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  • We continued on our walk until we spotted the sleepy owl's sibling.

    Guess Who Spotted an Owl Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • The rat in the owl's mouth has a special meaning: At the time, Dr. Luce-Clausen was experimenting with rats at the University of Rochester in upstate New York.

    The Fine Art of Saying 'It's My Book' 2011

  • The rat in the owl's mouth has a special meaning: At the time, Dr. Luce-Clausen was experimenting with rats at the University of Rochester in upstate New York.

    The Fine Art of Saying 'It's My Book' 2011

  • You could have knocked me over with an owl's quill.

    Chapter Two: Oracle W.F. Lantry 2012

  • Yale University Press The rat in the owl's mouth has a special meaning.

    The Fine Art of Saying 'It's My Book' 2011

  • The puppetry is rudimentary, but Kyd's deadpan delivery of the owl's wisdom is not: It's extra dry, almost mocking and ironic.

    Taffety Punk's 'Owl Moon': Many phases but few are a hoot Nelson Pressley 2011

  • He said there may be several factors behind the owl's fate beyond recent habitat loss.

    Struggling Owls Face New Threat From Development Justin Scheck 2011

  • Say the flit of owl's wings on the wall makes it look as if she's going to grab you by the neck.

    Bedwetter James Claffey 2012

  • The author pursed his lips, then emitted a soft, resonant, self-confident sound—something between a whistle and a hoot—that evoked the nocturnal pine/oak woods of the Western U.S. that is the owl's natural habitat.

    Birds on the Brain Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • The owl's cry that Thomas hears cannot be escaped; for Spencer, never to escape the fact of suffering is to "always think of winter, winter like a hammering rhyme / For then everything is drowned by the rising wind, everything is done against Time" – itself a reference to Thomas's "Out in the Dark", with its key word "drowned" and its hammering mono-rhymes.

    Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer – review 2011

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