Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
Sinónimos
Examples for "owl"
Examples for "owl"
1Thank you for coming in our hour of need, the owl whispered.
2The sun had set; an owl began to hoot in the wood.
3Yet the owl's words had pierced her, inscribed knowledge on her heart.
4Thunder growled in the distance; an owl hooted in the Pieman's tree.
5She wanted to know more about the owl and asked Rocket questions.
1The hooter sounds for the first wave of swimmers, then the second.
2My big hooter has been broken many times and needs a fix.
3A naked hooter queen with that beach movie expression of sizzling intellect.
4You may say the hooter is THE cause of their leaving.
5At 3pm the hooter sounded and we all plunged into the icy water.
1This is the call of the Common Owl, the meditative bird of Minerva.
2If the owl is the bird of Minerva, the cat should be her beast; they have the same sleepy air of unfathomable wisdom.
1Frequently a huge bat or bird of night flitted by.
2This is the bird of night, singing to its young!
3Then, like a bird of night on silent wings, came this walking in his sleep.
4Casca dwells especially on the ' bird of night.'
5Along the shore of the sleeping lake our engine swept like a great, black, wingless bird of night.
6While I was talking with For, the bird of night had indeed furtively spread its black wings over Avendoom.
8The bird of night makes its ill-omened sound;
9No gurgle along the shore: no splash against the great logs that made the wharf; no bird of night calling to its mate.
10A deep, brooding shadow was on her heart, though she could not see the bird of night from whose wings it had fallen.
11Numerous species of the goatsucker, well known as the bird of night, inhabit the forests of the Amazon as well as the settled districts.
12Clouds obscured the stars; not a sound was to be heard, except the voice of some bird of night, which came from a distance.
13As he looked he saw La Meffraye come to the door and set her face within, like some bird of night, hideous and foul.
14Poor injured little bird of night, how sadly hast thou suffered, and how foul a stain has inattention to facts put upon thy character!
15They had no fancy to be left in the darkness with the bird of night and the "dried spirits" of the ancient cliff dwellers.
16Like three birds of night and omen, these three evil natures settled on the rich man's roof.
Translations for bird of night