| 单词 | owlish |
| 例句 | They sat deep in his little face and completely dominated the other features with a roundness which seemed to be outlined in dark pencil, giving him an owlish appearance. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a short boy, with a round face, dark hair, owlish glasses, and a very Semitic nose. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They wear glasses, round owlish ones, and they don’t always look at you straight on. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His eyes were wide and owlish, his lips working like pale grubs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My sister screamed hysterically and flailed her arms as her owlish eyes searched wildly about the kitchen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were wide and gloomy behind his owlish glasses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She continued to study me behind glasses that seemed to make her eyes big and owlish and full of expectation. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Hale, who had an owlish face, stiff black hair, and small, alert eyes set in shaded hollows, had settled on the reservation nearly two decades earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The wife of an Italian physicist used to watch him march slowly past their window, his pale, owlish face turned down toward the muddy path. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay for a moment, blinking in owlish incomprehension at the light; then suddenly remembered—everything. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z One brownstone was rotund—like a jolly, well-fed grandfather—with a curved facade and decorative curlicues above round, owlish windows. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z His single accessory: a pair of owlish spectacles he acquired on a recent trip to Japan. New York Fashion Week’s Under-the-Radar Talents 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Groening, his eyes behind owlish glasses, has gray hair, which was parted in a style that recalled Bart Simpson’s at church. Groening and Barry Take New York 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Not all of Cate’s friends welcome him with open paws — put off by his owlish tendencies, some call him a freak. Margaret Atwood brings back 'Angel Catbird' and looks ahead to 'The Handmaid's Tale' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Cox was stockily built, with an owlish face accentuated by glasses. Oliver Cox obituary 2010-06-02T17:49:00Z Steely though soft-spoken, enigmatic to the point of appearing to be a cipher, dressed in trademark double-breasted bespoke suits and owlish eyeglasses made from buffalo horn, Mr. Deitch was a kind of art-world Zelig. Jeffrey Deitch Faces Critics at MOCA 2012-10-19T23:10:54Z In “Marshall,” instead of bearing down on the man’s owlish brilliance, Boseman turned the concept of what’s actionable into physical action. It’s Hard to Make Dignity Interesting. Chadwick Boseman Found a Way. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z "There's this ambiguity to the owlish person pushing the pram," Watts said. Object Lesson: Two images, two photography roads taken 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z He’s a big, slow-moving man, with an owlish face, an unruly spray of hair and eyebrows like tumbleweeds. Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Xu, a soft-spoken, owlish academic with round glasses and feathery hair, is a prominent figure in China’s top art institute. Art: Xu Bing: An Artist Who Bridges East and West 2011-05-19T11:30:06Z Tennant, with cigarette in hand, wine bottle at the ready, colorful tie, cream-colored suit, brilliantined hair and owlish eyes veiled by lenses, is the ultimate dandy. Z. Vanessa Helder: a Northwest artist rediscovered at Tacoma Art Museum 2013-09-08T14:16:08Z Tom, instantly recognisable from the film – owlish glasses, sweet face, loping gait – hurries past with a mischievous smile. One fan's mission to Lars 2012-06-02T22:01:47Z Exposure to light at night makes us more owlish, so we feel sleepy later. How modern life gets in the way of sleep 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Simultaneously, and smoothly, she slips on a pair of owlish glasses and begins chewing on the pencil she’s just pulled from her purse. Review: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates May Not Be Progressive—Is It Still OK to Laugh? 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In The Moon, for instance, it takes a few moments to register the huge, owlish eyes very faintly incised in the shadowy surface of the painting, eyes that stare sightlessly back at you. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z This man — thin, tall and youthful at 48, his expression owlish behind heavy eyeglasses — will be wearing a boyish suit created by his partner, the designer Thom Browne. At the Met, Andrew Bolton Is the Storyteller in Chief 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Photograph: Sally Soames And lo! as the crisis of Wapping, politicians and cops grows ever more frenetic, along comes an owlish octogenarian in a woolly cardigan recalling the genteel calm of times and Times past. Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg - review 2011-07-13T15:00:02Z Meanwhile, Hockney looks owlish and neat in round glasses as he tints the coiffure of a male portrait a shade darker with a small brush. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z When you talk, he cups his face in concentration, creating an owlish effect. Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z The result, a soundtrack for American machismo performed by an owlish artist-geek, was weirdly concentrated and hilarious. 