owle

When there is nothing moving in heaven except the owle, as he flappeth along lazily; or the magician, as he rides on his infernal broomsticke, whistling through the aire like the arrowes of a

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

So it happend, that as thei wenten serchinge, toward the place that the emperour was, thei saughe an owle sittynge upon a tree aboven hym; and than thei seyden amonges hem, that there was no man, be cause that thei saughe that brid there: and to thei wenten hire wey; and thus escaped the emperour from dethe.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And therfore princypally aboven alle foules of world, thei worschipen the owle: and whan thei han ony of here fedres, thei kepen hem fulle precyously, in stede of relykes, and beren hem upon here hedes with gret reverence: and thei holden hem self blessed and saf from alle periles, while that thei han hem upon hem; and therfore thei beren here fedres upon here hedes.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

An owle there is of very a great bignesse more vgly to behold then the owles of this country, with a broad face, and eares much like vnto

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And therfore princypally aboven alle foules of world, thei worschipen the owle: and whan thei han ony of here fedres, thei kepen hem fulle precyously, in stede of relykes, and beren hem upon here hedes with gret reverence: and thei holden hem self blessed and saf from alle periles, while that thei han hem upon hem; and therfore thei beren here fedres upon here hedes.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

So it happend, that as thei wenten serchinge, toward the place that the emperour was, thei saughe an owle sittynge upon a tree aboven hym; and than thei seyden amonges hem, that there was no man, be cause that thei saughe that brid there: and to thei wenten hire wey; and thus escaped the emperour from dethe.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

_Dissimilitude_ as _Similitude_, likening himselfe (by _Implication_) to the flie, and neither to the eagle nor to the owle: very well Englished by

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Didn't I tell ye, Larry, not to be afther ringin 'at the owle gintleman's knocker?

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

To thy friends slaughters like a scrich-owle sing,

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

Gray speaks of "moping" owls; Chatterton exclaims, "Harke! the dethe owle loude dothe synge"; whilst Hogarth introduces the same bird in the murder scene of his _Four Stages of Cruelty_.

Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Elliott O'Donnell 1918