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Definition:mooing
painting: by Constant Troyon, scratching cow, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69468020gratuitious sound file: by tdes, license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/https://www.freesound.org/people/tdes/sounds/126358/ (original chopped and converted to mp3 to reduce file size)
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In the distance cattle moved about; neither their steps nor their lowing could be heard;
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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a blast of winter air came in, thick with the lowing of cattle and yelling of men.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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The cattle lowed from hunger,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten)
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The Texas bull began to low. He was across the herd, in the shadows, but in the still air his lowing carried far across the little valley,
Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove (1985)
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it stopped lowing. It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer,
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.370 (1970)
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