2010-01-08T04:33:00Z Ms. Jacobs was a tall, owlish, arresting presence. Review: It’s Jane Jacobs’s World We Live In 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, Mr. Hockey was easy to recognize, a boyish figure with an apple-round face, a mop of blond hair, and his trademark owlish glasses. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z High school was a trial for a lanky boy with close-cropped hair and a fondness for owlish shades. 2010-02-13T02:22:00Z A cattleman with owlish glasses and a pinched smile, the real Hale had nurtured such close relations with the local Native American population that he was revered, Grann writes, “as King of the Osage Hills.” ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Premieres at Cannes: First Reaction 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Guinness played le Carré’s frequent hero George Smiley: an owlish, soft-spoken, pathologically British intelligence chief whose nose for treachery is keen — developed in part, perhaps, by the experience of his wife’s serial infidelity. ‘The Night Manager’ Brings John le Carré Back to the Small Screen 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Oldman steers clear of Guinness’s style in the part, though he does swap his rather natty designer spectacles for a more owlish pair, as though in homage to his distinguished forerunner. Film: Passionate Tales of Lost Identities 2011-09-08T12:30:07Z Another figure stumbles into view now, in customary camouflage — dark suit, face obscured beneath owlish glasses and thick mustache — another virtuoso of the necessary economies that allow the imagination to flourish. ‘Pessoa’ Is the Definitive and Sublime Life of a Genius and His Many Alternate Selves 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Stubbs herself, in her owlish glasses and beret, was enthusiastic enough for the both of us. Who Do You Think You Are?; The Cafe – TV review 2013-07-25T06:00:05Z His owlish appearance and authoritative style suggested a man who knew his own mind on everything and would hold to his opinions with tenacity. Journalist William Rees-Mogg dies 2012-12-29T16:14:09Z Sitting in his standard-issue uniform of crisp white cotton shirt tucked into khakis, his face adorned with an owlish pair of black-rimmed glasses, he looks fit at 78. ‘You know, I’m never happy’: Woody Allen discusses new ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ Mr. Levy, in particular, is as funny as ever, working his owlish outrage and bringing his meticulous, authentic approach to his portrayal of the patriarch, Johnny Rose. Review: In ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ a Spoiled Little Rich Family Starts Over 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z The film emerges as an unlikely star turn for Oldman, who lets us see Smiley ever-thinking, and whose face with its owlish glasses becomes the movie's still point. 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' dark and alluring 2011-12-22T22:05:53Z And when deploying adaptation clips, the filmmaker wisely sticks to Alec Guinness’ perfectly owlish Smiley. Review: 'The Pigeon Tunnel' is spy versus spy, as clever documentarian meets cagey novelist 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Short and thick-bodied, dressed in a bespoke suit and round, owlish glasses, Leo looked like a character from an Agatha Christie mystery. We don’t talk about Leonard: The man behind the right’s Supreme Court supermajority 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Nellie is a “short, owlish woman. … almost dwarfed by the enormous bouquet of white lilies and pink roses that was thrust into her arms.” Kate Atkinson dazzles with ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Portly and owlish in oversize glasses, Jiang was an ebullient figure who played the piano and enjoyed singing, in contrast to his more reserved successors, Hu and Xi. Jiang Zemin, China’s former leader who led his nation’s rise, dies 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z He has lank hair to his shoulders and owlish glasses; he looks like he might start shaving in a year or two. Opinion | Escape from Russia: A young college student tells his tale 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z In the painting, enormous, swooping silhouettes of owlish birds, one green and the other blue, each with wings spread wide, are creatures that display both menace and freedom. Review: In a must-see L.A. show, painter Bob Thompson uses art history to consider social injustice 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z In a white-tipped beard, thick owlish glasses and a light blue flannel button-down over a black T-shirt imprinted with the Medal of Saint Benedict, he looked like an aging hipster. How the American Right Fell in Love With Hungary 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z To the bombastic Boss, Dr. Budig was a baseball outsider — small in stature, owlish in appearance, exceedingly soft-spoken — who belonged more in a college classroom than in sports. Gene Budig, last president of baseball’s American League, dies at 81 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z To the bombastic Boss, the outsider — small in stature, owlish in appearance, exceedingly soft-spoken — belonged more in school than in sports. Gene Budig, academic who ran American League, dies at 81 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Born in Nebraska and now in his early 60s, this lugubrious, crumpled, owlish man has “won at the game of academia”, said Candida Moss, professor of theology at Birmingham University. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The white-haired Stevens, eyes often twinkling behind owlish glasses, was the picture of old-fashioned geniality on the court and off. John Paul Stevens evolved into Supreme Court’s liberal lion 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z The white-haired Stevens, eyes often twinkling behind owlish glasses, was the picture of old-fashioned geniality on the court and off. John Paul Stevens evolved into Supreme Court’s liberal lion 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Now 80, his thin white hair replacing the boyish mane and narrow readers replacing his owlish spectacles of yore, Dean slouched over the witness table, connecting dots from the Watergate Hotel to Trump Tower. Opinion | This is worse than Watergate 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z A man in owlish glasses sat between us. Venezuela’s Two Presidents Collide 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Looking over the rims of his owlish glasses, Binney replied, “Oh, really?” Thomas Drake vs. the N.S.A. 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z His writing, admirers said, matured into literature: an owlish wit, sometimes surreal, often absurdist, usually scouring dark corridors of paradox, always carried off with a subtext of good sense. Russell Baker, Times Columnist and Celebrated Humorist, Dies at 93 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z His thick eyebrows, round spectacles and sprays of white and gray hair give his face a vaguely owlish appearance. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z In fact, she asked serious questions about the land and the cottage, the drainage, and she did so with an air of owlish inquiry. Fiction by Kevin Barry: “The Coast of Leitrim” 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z We were sitting at Morton’s, the venerable Washington steakhouse, where Leo, an owlish man in his 50s who wears a pocket watch, keeps a wine locker. How the Trump Administration Is Remaking the Courts 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z As the owlish executive vice-president of the Federalist Society, Leo has quietly become one of the Washington’s most influential people. The anti-abortion conservative quietly guiding Trump's supreme court pick 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Blake, who is three minutes older than Blaine, has a few more strands of gray hair and wears his owlish glasses perched on the tip of his nose. The unlikely story of the meteorite feud that ended up a fugitive from the law 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Kim shook hands to concede defeat, then took off her iconic owlish glasses and wiped tears away from her eyes. Sweden pickles Korea’s ‘Garlic Girls’ for curling gold 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The memory that persists though, is the owlish whiz-kid lawyer, with horn-rimmed glasses and his pretty blond wife perched stoically behind him, laying out Nixon’s treachery in a dull monotone before the Senate Watergate Committee. He helped bring down Richard Nixon. Now he thinks Donald Trump is even worse. 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The despotic city planner hadn’t counted on the determination of the mothers in question, or the ferocity of their leader – an owlish stenographer and freelance journalist by the name of Jane Jacobs. Street fighter: how Jane Jacobs saved New York from Bulldozer Bob 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The dean of conservative pundits, now 75, wore a crisp pinstripe shirt and gray slacks, his customary owlish Mona Lisa expression a bit tighter than usual, owing to the subject matter. How Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z He had a barrel chest and hairy forearms, fierce blue eyes, and an owlish head, tufted with gray and white. The Long Dig 2008-09-15T04:00:00Z I recall sitting there as Starr, his blue eyes owlish, his skin pink and dimpled, sat before Congress and in a sonorous I-say-this-more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger tone, pounced light as a cat on a scalawag president. At Baylor, Charity Toward Kenneth Starr Follows Outrage 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Wearing large, owlish eyeglasses, he was a smartly tailored dresser who affected a near-British accent as he spoke wistfully of his decision to forgo a career as a literature professor. John Gutfreund, Who Ran Salomon Brothers at Its Apex, Is Dead at 86 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z To Hispanic fans the Clintons are family, praised for ties stretching back to 1972, when an owlish Hillary Rodham helped register Mexican-American voters in the wilds of south Texas. A Latino firewall totters 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Ingredients: outsize, owlish black specs; red lipstick, a really, really jazzy coat and as many boulder-sized bauble necklaces and clanking plastic bangles as you can pile on. Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian and Cecil the lion: the ultimate 2015 Halloween costumes 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The owlish, avuncular-seeming Mr. Howe was not a riveting public debater. Geoffrey Howe, treasury chief under Margaret Thatcher, dies at 88 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z In a half-century in public life, Mr. Howe was one of Britain’s best-known leaders, an owlish, low-key Tory who came of age in a postwar era of strikes, unemployment and inflation. Geoffrey Howe, Cabinet Minister Who Hastened Thatcher’s Fall, Dies at 88 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Joseph Alsop, the Post’s owlish, irascible, and closeted columnist, also recommended Dillon to Kennedy, but, as the years went on, his advice developed a particular doctrinal urgency. The Journalist Who Was His Own Inside Source 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z An elegant woman with a cherubic face, owlish glasses and a preference for Christian Dior suits, Ms. Zhou is fastidious and