews lie dense, and pearls sleep in my breast. The Masque of the Elements There was some disturbance last night in consequence of the mob assembling round the King’s mews, where the rest of the battalion that had marched to Portsmouth still remained. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I And beyond them the low houses of a mews which ran at the back. The Dark House A Knot Unravelled In the midst of the mews stood a small and remarkable building called Queen Elizabeth's Bath. The Strand District The Fascination of London It was just five minutes past one when I drove into our mews.” The Herapath Property I’m just going to get my old horse into the first mews, shove on his nosebag and then get inside and go to sleep. The Bag of Diamonds In the thirteenth century a Dominican Convent was founded in this part of the city, and occupied the southern portion of the circus, together with Chapel Street and the adjoining mews. Exeter Look here, my lads, there’s a stable to let in the mews at the back.” The Dark House A Knot Unravelled The mews were removed to make way for the National Gallery about 1834. The Strand District The Fascination of London Mountain, discovered at the mews wherein the Herapath stable was kept, said at once that he remembered the gentleman who had come out of the House of Commons with his late master. The Herapath Property And here, in the coolness of the stone-walled mews, he learnt much about the Administrator; little tit-bits of information which were unlikely to be published in the official gazette. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country When, in 1534, the royal mews, or hawk-houses, near Charing Cross were rebuilt as stables, the word acquired its present meaning. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The delightful Charley mounted again to take the two horses round to the mews. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Ye screaming sea mews in the concert join! Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands “Queer how deficient most of our people are in the faculty of observation!” remarked the Professor as he and Selwood left the mews. The Herapath Property She stands up and claws and mews until she is fed. Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes The windows were open to the mews; the candle flames flickered in a tepid breeze. Sacrifice She crossed over the little street, and hid herself in the shadow of a passage leading to a mews. Good Old Anna Then the stables for horses were put in the same place; and hence a row of stables has come to be called a mews.—Quarry is quite as strange. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 The contemplation of the mews and the chimney-pots through the back-windows of the nursery will not elevate even the most impressible child. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography In a few minutes Mr S— and our hero went out by the back way into the mews, and, as soon as they came to a stand, took a coach and drove to the hotel. The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook Little St. James Street is insignificant and diversified by mews. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London The mews was uninviting enough by daylight, by night it was worse. The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant Nothing ever comes there but the gulls and mews, with a few sea parrots. The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap The spaces behind the houses are occupied by mews. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London It was the morning the cat got lost in the oven, and all of us searching the house over because of the piteous mews of it. More about Pixie In the street behind the block of flats was a mews, consisting of about a dozen shut-up stables, all of which were rented by a taxicab company, and now used as a garage. The Daffodil Mystery They shut the cover down tight, paying no attention to Lady Jane’s dismal mews. Peggy in Her Blue Frock It was true that the other end was close to a slum, and there was a mews across the way, but these were small drawbacks compared to the social advantages. The Hand in the Dark Two Miltons, in separate ages were born, The cleverer Milton 'tis clear we have got; Though the other had talents the world to adorn, This lives by his mews, which the other could not! The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings His studio was composed of a set of rooms and haylofts in the mews at the back of Harley Street, all thrown into one long gallery. Art in England Notes and Studies The hood of the car was up when it was seen in the mews and the time apparently was between ten and eleven on the night of the murder. The Daffodil Mystery At night, the chariot whirls round the frequent corners of these little streets, and the opening valves of the mews vomit forth their legion of broughams. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Burgo from thence took his way back into Grosvenor Square, and from thence down Park Street, and through a narrow passage and a mews which there are in those parts, into Park Lane. Can You Forgive Her? There was energy in that small action and a bitterness of sound altogether indescribable, the mews of the astounded kittens quavering shrilly and loudly through the general frenzy. Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters The earth, completely green, rises again from the sea, and where the mews have but just been rocking on restless waves, rich fields unplowed and unsown, now wave their golden harvests before the gentle breezes. