barn-owl

It startled Jack horribly and made Kiki screech like a barn-owl!

The Circus of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

One owl, a barn-owl, had screeched deafeningly in his ear, and had struck him with a wing.

The Circus of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

The chairman, a large white barn-owl, gave the casting vote, declining to accept the affirmation.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

'It was nothing, 'replied her eldest sister;' it was only the screech of the barn-owl that roosts in one of the turrets of the castle. '

Red Fairy Book 1890

The chairman, a large white barn-owl, gave the casting vote, declining to accept the affirmation.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Elbert Hubbard 1885

The barn-owl is the commonest kind; and I have watched one sitting in a hole in a tree, looking like a little gray cat, with one eye shut and the other open.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

Horned owls are becoming rare; even the barn-owl has all but disappeared from some districts, and the wood-owl is local.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

The barn-owl is the commonest kind; and I have watched one sitting in a hole in a tree, looking like a little gray cat, with one eye shut and the other open.

Little Men Louisa May Alcott 1860

We took to 'em ez nat'ral ez a barn-owl doos to mice,

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

In the higher classes there are less doubts; though we find considerable difficulty in ascertaining what deserve to be called species amongst foxes and wolves, and in some birds, for instance in the case of the white barn-owl.

The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845