demanding — “sit up straight!” she commands of a general manager during a meeting. How a Chinese Billionaire Built Her Fortune 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Behind you, but out of sight, a small owlish gentleman with a thick central European accent asks you questions about your parents. How this couch changed everything - BBC News 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He’s thirty-seven years old but looks younger, a thin man with buzz-cut hair and owlish glasses. Travels with My Censor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z In our area, they often revert to more respectable, owlish hours. Amid Urban Debris, the Snowy Owl Is a Wintertime Ghost 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z I dropped in the other day on James Heckman, an owlish University of Chicago professor and Nobel Prize-winning economist who is the leading scholarly advocate of early interventions. If politicians love kids, they would invest in early education 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z A late-fiftysomething, squint-eyed behind owlish spectacles, managerially dressed—Schmidt’s dour appearance concealed a machinelike analyticity. Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems The man widely viewed as one of the most influential people in Raleigh has an owlish, slightly rumpled demeanor, resembling a state bureaucrat more than a wealthy power broker. In N.C., conservative donor Art Pope sits at heart of government he helped transform A quick-witted fellow with owlish eyes, Mr. Merritt lived in an ethical netherworld. Takeover of Kenmore Hotel: Informer Recalls His Complicity 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z But amid the technical and the spectacle, the owlish adolescents under the lights aren’t that different from their orthographic ancestors who lined up at the front of prairie schoolhouses where spelling bees were born. Former champions swarm National Spelling Bee An owlish, soft-spoken backroom dealmaker, he inspires little passion among his supporters. The mid-term elections: Can the Republicans win the Senate? 2014-03-13T16:00:43Z At 47, the cautious and cerebral Ms. Nunn is every bit her father’s daughter, down to her owlish glasses and centrist message about curing dysfunction in Washington. Familiar Name Tries to Reverse Democrats’ Slide in Georgia 2014-01-24T19:31:30Z Taking his seat in a stiff-backed chair, he looked more nervous than I was, his eyes darting around behind black, owlish glasses. The Global Elite’s Favorite Strongman 2013-09-04T09:00:01Z Mr. McConnell may look mild-mannered in his owlish eyeglasses, but he has a sharp attacking style and astute political instincts that have preserved his Senate seat for about 30 years and his role in leadership. Kentucky Political Staple: Barbs and Barbecue 2013-08-05T01:52:25Z After lunch, I go to see the PAC in action quizzing William Nye, an owlish aide of the Prince of Wales, about the tax affairs of the Duchy of Cornwall. Margaret Hodge: 'I don't want scalps, I want to get at the truth' 2013-07-20T23:05:36Z Gee, a familiar figure on campus with his bowties and owlish glasses, has repeatedly gotten in trouble over the years for verbal gaffes. Retiring Ohio State president cites age, family 2013-06-05T13:17:10Z A girl with a certain open-eyed, owlish look, good posture, a knack for the Rubik’s Cube. Sarah Braunstein: “Marjorie Lemke.” 2013-03-25T04:00:00Z The actor Josh Malina appears on both Sports Night and The West Wing as an owlish wonk and fact repository with a soul-deep commitment to what is right and true in each show’s context. The Romance of the Professional 2013-01-04T12:59:39Z The glasses of his round owlish spectacles flashed as he moved his head. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z The cry occasionally heard in this country, that the abolition of West India Slavery was intended to be an indirect blow at American republicanism, is the shallow cant of owlish ignorance or demagogical hypocrisy. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The décor, to stretch a definition, is provided mostly by potted plants and by Mr. Schoenfeld’s owlish eyeglasses, color-coordinated with his sweaters. Restaurant Review: RedFarm, in the West Village, Turns Up the Flavors 2012-03-07T03:23:06Z He sat in an overstuffed chair at a party office, the skin around his eyes looking darker and more owlish than ever. Mohamed Beltagy, Egypt?s Human Bellwether 2012-01-19T22:25:10Z "But, young man," said he vaguely, when Micky had finished and sat regarding him with owlish gravity, "what—er—what do you do in your spare time?" The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z But they returned his glances with owlish blinking of their smoke reddened eyes. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z But Mr. Zuccotti, who cuts a judicious, even owlish, figure at 74, is no stranger to gracious hospitality. City Room: John E. Zuccotti Is the Man Behind the Protesters' Park 2011-10-05T11:15:31Z Not the best character actor unhung could have simulated the owlish ignorance in Cash’s face. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z Although simple minded people took Sybille for a witch, nothing in her features recalled those usually ascribed to old women possessed of the evil spirit—hooked nose and chin, cavernous eyes and an owlish aspect. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z No one answered, therefore Zagloba cast around an owlish eye; at last he turned to Basia, "Well, Maybug, will you go with us?" Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Presently the young squaw arose and placed her baby upon the blanket beside the white child where the two little mites sat and stared at each other in owlish solemnity. