blowing

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But not with soft whinnyings of horses or lowings of cows.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

Here she stood still and lifted her broad forehead to the sky, filling the air with her lowings.

From Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin

The poor cattle presented a most deplorable appearance, wandering about as they did in search of food and water, and expressing their urgent wants, by faint, melancholy lowings.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

The quadrupeds too, whose cries and lowings during the storm had already testified to their misery, were found to have suffered severely.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The little songsters of the grove were paying their tributes of praise in melodious strains; the bleatings of the lambs, and the lowings of the milky mothers re-echoed from the vallies.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton