Caw Caw

J. and I regularly argue about the word "coffee", which I say like "caw-fee" (as in caw-caw, like a crow), and he says cah-fee (being influenced by MA and CT, although he'd never admit it.) ❋ Unknown (2005)

Like the voice of famine through the lonesome air came the caw-caw of the crow. ❋ Unknown (1996)

She called, but the "caw-caw" of a crow was the only answer. ❋ Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (N/A)

Colin listened and heard it, the oddest sound in the world to hear inside a house, a hoarse "caw-caw." ❋ Unknown (1911)

When the bells chimed in the tower of the Cathedral they sounded much farther away than usual; the song of the thrush somewhere in the elder bush near the garden door was curiously remote; the caw-caw of the rooks dropped down as if from an immeasurable distance. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

The noise of recitations, and the buzz and drone of the scholars at their lessons, was sometimes intolerable, and one might as well try to study in the noisy caw-caw of a rookery. ❋ Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 (1885)

Never had I witnessed birds so manifestly rejoicing at their good fortune, with happy, loud caw-caw. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Rooks, too, were there, breeding on the cathedral elms, and had no time and spirit to wrangle, but could only caw-caw distressfully at the wind, which tossed them hither and thither in the air and lashed the tall trees, threatening at each fresh gust to blow their nests to pieces. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The faint musical note was another little gray bird singing the delight of his soul as he perched himself upon a twig; the light shuffling noise was the tread of a bear hunting succulent nuts; a caw-caw so distant that it was like an echo was the voice of a circling crow, and the tiny trickling noise that only the keenest ear could have heard was made by a brook a yard wide taking a terrific plunge over a precipice six inches high. ❋ Unknown (1890)