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z One by one they sat up, owlish with sleep, yet soon clearing their eyes and minds with remembering the business that lay before us. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z They reentered the city as the first owlish lights were peeping out, futile, brave little rebels against the spreading night. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Zawahiri, sporting his trademark turban and owlish glasses, said in the English translation of the videotape, which was aired by al-Jazeera television. New Top Terror Target: Ayman Al-Zawahiri 2011-05-03T04:03:57Z I feel, indeed, that something very ponderous, and solemn, and authoritative, and learned, and wise, and owlish, and erudite, ought to be said. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z We may remember, too, that Cleveland, remote from great thoroughfares, was a nursery of superstitions long after the owlish notions died out from other places. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z He was close to my horse, and kept watching me out of his owlish eyes all the time; so impertinently I could have laid the whip over his shoulders. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z He was an owlish looking creature, but there were garrulous wrinkles about his eyes and lips which determined me to treat him civilly. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z “They may look their owlish eyes out—it matters not to me.” No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The constable—his big owlish head askew—was embarrassed by these manœuvres, and presently the talk drifted to the subject of the parson's spiritual defection. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The Landgravine was led to the ballroom by her partner, an owlish colonel, and the other couples followed. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z “Are these people pagans?” inquired the hero with owlish features, but too strongly indicative of his vacant mind. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z He was close to my horse, and kept watching me out of his owlish eyes, all the time; so impertinently I could have laid the whip over his shoulders. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z "Don't be owlish, Evert; one is even more apt to step into them on a ground-floor," replied the aunt. East Angels And in the night I heard him stop below, His owlish lanthorn's light Blurring the windy snow— How long the time and slow! Shapes and Shadows Then he was talking rapidly, forcefully, and the young flyer gazed with owlish solemnity at Bart as they listened to his conversation. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 He tugged at the owlish tufts of hair over his ears, wrinkling his bald brow up at the enigmatic maze. Pet Farm They were all round and owlish, and they thickened up in middle life. Old Crow Consider the case of the poor owlish man hearing for the first time our diplomatic commonplaces. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) A beard, a pair of round owlish spectacles, and two ridiculous ear-muffs, left only a suggestion of face here and there. Seven Keys to Baldpate I saw one of our sailors staring at the water with strange owlish eyes, and yelled at him: "Into the gig, man!" Wings of the Wind Chadron bent his great owlish brows in a scowl, laid his hand on his revolver and whirled his horse in the direction that Macdonald was facing. The Rustler of Wind River Weirder than the pictures Are the folks who stand Passing owlish strictures, Catalogue in hand. A line-o'-verse or two Mado's owlish look broadened to a knowing grin as he backed into the passageway. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 “That thought might have been in her mind,” assented the Chancellor, “or else she—” He left his sentence unfinished, and sat with unseeing eyes fixed in an owlish stare on the open page of Burke. The Princess Virginia And although Bismarck mocked with sardonic immensity his colleagues, yet with an under-play worthy of the Devil, our Otto proceeded to make these owlish and absurd gentlemen puppets in the hands of Prussia. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck I have looked into your owlish eyes and watched you go flitting over the sand on your thin, stalklike legs? The Man the Martians Made David bethought himself instead of the owlish Mizrachi, his visit to whom had been left unfinished. Ghetto Comedies Astride of it was Wyatt, riding automatically his eyes wide-opened, red-rimmed, owlish with lack of sleep and overmuch bad liquor. Rimrock Trail Dorothy suspected a mystery somewhere; her young ladies had sat up half the night, and looked pale and owlish in the morning. Not Like Other Girls “Quite right, old fellow!” replied Sengoun, giving him an owlish look. The Dark Star The mayor woke up toward five o’clock and stared at me with owlish gravity as though daring me to say that he had been asleep. The Maids of Paradise The hoot is owlish; there are just two things That hiss—one venom-fanged, one graced with wings. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 You want the foot of the Princess Hermonthis,” said the dealer with a strange, mocking laugh, staring at me with his owlish eyes. Humorous Ghost Stories Neefit, hardly speaking above his breath, with that owlish, stolid look, which was always common to him except when he was measuring a man for a pair of breeches, acknowledged that he did. Ralph the Heir The tall secretary stared at her with owlish significance. The Dark Star The most owlish Calvinist commentator in the seventeenth century would ask the Eugenist to reconcile such Bible texts as derided fools with the other Bible texts that praised them. Eugenics and Other Evils Freda smiled at him out of big, owlish eyes that were the same tint as the coppery grey sea upon which the north window of the snuggery looked. