Crowly

[Although we can thus write of a crow's voice with the pen of levity, we are still sorry when we think that that crowly organ is never ... bird.]

Noisy music drifted out of the screened window of the bar, but under it I could hear the crickets and the repetitions of a whippoorwill and under that again the crowly croaking of the bullfrogs in the reeds along the water's edge.

Because the crow's ear is faster than ours, it maybe that the crow hears its own sounds not as continuous low-pitched sounds but as more or less rapid trains of ... Sometimes different kinds of caws stand for different kinds of crowly “concerns.”