| 单词 | screech owl |
| 例句 | A screech owl arrived for Hermione, carrying her morning copy of the Daily Prophet as usual. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “The screech owl is one of Hades’s sacred animals,” Nico said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I told you not to call Lorraine a screech owl!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well, what are you and that screech owl going over there for?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z A screech owl calls from the dead oak, and I look up. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grandpa, I heard two screech owls,” I said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if I feel like calling her a screech owl?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Several dying screech owls were picked up in Wisconsin following heavy rains in spring, perhaps poisoned by feeding on earthworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There had been no evil to mar that propitious night, because she had listened; there had been no voice of evil; no screech owl had quaveringly disturbed the stillness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Did we not talk about Mrs. Curie’s element? Mrs. Maxwell’s screech owl? Miss Anning’s pterodactyl? Her ichthyosaur?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z All these things were going through my head when I heard a shriek like a screech owl coming from the house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And over all the shadowy screech owls sailed, drawing a smudge of shadowy fear below them on the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The only sound was that of a screech owl, near enough to startle me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “All right, I’m sorry I called her a screech owl,” Norton said, trying to avoid the unavoidable. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z As the owls flooded into the Great Hall as usual, everyone’s at-tention was caught at once by a long, thin package carried by six large screech owls. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “It was a screech owl. I don’t know for sure if I heard one or two. It could have been just one.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sounds of the marsh filtered in through the cracked-open window: frogs croaking, cicadas singing, and the call of screech owls. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The next morning, while having breakfast, Grandpa started kidding me about the screech owls. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Such subterranean tunnelers as shrews and moles capture them in some numbers, and then perhaps pass on the poison to predators such as screech owls and barn owls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Pigwidgeon was much too small to carry an entire ham up to the mountain by himself, so Harry enlisted the help of two school screech owls as well. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Hawks and owls have been found in convulsions — great horned owls, screech owls, red-shouldered hawks, sparrow hawks, marsh hawks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Both written and illustrated by Angell, “The House of Owls” begins with a chapter, a memoir of sorts, of the 24 years his family lived with a succession of screech owls in their yard. Tony Angell: A grateful guest in ‘The House of Owls’ 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Clearwater Nature Center’s resident bald eagle, screech owl and other birds of prey. How to make a quick escape to nature in the Washington area 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z "Maybe another bird will move into it, but we really have our fingers crossed that the screech owl will actually find it somehow." Artists devise wildlife-friendly works for San Francisco's Presidio 2010-06-03T20:50:00Z On a trip to Michigan, his family found a dead screech owl on the side of a snowy road. Tony Angell: A grateful guest in ‘The House of Owls’ 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Both weekends will offer birds of prey demonstrations at 1 and 3 p.m. in which wildlife experts will display the red-tailed hawk, the American kestrel and the Eastern screech owl, among other species. For Children Listings for Nov. 6-12 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z As they left, one couple asked where they might listen for whiskered screech owls, and motored up the canyon for more night birding. A Birding Adventure in Arizona’s ‘Sky Islands’ 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The L.A. architects Taalman Koch kept this in mind while designing their project: a geodesic dome for the screech owl, perched some 15 feet high on a tripod. Artists devise wildlife-friendly works for San Francisco's Presidio 2010-06-03T20:50:00Z Potential guests include an Eastern screech owl, a barred owl, a red-tailed hawk and an American kestrel. Spare Times for Children for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Taylor suggests putting up a nesting box that might attract an eastern screech owl, to leave some parts of the yard wild to encourage prey species and to avoid heavy pesticide use. Owls are natural-born killers. So why do we adore them so much? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z But what are the chances a screech owl, whose trills have not been heard in the Presidio for nearly a decade, will actually find its way here? Artists devise wildlife-friendly works for San Francisco's Presidio 2010-06-03T20:50:00Z She is not just a random animal found in someone's backyard; if souls are indeed a thing that exists, Alfie — and, again by extension, all screech owls — have one. What an orphan owl taught an ecologist about bird intelligence 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Each chapter of “Dinosaurs” makes mention of a different bird: hummingbirds, screech owls, cuckoos, the common New York City pigeon. The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z A few doors down from the vulture, we came to a whiskered screech owl, a gray owl with large yellow eyes spray-painted on a black security screen. A walking tour of Manhattan’s Audubon Mural Project 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Some say it was a screech owl, flapping its wings while resting on a branch of a nearby fir tree. Looking for America in Thanksgiving week: It must be here somewhere 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Drew, a eastern screech owl, was found dead in mid-December in his enclosure at Humane Indiana Wildlife in Valparaiso, where the rehabilitation center’s staff said he died of old age. Wildlife center mourns owl that was its winged ambassador 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z