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 When Beatrice got home from the party ten minutes before her brother and his wife, Margaret was sitting Turk fashion in the big armchair, with her eyes very wide open and owlish. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 I'm afraid it's time For me to leave this owlish parliament; And I shall probably knock holes in half The windows of the town as I walk home Star-gazingly. Mr. Faust Nobody takes Knickerbocker's History of New York seriously, as owlish historians are wont to take Aristophanes. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 My dear madam," said Grace, striking an owlish attitude, "you have not read the latest opinion expressed by one of the most learned professors in the Allopathic school of medicine in Paris. The Right Knock A Story When the sun rose next morning, Will was still in that state of semi-somnolence which causes the expression of the countenance to become idiotic and the eyes owlish. Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin And Charlie moved around to her side, where he clasped his hands and brought his spectacles to bear upon her with an owlish solemnity. In Blue Creek Cañon A man in the dumb-solemn stage of drunkenness stood regarding his empty glass with owlish fixity. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Then he took the helm of his vessel, and stood with legs very wide apart, an owlish gaze in his eyes, and a look of amazing solemnity on his visage. The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea It was evident also that some parts of the festive libations had been taken in advance, for the head-man had reached the solemnised point of intoxication, and some of his young men the owlish condition. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Still they possessed their share of owlish Ciriimian logic and hit soon enough upon the one practical course—to jettison the Zid on the nearest world demonstrably free of intelligent life. Traders Risk The red-faced one observed her with sudden owlish seriousness. Erik Dorn At no other time had they ever drunk like that, and it made an occasion of it which was increased by the owlish gravity of Daddy. Danger! and Other Stories Ko-ko looked around for the door in a very owlish way, and heaving a short hem from his chest, he acknowledged that he had heard something to that effect down in one of the villages. The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends There was a crash of glass, and Bassett, with his legs apart and the water streaming down his face, stood regarding him with owlish consternation. Salthaven Indeed he was too steady, for the curtains of his eyes suddenly fell, and shut in the owlish glare with which he had been regarding the middy. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story The owlish glasses focused with noncommittal stoicism in its direction. Erik Dorn Jarring gazed after her with an expression of owlish and unutterable surprise on his swarthy countenance. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue The seaman did not move from his semi-recumbent position as he uttered this alarming threat, but he accompanied it with a portentous frown and an owlish wink of both eyes. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan They availed themselves of the invitation to come, and sometimes palavered, but more frequently smoked, with owlish solemnity, squatting on the floor with their backs against the wall. The Big Otter To her remarks he merely replied by a solemn shake of the head and an owlish gaze into the big pot. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood Again the two men glanced at the old woman inquiringly, and again were they baffled by that look of owlish intensity at the stewing meat. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew Then, tearing out the sheet, he mounted the chair and with a face owlish in its affectation of heavy wisdom, he thrust his hand in his blouse in classic barnstorming attitude and read his creation. Terry A Tale of the Hill People He was on the point of rising to investigate this when the sleeper awoke with a start, sat bolt upright with a look of owlish gravity, and presented the features of Jack Molloy. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan He was a small tow-headed boy with big owlish eyes, and Nick knew from experience that they were very likely to see anything he did not do. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Gazing at Daddy, Peegwish fell into an owlish reverie, from which he was aroused by old Liz putting a small sack of barley on the ground before him. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood They looked quickly at Kannoa, but that ancient’s face was absolutely owlish in its gravity, and her little black eyes peered into her pot with a look of intense inquiry that was almost philosophic. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew She struggled to a sitting posture and beamed with owlish significance upon her captors. Grace Harlowe's Problem Pursued and pursuers alike swept by the little figure with the owlish eyes, who had not taken his hands out of his pockets. The Napoleon of Notting Hill I stared with an owlish stare for about five minutes, until her real idea in all its native wildness, not to say enormity, burst upon me. Set in Silver Peegwish opened his owlish eyes and looked so solemn that Victor could scarce forbear laughing, despite the circumstances. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood Presently, however, I caught Tony's eyes, which fixed themselves on mine in an owlish stare. