15 examples of owl-like in sentences

"I haf come to be undisturbed," announced the doctor, with owl-like, Teutonic gravity, "and I will not be disturbed.

But," said Psmith solemnly, fixing an owl-like gaze on Mike through the eyeglass, "it was not to be.

Several big books are piled up beneath his chair, and, if I mistake not, he holds a volume in his hand, thus blinking forth at the world out of his learned abstraction, owl-like, yet benevolent at heart.

In that darkness you would think that eyes would be of no use, but some of the deep-sea fish have great black owl-like eyes.

Many who have "plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.

It was extremely ludicrous, when he was fed in the day time, to see the animal standing, perched up perpendicularly on his two thin legs with his bare tail, and turning his large headround as a ball, and with very large, yellow, owl-like eyesin every direction, looking like a dark lantern on a pedestal with a circular swivel.

" Dick could only laugh, for any allusion to the feast instantly brought back that owl-like gourmand to whom he was so deeply indebted.

They gave an owl-like look to him, an air of omniscience.

For an instant the little great man stood with wide, owl-like eyes, staring at the face on the pillow.

She has thrown her young affections away upon that owl-like nondescript who has been doing her portrait.

Marsh Hawk, where and how do you live?" The Marsh Hawk was nineteen inches in length, with a long tail, pointed wings, and Owl-like face.

It may be one chance in a million; but God favors the brave, and you have no chance if you remain perched owl-like upon this wilderness of rock.

And could he summon me, unfeelingly, Before this board of owl-like judges, chanting Their litanies of bullets and the grave, Did he not purpose with a sovereign word To step into their circle like a god?

These owl-like worthies sat solemnly on the platform for awhile, saying no more than the ugly fowls they so much resembled, and then stalked out, leaving me to my fate.

A long grey beard, a pair of piercing owl-like eyes and large bare feet, mark "Prophet" Kemp among the citizenry of Daytona Beach, Florida.

15 examples of  owl-like  in sentences