hoot-owl

It reminded me of the great hoot-owl, listening, after its booming cry, for the stir of its frightened prey.

Chapter 35 2010

He passed into the shadows of the trees and dense underbrush and walked across the dry creek-bed, noting absently that neither whippoorwill nor hoot-owl called in the darkness.

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

A hoot-owl screeched at mournful intervals, and the night sounds would have tried a city lad's nerves in that long dark stretch that led him finally to the station.

Betty Gordon in Washington Alice B. Emerson

The gabble of geese is music to the goose; the hoot of the hoot-owl is lovlier to his mate than the nightingale's lay; the concert of Signor "Tomasso Cataleny" and Mademoiselle "Pussy" awakeneth the growling old bachelor from his dreams, and he throweth his boquets of bootjacks and superannuated foot gear.

Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

"I'm boiled like a Tellurian hoot-owl," he announced, still happily.

Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

Then from the depths of the forest suddenly boomed the cry of the hoot-owl.

The Gun-Brand 1921

Mr. Stott was indebted to him for an experience which relegated the Florida hoot-owl to the background, though the thrill of the adventure was so intermingled with anguish that it was impossible to tell where one left off and the other began.

The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

Mr. Stott lingered to regale Pinkey and Wallie for the fourteenth time with the story of the hoot-owl which had frightened him while hunting in

The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

She goes 'bout the lake doin 'nothin' but hollerin 'like a hoot-owl, and she don't have enough to eat.

From the Valley of the Missing Grace Miller White 1912

The distant sound of a hoot-owl startled Flea from her tears.

From the Valley of the Missing Grace Miller White 1912