But since that time, when I have seen an owl, even a barn owl, or a great horned owl, swiftly cross the sky in the darkness of night, I have felt that I could accompany it, in imagination, on its secret quest.

One by one the mysteries of life were unfolded to himthe mating-night chortle of the gray owl, the crash of a falling tree, the roll of thunder, the rush of running water, the scream of a fisher-cat, the mooing of the cow moose, and the distant call of his tribe.

the Boy would ask, having had his disappointments ere now in moments of hunger for fresh meat, when Mac, with the nearest approach to enthusiasm he permitted himself, had brought in some miserable little hawk-owl or a three-toed woodpecker to add, not to the larder, but to the "collection.

Kookooskoos, koo-koo-skoos', the great horned owl.

Rowland watched it all absently, meditatively; as he would have watched the movement of a coyote or a prairie owl, for the simple reason that it was the only visible object endowed with life, and instinctively life responds to life.

The lady owl she sent to Flammea, the steeple-owl, who lived in Lund cathedral, with a commission which was so secret that Akka only dared to confide it to her in a whisper.

During the two days that our route lay through this town, we made many attempts to capture one of the little fellows; but they cleverly evaded all the snares set for them, invariably dodged at the flash of our pistols, chattering away as lively as ever, while the little brown owls and rattlesnakes that shared their houses with them fell frequent victims to the boys' rifles.

The fierce-eyed owl did on them scowl, The bat played round on leathern wing, The coal-black wolf did at them howl, The coal-black raven did croak and sing, And o'er them flap his dusky wing.

The alligators were larger; but the white-faced owls were unchangedunless perhaps a little wiser, a little more instructed in the oldest secrets of an old, secretive world.

"It's an owl!" said Hinpoha in amazement, "a snowy owl!

Mohawk blind like owl!"

The grave owl is sitting upright, and meditating in the sun, with a keen-sighted sparrow perched between his ears trying to open the eyes of the sleepy owl with its sharp bill.

Fellow-musicians, we are sorry that it hath been your ill-hap to have had us in your company, that are nothing but screech-owls and night-ravens, able to mar the purest melody: and, besides, our company is so ominous that, where we are, thence liberality is packing.

I would exclude the eared owls, whose ears are a mere sport of fashion, like the hideous imitations of birds' wings which ladies stick on their hats.

Miller took out his little pet owl Moses, from the basket in which Moses dwelt, and gave him food and water.

"Girls, what have I founda squirrel?" "Plain owl," laughed Betty.

JOE went to camp meetin' last week, and, I am pained to say it, JOSEF got drunker than a biled owl.

The grave owl is sitting upright, and meditating in the sun, with a keen-sighted sparrow perched between his ears trying to open the eyes of the sleepy owl with its sharp bill.

Two formal owls together sat, Conferring thus in solemn chat: 'How is the modern taste decayed!

They're not made for friendshipthose owls.

" M. Bartin, also oblivious of the proprieties, retorted, louder still: "And what are you but an infernal screech owl?" Cries of "Hallo!"

The cry of the lone screech-owl below me in the swamp sounded but familiar and appropriate.

" "And, on her palace top, The lonely owl with oft repeated scream Complains, and spins into a dismal length Her baleful shrieks.

"'Tis only the ill-mannered owl that makes game of meif" "Sh!

From swamp and foliage the voices of the night fill the balmy air with quavering wailings, punctured by the occasional screams of wild-cats and hootings of the melancholy owls.