Usage of "an old owl"

Poem by Nima Yushij.

Uso de an old owl em inglês

Away up in the back corner of the attic sat an old owl. 
 Buffalo Roost / A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association B... 

This is the simple explanation, which anybody but an old owl like the Prime Minister- 
 'That Very Mab' 

Tell us all about the lost Prince. Then an old owl, not Glimfeather, related the story. 
 The silver chair 

The first place he came to was an old hollow stump, where an old owl had once lived. 
 Uncle Wiggily's Travels 

So Billy Bunny took the Luckymobile around to the barn, and just then an old owl began to toot: 
 Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog 

I am an old owl. 
 Jean-Christophe Journey's End 

He sat looking at me like an old owl, and finally took my glass and sipped a little from it. 
 Vandemark's Folly 

But what was the use of a young man's pretending to know anything in the presence of an old owl? 
 The Poet at the Breakfast-Table 

Foster, blinking like an old owl, came to the door and, without a word, led the way into his untidy room. 
 The Cathedral: A Novel 

He was pretty sick at having to go down; looked as glum as an old owl for the rest of the morning. 
 Betty Trevor 

"Thiccy man sitting there stormin' like an old owl in a tree." 
 Fortitude 

An old owl in a hollow tree asked us again and again who we were; all else was silent in the woods. 
 Hunting with the Bow & Arrow 

" An old owl kept askin' us questions about who was it," added Sue, "an' we couldn't sleep. 
 Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on an Auto Tour 

"In repose he looks like an old owl, and when he speaks he makes me think of a melancholy and discursive schoolmaster." 
 Down There 

Significados de an old owl em inglês