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda I was going back to the flat with the intention of collecting my overcoat, when I saw a number of people walking about the mews behind the block. The Daffodil Mystery Part mews, part warehouses, and all disreputable, the upper story of it, as it showed itself to me over the wall, held some of the frowsiest of London's horde. Lore of Proserpine "But yet in the evidence you gave before the magistrate in Bow Street I think you expressed a very strong opinion that the man you saw running out of the mews was Mr. Finn?" Phineas Redux Each house-cat is given all it can eat on Christmas Eve for if, by any chance, it mews, bad luck is sure to follow. Yule-Tide in Many Lands Sail on sail along the sea-line fades and flashes; here on land Flash and fade the wheeling wings on wings of mews that plunge and scream. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems When I got back to the mews I found it deserted. The Daffodil Mystery We never find one animal adopting the vocal sounds of another—a bird never mews, and a cat never sings. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour And how would this new information have been received had Lord Fawn sworn unreservedly that the man he had seen running out of the mews had been Phineas Finn? Phineas Redux In walking down Orchard Street from the Square he had seen two men standing in the shadow a few yards up a mews or small alley that was there, but had thought nothing of them. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Then Molly Whuppie began to laugh like anything, and the dog joined in with barks, and the cat with mews. English Fairy Tales If the murder was committed in the flat, it was by this way the body would have been carried to the mews, and here, too, a car would attract little attention. The Daffodil Mystery He did not curl up, but rubbed against the young man's arm, finally reaching up with a paw to touch Dane's chin, uttering one of the soundless, mews which were his bid for attention. Plague Ship Then he went on till he came to the end of Clarges Street, and looked up the mews opposite to it,—the mews from which the man had been seen to hurry. Phineas Redux There was a man over the mews who beat his wife regularly twice per week, or else she beat him. Fanny Goes to War Every one wrote "music" on his card, after the two acts in which plaintive mews floated up from the rocks and the Gibbs family were taken sick. The Little Colonel's House Party It is really the simplest thing in the world to get into Miss Rider's basement flat by way of the mews behind. The Daffodil Mystery "Your Majesty will see in this rock a little White Cat who mews sweetly and has soft little velvet paws," answered the Prince. My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales "Does he remind you of the figure of the man you saw come out of the mews?" Phineas Redux There were mews somewhere in the vicinity, and I could smell the horses and even hear them champing in their stalls! Fanny Goes to War Then you can take the horse to the mews. Acton's Feud A Public School Story In another minute I emerged through the swing-door, bearing a furtive glass of that same "usual," and nipped down the mews where my friend was wont to await these little tokens of esteem. A Christmas Garland Always seeming to be strolling away from the house, but glancing back over his shoulder now and then, he saw Mr. Barradine's brougham come out of the mews and stand at Mr. Barradine's door. The Devil's Garden "We call him Old Rowley in honor of the oldest, wickedest horse in the royal mews," said the duchess, laughing. The Touchstone of Fortune On the little jetty at the Anchor Close my father sat on an upturned herring creel, smoking his pipe, and watching a flock of sea mews floating gracefully on the green water. The Pilots of Pomona Being now more than suspicious, they went to the back of the house, through the mews, where, with great difficulty, they managed to force a window and effect an entrance into the house. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman The horror of it held me by the hair, but I flung it off and pelted down the lane and through the mews. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts As the Duchess had said, it occupied the site of what had once--about 1740--been the westerly end of a mews belonging to houses in Cureton Street, long since pulled down. Lady Rose's Daughter As we crossed the courtyard to the mews, where our good hawks were, Lodbrok said to me: "I fear yon falconer is ill pleased with me." Wulfric the Weapon Thane High above the rain goose shrieked its melancholy cry, and the sea mews and sheldrakes, even the shear waters and bonxies, flew landward to the shelter of the cliffs. The Pilots of Pomona "While your Béarnais, who mews like a cat, bites like a tiger." The Forty-Five Guardsmen The house was a corner one, between the street and a by-lane tenanted mostly by cabmen; and at the back of it ran the mews where they stabled their horses. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts The rest of the mews had been converted into three-story houses of a fair size, looking south, with a back road between them and the gardens of Cureton House. Lady Rose's Daughter Black eternal peat-bog, or these waste-howling sands with mews and seagulls: you meet at least no Cockney to exclaim, "How charming it is!" The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I The "Museum" was removed, upon the pulling down of the mews, to Dr. Hunter's house in Leicester Square, and was finally closed upon the establishment of the Royal Polytechnic Institution. Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 Once on a time there walked a mariner, That had been shipwrecked;—on a lonely shore, And the green water made a restless stir, And a great flock of mews sped on before. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Antonyms: instability, unsteadiness. stable, a. steady, firm, immovable, unwavering, constant, permanent. stable, n. barn; mews. Putnam's Word Book Mademoiselle Julie meanwhile was wrestling with Nero, the younger, who had dived to the very heart of a peculiarly unsavory dust-box, standing near the entrance of a mews. Lady Rose's Daughter He possessed a motor-bicycle which he stabled in a mews behind the Square. Mr. Prohack Mr. Cunningham, in his Chronology, says the mews was taken down in 1827. Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 How meekly mews the Demure, relapsing into that sweet under-song—the Purr! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 The old man crawled one day, bowed with humility and clo'-bag, into a military mews and uttered his tremulous chirp. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People "And so, Sir," he continued, "I have taken the liberty of telephoning to the mews for a cab." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914 The laurel, madrone, and manzanitas keep it company for some distance on either side, and a catbird mews and purrs from a clump of willows on the margin of the stream. Byways Around San Francisco Bay A hound gave tongue responsively among the heaped mews and doggeries beneath the ramparts. Red Axe He pointed to a narrow turning some dozen yards ahead, apparently the entrance to a mews or yard and closed by a pair of massive wooden gates. The Mystery of 31 New Inn Next week he crept into the mews again, trusting to meet another hostler. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People It went to the wrong house because, as the proprietor of the mews informed us with shame and regret, the driver entrusted with the order had been very much under the influence of alcohol. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914 Each was like a Druid rock, Or like a spire of land that stands apart Cleft from the main and wall'd about with mews. Composition-Rhetoric You may remember that a ring is formed and the person within the ring who is "it," kneels before someone in the circle and mews or purrs appealingly three times successively. Entertaining Made Easy For as the second gate, which is in iron, is approached, your thoughts of rural things are rudely scattered by sight of what seems a London mews. A Mere Accident As I re-entered Henry Street, Thorndyke emerged from the mews and halted on seeing me. The Red Thumb Mark He was gazing miles away, through the window, through the opposite houses, their offices, their washing-ground, and the mews at the back. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." He had no hawks with him, but bred them in his own mews on the Elk River. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 From thyme-sweet pastures grey with dews The milch-cows came with swinging tails: And whirling high the wailing mews Screamed o'er the brothers at their pails. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls The pal approved of the cats, now dormant in Persian repletion, and they were bundled into the sacks, and taken away on the barrow—mewing, indeed, but with mews too sleepy to attract public attention. The Phoenix and the Carpet Each was like a Druid rock; Or like a spire of land that stands apart Cleft from the main, and wailed about with mews. The Princess Perhaps the mews we heard were his dying groan. Anne of the Island "Your Majesty," replied the Prince, "will find in that crystal chair a little white cat, which has such soft paws, and mews so prettily, that I am sure you will be charmed with it." The Blue Fairy Book The mews were active, the Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation. Dracula She had to shout this entreaty, for the mews were growing deafening, 'and it would take pounds' and pounds' worth of cat's-meat.' The Phoenix and the Carpet A milk boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel. A Study in Scarlet When I add to this that Diamond's mother was but poorly, for a new baby was coming, you will see that these were not very jolly times for our friends in the mews. At the Back of the North Wind She found him leaning against the window in the failing light, listlessly watching the horses and grooms in the mews, which his high window overlooked. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World But the mews was deserted and no one had seen him depart. Dracula The liveliness of Persian mews alone prevented the occurrence of a dismal silence. The Phoenix and the Carpet A fair spring gushed out near the spot, and once traversed yards and courts, attached to well-built and convenient kennels and mews. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier But before they had reached the entrance of the mews, another voice called after young Diamond, which, in his turn, he had to obey, for it was that of his mother. At the Back of the North Wind How was he to identify the narrow entry of Number 9, whose counterparts doubtless communicated with the mews from every residence on four sides of the city block? The Black Bag The sister, red-eyed with crying, was handed over to him, and he and she were soon in a cab, speeding towards the Westminster mews whither she directed him. Sir George Tressady — Volume I A wild chorus of mews drowned his words, and with the mews were mingled the shrieks of the musk-rats. The Phoenix and the Carpet She was shut up with Papa, tight, in the narrow cab that smelt of the mews. Mary Olivier: a Life For the baby's world was his mother's arms; and the drizzling rain, and the dreary mews, and even his father's troubled face could not touch him. At the Back of the North Wind Those behind him, remarking with resentment the amazing fact that an intimate of the mews should run away from liquor, cursed and made after him, veering, staggering, howling like ravening animals. The Black Bag They tacked through alleys and raced down dark mews, and clambered over walls. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 The mews and the squeaks grew softer, and in the comparative silence, Cyril said— 'It's true. The Phoenix and the Carpet For to her he was everywhere that night—ubiquitous as the luminous mist that brooded all over London—of which, however, she saw nothing but the glow above the mews. Stephen Archer and Other Tales She tugged at the window, but it was stiff; and before she could open it, Diamond, who was in a great hurry, was out of the mews, and almost out of the street. At the Back of the North Wind As Kirkwood turned, a third vehicle rumbled up out of the mews. The Black Bag At length as they wandered they came to a part where seemed to be only small houses and mews. Weighed and Wanting Land birds which twit the mews that scream Round walls where lolls the languid lizard; Brine-bubbling brooks where fishes stream Past caves fit for an ocean wizard. Poems The hoods and jesses were ready, very prettily adorned with red morocco leather and gold thread; the mews were ready too, with partitions in trellis-work of my own making,—everything was ready except the peregrines! Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Turning the first corner he came to, and the next and the next, he stepped into a mews, the court of which seemed empty, and slipped behind the gate. Mary Marston By now the mews had wakened to the fact of the presence of a "toff" in its midst. The Black Bag He has all the tricks of a cat; he mews like one, he lets you stroke his back, and there are times when his fiercer instincts show in his eyes. Youth and Egolatry Let me pass on, merely saying that King Arthur was shot that night in the mews at the back of Mrs. Nagsby's, a victim to his own indiscretions. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories And in my pretty fairy-land no cruel boys appear; Only black eats and white cats, and purrs and mews to hear. Mouser Cats' Story Presently a man came out of the mews in a Scotch cap and a full beard. Mary Marston At the same time they gathered momentum, banging swiftly, if loudly out of the mews. The Black Bag To oblige a former cook we had brought down with us as stable-boy her son, George Sims, an imp accustomed to be the pet and jester of a mews. Chantry House I also taught him to talk in mews at the word of command. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories About eleven a carriage or two would be driven round from the mews, and stop before a house to take some one for a morning drive; but very seldom was anybody on foot seen about. J. Cole I crept miserably out of the house and made my way to the mews. The Yeoman Adventurer Through the only other entrance to the mews a belated cab was homing; its driver, getting wind of the unusual, pulled up, blocking the way, and added his advice to the uproar. The Black Bag But just outside the door was a storm window, from which, over the top of a lower range of houses, he had a glimpse of the mews yard. The Marquis of Lossie There was, however, no other connection between the unsavoury mews and the aristocratic carriage-yard, whose proprietor, resplendent in side-whiskers and a shiny chimney-pot hat, advanced to meet us, a condescending smile diffusing his smug countenance. A Girl Among the Anarchists They packed the animals in—the cat giving ventriloquial mews from her basket, the rabbit in its hutch, the bird in its wooden cage, and Foxy sitting up in front of Hazel. Gone to Earth My carriage stopped, I got out, and it then drove on to the mews. The House of Whispers Night had fallen sultry and humid, and the walls and doorsteps were well fringed and clustered with representatives of that class of London's population which infests mews through habit, taste, or force of circumstance. The Black Bag The light of their lanterns dimly showed a confused crowd in the yard of the mews, and amidst the hellish uproar of their coarse voices he could hear Kelpie plunging and kicking. The Marquis of Lossie We had now reached our destination, and passing the curious scrutiny of several cabmen and scavengers assembled at the entrance of the mews, we prepared to ascend the break-neck ladder leading to the office. A Girl Among the Anarchists A sound of street music entered the room through the open ventilators, for a band had begun to play in the stable mews at the back of the house—the March from Tannhäuser. Three More John Silence Stories Stanley Rees was brought into this house through the mews, without observation from any living person. The Profiteers I certainly heard nothing of the noise in the mews last night. The Old Man in the Corner When he reached the yard of the mews, the uproar had nothing abated. The Marquis of Lossie The side-door for "jugs and bottles" gave on to a dirty and odoriferous mews, down which my destination lay. A Girl Among the Anarchists Odd as it may seem that a German band should twice within the space of an hour enter the same mews and play Wagner, it was nevertheless the fact. Three More John Silence Stories Here on the lake a few yards from the tent was a loon swimming about, minutely inspecting the tent and uttering at intervals deep cat-like mews in expression of his curiosity. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Two stood within the shadow of the steps of the Congregational Church at the corner of the mews, others were stationed well within a soft call. The Old Man in the Corner Before noon Lord Liftore came round to the mews: his riding horses were there. The Marquis of Lossie "We seem destined to consort with the cabbing trade," I remarked; "the last office was over a mews, this place seems to belong to a carriage-builder." A Girl Among the Anarchists "I am the cat that mews in the well." The Mill Mystery Now these mews were of such wonderful beauty, that I must needs append a description of them here. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 The minutes sped on; absolute silence, in spite of the presence of so many men, reigned in the dark and deserted mews. The Old Man in the Corner And so such tame hawks be kept in mews, that they may be discharged of old feathers and hard, and be so renewed in fairness of youth. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Workmen came in and out through the mews at the back and brought ladders with them and tools in queer bags. The Head of the House of Coombe Missus in the clean little rooms over the rattling mews was no less delighted. Once Aboard the Lugger Afterwards they all descended to the courtyard, and his Grace entered the ducal mews himself, to select a horse for the day. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 You will notice that the row of back gardens have each an exit into the mews. The Old Man in the Corner And therefore their mews must be far from smoky places, that their bodies be not grieved with bitterness of smoke, nor their feathers infect with blackness of smoke. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus No sooner have I carefully swished all the mosquitoes from under the bar and turned in, than a cat scratches and mews at the door - turn out and let her in. Travels in West Africa The mob had proscribed the mews, for they said, "the king should not have a horse to ride upon!" The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 Unharness that mare," his master ordered, "help the man push his trolley back out of the way, then lead the animal to the mews in Curzon Street. The Evil Shepherd These mews are built in the shape of a capital F. The photograph is taken looking straight down the short horizontal line, which ends, as you see, in a cul-de-sac. The Old Man in the Corner Every morning he mews at her door, as though to inquire if she has slept well; every evening he keeps her company until it is time for her to go to bed. Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian They made paniers, hampers, mews or wicker cages in which the hunting birds were kept when moulting, and even small boats from the osiers and reeds. Masters of the Guild It was healthy and magnificent because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people. Jacob's Room From the height of his tower the small houses were like the nests of sea- mews, the boats were like beetles, and the people moved around like small points on the white stone boulevard. Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian We can get the things out behind the house into the mews. The Way We Live Now It had a secret exit through a mews at the rear—now converted into a garage—and several other mysterious contrivances which were unsuspected by visitors. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo I went back to the street, and stationed myself in the pitch darkness of a passage which led down a mews, situated exactly opposite to the hotel. Basil In some vile hole here in this great city of ours he drags on a life worse—aye, a thousand times worse!—than that of the horses in the West-end mews. Demos The mews flew over the light-house, crying as if alarmed for their old friend. Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian "A beautiful model," Rodney said to himself, as he watched her going up the mews. The Untilled Field Pennant says that the royal stables in London were called mews from the fact that the buildings were formerly used for keeping the king's falcons. The Lady of the Lake As he approached the entrance to the mews he paused, yawned, stretched his arms, and began to whistle a tune. Basil It was the first she had heard of the mews behind Ducie Street. Howards End It was the first she had heard of the mews behind Ducie Street.� Howards End But as he turned into the mews in which his studio was situated he saw the woman whom he employed to light his fire standing in the middle of the roadway. The Untilled Field The pale mews plained below us, and the waves seemed far away In a nether sky, engrossed in saying their ceaseless babbling say, As we laughed light-heartedly aloft on that clear-sunned March day. Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces So is his son Nigel, as fierce a young war-hawk as ever yearned to use beak and claws; but held fast in the mews up to now. Sir Nigel Yes, in summer especially, the mews is a serious nuisance. Howards End Yes, in summer especially, the mews is a serious nuisance.� Howards End Then, as in mockery of all The tuneful spells that e'er did fall From vocal pipe, or evermore shall rise, He snarls, and mews, and flies. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 Up comes her little gray coaxing cat With her little pink nose, and she mews, "What's that?" The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 All the lodgings I knew are full, and our bedrooms look into a mews. The Longest Journey On the heels of the population of the neighbouring mews came two policemen, and at the same moment out came the barman to the assistance of Andrew. Robert Falconer For some days we saw a large number of aquatic birds with webbed feet, known as gulls or sea mews. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Thence they arrived, by more steps, at the mews where in old times the hawks were kept, now rather ruinous though not quite neglected. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald Dr. Staines detected internal odors, as well as those that flowed in from the mews. A Simpleton I drove straight to the milliner's shop, which I had observed, when I was there yesterday, had a back entrance into a mews, for the apprentices to go in and out by. Armadale There were tiger cats, Maltese cats, black-and-white cats, black cats and white cats, tommies and females, and his heart leaped to meet the pleading mews of all. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The process of liberation did not appear to be very agreeable, judging from the angry mews which proceeded from her. Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp The master inquired the cause, and the man told him, and said the mews was too hot for him. A Simpleton In a moment I was out in the mews; in another, I was in the next street; in a third, I hailed a passing omnibus, and was a free woman again. Armadale The delightful Charley mounted again to take the two horses round to the mews. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Even in his preoccupation the mews came with a stab. The Heritage of the Sioux |
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