They held up their bloodless faces in the faint sunshine, and their eyes, with the pupils enlarged by the long reign of night, blinked feebly, like an owl's forced to face the morning.

And he winked and blinked at stout Friar Tuck like an owl at the sun.

I looked at that cot, these two handsome, happy young people, and at myself, my disordered hair and clothes, my boots covered with mud, gloomy thoughts in my mind, and I felt like an owl in a nest of nightingales.

It is rather Thánatos who is dazzled and blinded by Apollo, like an owl or bat in the sunlight.

So now's the time that I would gladly meet These madding Senses that abus'd me thus; What, haunt me like an owl?

My clearest memory is of that Arabsilent, stolid, staring like an owl straight forward most of the timebut a perfect marvel in emergencies, when he would suddenly spring to life, swear a living streak of brimstone blasphemy in high falsetto, and perform a driver's miracle.

In the court he stands for a cipher, and among ladies like an owl among birds.

He sets out his feathers like an owl, to swell and seem bigger than he is.

When it was quite dark he commenced hooting like an owl, having previously transformed himself into one.

It was a reply to "The Appeal to the Dead," that Barrès, like an owl perched on a cypress in a graveyard, had wailed forth.

Merodach-Baladan heard of the approach of my expedition, dreading the terror of his own warriors, he fled before it, and flew in the night time like an owl, falling back from Babylon, to the town of Ikbibel.

In rocky hollows and in caverns drear, Why like an owl sit moping here?

He sets out his feathers like an owl, to swell and seem bigger than he is.

But the villain sits there on his horse, rolling his goggle-eyes like an owl, and grinning.

"We've got a Chinese cook who's more like an owl than a human.

Another time thieves tried to get into her house at night, knowing that she was alone like an owl in the house.

Bitterly did Captain Trebizondi regret his constant insistence upon the fact that he was senior Captainfor he was given command of "A" Company, the post of honour and danger in front of all, and was implored to "pull it through" and not to stand staring like an owl when the Colonel said the battalion would advance; or turn to the left when he shouted "In succession advance in fours from the right of Companies".

" She was filled with a secret elation and went about the house singing like a lark, until Betty, who had been moping like an owl since her mother went to the hospital, was quite cheered up.

It does not build its nest on the ground, like most others of its family, but in a tree hole, like an Owl or a Woodpecker.

When the lover arrives at dawn, having failed to come in the night, the girl (another nayika, 'one who has been deceived') upbraids Krishna for wandering about like a crow, picking up worthless grains of rice, wasting his hours in bad company and ruining houses by squatting in them like an owl.

Beneath the gnarled old Knowledge-tree Sat, like an owl, the evil sage: 'The World's a bubble,' solemnly He read, and turned a second page.

It's this long bother with his eyes that has made him look like an owl, and feel like one.

Don't yuh know it's morning?" Dill sat up and blinked, much like an owl in the sunshine.

I am blinking like an owl in daylight!so you never came to see us, after all!"