lowings

By this time the cattle are awakening from slumber, and, with their soft lowings, reminding one of a pipe which I used to hear played by a certain blind old man.

Through Russia 2003

The noises that ascended through the pallid coverlid were perturbed lowings, mingled with human voices in sharps and flats, and the bark of a dog.

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 2003

The quartermaster proved right, for as the cloud came nearer, quite a chorus of bleatings and neighings, and bel-lowings escaped from it, mingled with the loud tones of a human voice, in the shape of cries, and whistles, and vo-ciferations.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

The Trosedil, as the church tongue named the war, had arisen when three different men, each with their own fol-lowings, laid claim to the throne.

Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001

For the lowings of the driven cattle, the shouts of the triumphant Highlanders, the deep rage of the Baron, stalking to and fro wrapped in his cloak on the Castle terrace, might well have astonished the crowd which in these summer days comes from the four corners of the world "to view fair Melrose aright."

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Upon this, some of the cows, as they usually do, lowed on missing those that were left; and the lowings of those that were confined being returned from the cave, made Hercules turn that way.

The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

Meminger regarded her feelings no more than I regarded the lowings of my stock when I was in the droving business.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

And the hot fierie smothe [30] in the wide lowings [31] dies.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

A very pandemonium of sounds saluted our ears as we emerged from the forest -- lowings and roarings and shriekings of fighting cattle, wild hoots from hoarse masculine throats, the shrill tones of a woman's angry voice, the discordant notes of an accordion, the shuffle of heavy dancing feet.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

So the children went the length of the great red barn, and gradually the restless lowings quieted as pail after pail was filled with warm white milk.

Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922