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley Oh! if the ne plus ultra which antique Ignorance complacently inscribes on the gates of its world should ever be worn away, let it be replaced by this owlish credo in the unchangeableness of man. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy She washed the baby in it, and he stared at her all the time, with big, owlish eyes. Fairies and Folk of Ireland He was pale and wore his habitual owlish expression of surprise at seeing the world without looking through his older brother’s eyes. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Lewes's mercurial temperament contributed as much as the powerful mind of his consort to prevent their seclusion from degenerating into an owlish stagnation. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot Mr. Darling, the commander of the guard, counted his men with a waving forefinger, and an expression of owlish gravity on his round face. The Harbor Master They looked at us with commiseration; one of them sweetly, the other with his owlish fixity. Romance In this strain General Feraud ran on, holding up his head with owlish eyes and rapacious beak. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale The Texan looked on in owlish solemnity as the man sat holding the blade helplessly. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country He came across in the Pullman with me from Omaha; middle-aged, tall, and slim, with a hatchet face and owlish eyes. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Then you've General Gordon, Who girded his sword on, To serve with a Muscovite master, And help him to polish A nation so owlish, They thought shaving their beards a disaster. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals Now for the frightful face with mouse's ears, winking owlish eyes streaming with fiendish fire! now for the beak! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 "Pete," said he with owlish gravity, "I begin to see that I have done you an inexcusable injustice." The Day of Days An Extravaganza For the most part they preserved an owlish silence, but now and then someone would break into a low, weird refrain and the others would join in with the mournful strain of "The Dying Cowboy." The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country These have one argument, and only one, For good or evil, earth or jeweled heaven— The olden, owlish argument of doubt. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems For all this vitality and ever-moving activity of mind is shot through by the absolute immobility of two owlish eyes piercing the darkness of spiritual night. Tragic Sense Of Life But the owlish dignity of his age would not let him drop the subject without further explanation. A Man Four-Square Leh Shin, with many owlish blinkings of his narrow eyes, asked Hartley to come inside. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery And you think, and they think, that my solemn and owlish self-suppression is drying me up, squeezing out of me the essence of that warm, lovable humanity in which, they say, my work is deficient. The Common Law For this operation he assumes a pair of large, round spectacles, that in the dimly lighted apartment and its nocturnal associations are highly suggestive of owls and owlish wisdom. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama His tortoise-rimmed glasses gave him an oddly owlish look, like a small boy taking liberties with grandfather's spectacles. Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock She could not know, for instance, if her own gaze was merely owlish and thin-lashed, the challenge of eyes that are slightly too long. The Vertical City He had quite changed his appearance by removing the spectacles, for the owlish touch was gone and he seemed at a stroke ten years younger. The Night Horseman We are lonesome out here, and the Albatross sweeps beside us, hooded like a cobra, an evil creature trying to hoodoo us, with owlish eyes set in a frame like ghastly spectacle glasses. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Even at this unseemly hour we are visited by an owlish pedler, whose boat is fitted up with boxes containing various dishes toothsome to the heathen palates of the water-men. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama His eyebrows were large and beetling, overhanging deep-set eyes, and he wore a pair of spectacles which gave him a somewhat owlish expression. The Mystery of 31 New Inn He was seated in a deep easy-chair; a dressing gown of silk and a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles gave him a look of owlish wisdom, with a touch of the owl's futility of expression, likewise. Ronicky Doone Not even Winona, to whom they were uttered with the air of owlish, head-snapping wisdom which marked so many of the invalid's best things. The Wrong Twin And then we sit in an owlish innocence of our sin, and debate whether the Irish might conceivably succeed in saving Ireland. The Crimes of England He remained thoughtful, disregarding the short, owlish, shabby figure standing by his side. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale But she no sooner touched the ground than up she started to her feet again, with an alarmed look on her owlish face, as if she had sat down on a stinging-nettle. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest That's the sort of owlish way we run our politics in the Old Country. The Thirty-Nine Steps Consider the case of the poor owlish man hearing for the first time our diplomatic commonplaces. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa The driver stared at him with a look of owlish stupidity. The Yellow Streak His late Excellency, whom the august favour of his Imperial master had imposed as Ambassador upon several reluctant Ministers of Foreign Affairs, had enjoyed in his lifetime a fame for an owlish, pessimistic gullibility. