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  • Oh, my, no! He joined right in with the Crows, calling Hooty all sorts of bad names and flying about just out of reach in the most impudent way.

    Mother West Wind "How" Stories Harrison Cady 1919

  • Serra's defense in the 1990 retrial of Patrick "Hooty" Croy, a Siskiyou County

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Perhaps they are genuine, but I suspect that the entries at a student address in Southampton, including Hooty McBoob and Gailord Focker, while not evidence of sinister malpractice, are not.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Perhaps they are genuine, but I suspect that the entries at a student address in Southampton, including Hooty McBoob and Gailord Focker, while not evidence of sinister malpractice, are not.

    Commons debate on electoral integrity 2005

  • (I remember so well that Jay McShann's band was playing, because his vocalist was later my close friend, Walter Brown, the one who used to sing "Hooty Hooty Blues.")

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • Way over in the middle of it he heard the hunting-call of Hooty the Owl.

    The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat 1919

  • It was just the hour when Hooty likes best to hunt.

    The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer Harrison Cady 1919

  • So they had nothing to fear from any one save Hooty the Owl.

    The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer Harrison Cady 1919

  • "Perfectly," spoke up Jerry Muskrat, who had been listening from the top of the Big Rock, where he was lunching on a clam, "unless you are not smart enough to keep out of the clutches of Reddy Fox or Old Man Coyote or Hooty the Owl or Redtail the Hawk."

    The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack 1919

  • Paddy wasn't afraid of Hooty or of Reddy Fox, but Bowser's great voice was new to him, and somehow the very sound of it made him afraid.

    The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat 1919

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