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale In spite of anxiety it amused me to see old Cla-cla regarding me fixedly with owlish eyes and lips moving. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest Anthony was sitting up in bed, staring at her with owlish precision. The Beautiful and Damned This brought out yet more clearly the owlish secrecy of pine-woods; and my friend cast a regretful glance at them as he came out under the sky. Alarms and Discursions She looked at him, at the lean figure sunk in the armchair, at the dragged, infirm face, the blurred, owlish eyes, the expression of abject self-pity, of self-absorption. Life and Death of Harriett Frean Then Badger, with a studiously owlish countenance, asked: "Am I wrong to understand that you are night watch?" Botchan (Master Darling) It was an elderly man, with a bald head and an owlish face. The Christian A Story Naturally, the children grew up with the idea of the birds and the owlish old man associated in their minds. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs They appeared to be gifted with an owlish vision, able to see with very little light. A Crystal Age The one important fact in her statement is that Hawthorne was in the habit of taking solitary rambles after dark,—an owlish practice, but very attractive to romantic minds. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne But, indeed, the young Venetian is, at that age when all men are owlish, ignorant, and vapid, the most owlish, ignorant, and vapid man in the world. Venetian Life Drake bellowed with delight; Lord Robert drawled out a long owlish laugh; Polly Love said spitefully, "You might give us your friend, the new curate, next, dearest," and then Glory went down like a shot. The Christian A Story But his owlish countenance never appeared between me and that patch of pale dim light; nor did I ever feel a breath of cold unearthly air on me. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs Some motive they have for all their clamor, but it passes my owlish wisdom to guess what it can be. A Florida Sketch-Book Louis XV. expressed the owlish philosophy when he said, "Let us amuse ourselves by making ourselves miserable." Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough He sat for a time blinking with owlish stupidity. Gunman's Reckoning By degrees our eyes became owlish, and we gradually saw, as if looming out of past ages, the beautiful arches of the roof, and the columns on each side. Memories of Hawthorne "Beautiful morning," he said gravely, squinting up his owlish eyes. Tales of the Jazz Age When they returned, Mr. Vosburgh went to his library, for he was somewhat owlish in his habits. An Original Belle The thing got up with the promptitude of an animal, and turning round offered the spectacle of two owlish eyes and a huge grey-and-white beard not unlike the plumage of an owl. The Ball and the Cross He looked more owlish than ever behind his big, gold-rimmed spectacles. Heart of the Sunset He dived skilfully, and on returning to the surface beheld Mr. Keith smiling upon him, with owlish benevolence, through his spectacles. South Wind Then she smiled unwillingly, for he was looking at her with owlish sentimentality varied with a silly spasmodic smile. Tales of the Jazz Age The large, lurid eyes had an owlish stare; and the outspread pinions, black as night, made the wan face yet more livid by contrast. Beulah Your ugly owlish face had made too great an impression on me. The Malady of the Century Were these owlish eyes made for ogling; that carrion complexion to be admired; or that mouth, like a horse-shoe, to be kissed? The Adventures of Roderick Random It did not need his lordship's owlish expression of doubt to tell him how weak his story must sound. The Intrusion of Jimmy Herr Grosse buttoned his coat, settled his owlish spectacles firmly on his nose, and took up his hat. Poor Miss Finch Simply because your tremendous gray eyes have such an owlish way of looking people out of countenance. Beulah "You're very right," he said, with owlish smugness, adjusting a waistcoat button that had come loose, and smoothing his cuffs. The Titan She turned to go with him, and in that moment, Peppe, his owlish face spread over with alarm, dashed up the steps from the courtyard. Love-at-Arms What a precious experience now this would have been for a tottery, talkative, owlish old parochial creature like me. The Return Herr Grosse's squat figure and owlish spectacles appeared on the threshold. Poor Miss Finch "Well, Chevalier, the Grand Company, after toasting all the beauties of Quebec, desire to drink the health of the fair mistress of Beaumanoir, and in her presence too!" said Cadet with owlish gravity. The Golden Dog Standing in the gloom of the corridor, Coleman felt the mournful owlish eyes of the German resting upon him. Active Service In this strain General Feraud ran on, holding up his head, with owlish eyes and rapacious beak. A Set of Six The local Dogberrys of the tribunals would fire off their little stock of gibes and platitudes upon him, propound with owlish solemnity the new Christianity, abuse him and condemn him, without listening to him. All Roads Lead to Calvary His black skull cap, and his big hooked nose, and the yellow-leaved, worm-eaten books—of magic: all doubts were now removed—that for hours he would sit poring over through owlish gold-rimmed spectacles! The Fawn Gloves An owlish head, with dark moustaches, was thrust in, with deprecating and somewhat absurd inquiry. The Club of Queer Trades So great was the sway of his rapture that Julio, too, was able to see all that the artist flattered himself into believing that he had put into the owlish eyes. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. Bleak House |
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