I think that Alfie felt threatened, which she was, because the blue jays are about the same size as a screech owl. What an orphan owl taught an ecologist about bird intelligence 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Maybe you’ll hear a screech owl, a great horned owl, the wail of a bobcat in heat. NJ town shrinks from existence 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z There are more types of birds than I can list, but they include eagles, ospreys, several types of herons, egrets, mergansers, cormorants, hawks and owls, including screech owls. Opinion | Discarded in the Potomac: Bottles and cans, golf balls and boats 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z It will join two other Eastern screech owls in its Ohio conservation exhibit. Perspective | Flying the friendly skies: An owl takes flight, but not in the way you’d expect 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In spring and summer months Drew was a surrogate father to orphaned eastern screech owl babies that he took under his wing and later released back into the wild. Wildlife center mourns owl that was its winged ambassador 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z We have horned owls here that would happily eat a screech owl if they could. What an orphan owl taught an ecologist about bird intelligence 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z After he placed nesting boxes, a wood duck set up in one and a screech owl minded four eggs in another. Native plants attract birds to your own backyard 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z They built two screech owl houses and two bat houses. Arkansas wildlife trail gets revamped 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “I guess that yelling was pretty funny, for Mr. McMoarn told me later it sounded like a screech owl.” Donn Fendler, Who Was Lost in Wilds of Maine as a Boy, Dies at 90 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Ashleigh Scully won first place in the youth category for ages 10 to 13 with this image of an eastern screech owl, made from her parents’ car near her home in Morristown, New Jersey. Stunning Images Win Conservation Photo Contest 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The chapter also maintains nesting boxes for eastern bluebirds, eastern screech owls and bats. Bloomington park is designated as Important Bird Area 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Linnaea Tillett, a lighting designer in New York, spoke to me of a nighttime walk in Central Park, of listening more keenly to bird calls, the screech owls, foxes. The Solstice Blues 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Bird houses built by students welcome species from bluebirds to screech owls. Arkansas wildlife trail gets revamped 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Without a peep, four other eastern screech owl patients wait nearby in their covered cages. Maryland woman cares for feathered friends 2014-01-10T18:39:25Z Ashleigh Scully won first place in the youth category for ages 10 to 13 with this image of an eastern screech owl, made from her parents’ car near her home in Morristown, New Jersey. Stunning Images Win Conservation Photo Contest 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This incredible image from Graham McGeorge pictures a screech owl blending into the bark of a tree. Amazing snaps from photo competition 2013-08-02T10:40:04Z In two prints nearby, a screech owl is in composite with lacy motifs. | Westchester: Art From Feminine Perspectives, at transFORM Gallery in New Rochelle 2012-12-29T07:06:47Z Go, burn these poisonous weeds in yon blue fire, These screech owls' feathers and this prickling briar, This cypress gathered at a dead man's grave, That all my fears and cares an end may have. A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z Just before Christmas, the first of the five screech owls arrived after someone found it with a broken wing on the patio of a restaurant in Rockville. Maryland woman cares for feathered friends 2014-01-10T18:39:25Z Ashleigh Scully won first place in the youth category for ages 10 to 13 with this image of an eastern screech owl, made from her parents’ car near her home in Morristown, New Jersey. Stunning Images Win Conservation Photo Contest 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Barn owls and screech owls are known to nest across the city, but not in any great numbers. City Room: In Brooklyn and Manhattan, Owl Watchers May Have Their Day 2012-02-03T21:58:38Z The terrifying little screech owl wails from shadowy woods, and from the venerable timber sounds the horned owl’s obscure threat. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z “Only a screech owl; it’s unusual to find one so far in the woods as this!” A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z “Getting five screech owls within the span of nine days is a fluke,” Shoemaker says. Maryland woman cares for feathered friends 2014-01-10T18:39:25Z Officials with The Raptor Trust in Long Hill say Simon, an eastern screech owl, was returned unharmed Friday night. Good Samaritan arranges safe return of stolen, partly blind Simon the owl to NJ rehab center 2011-12-17T17:27:08Z The Eastern screech owl is New Jersey’s most common owl. Partly blind Simon the owl stolen from NJ rehab center; heartbroken director pleads for return 2011-12-16T20:46:41Z This boy discovered for himself the screech owls' strange characteristic of changing their colour without changing their feathers, as moulting song birds change theirs. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z “That’s a hoot owl—or a screech owl, I don’t know which,” he said. The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp 2011-09-30T02:00:20.203Z We share our neighborhoods with small predators such as screech owls. Maryland woman cares for feathered friends 2014-01-10T18:39:25Z If one is sick and a screech owl screams near by, the sick person is sure to die. Octavia The Octoroon 2011-09-26T02:00:30.547Z "The elementary spirits," he would explain with imperturbable gravity, "are the green butterfly, the black pullet, the queen of the hairy flies, and the screech owl." The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z A little screech owl in the sunlight where only a photographer could find him. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Again and again he stood still, listening; but only the gentle voices of the night reached his ear, no sound of alarm--the screech owl was silent.... For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Nora the eastern screech owl snaps her short, yellow beak, threatening her caretaker. Maryland woman cares for feathered friends 2014-01-10T18:39:25Z They are even fooled to melodiously mournful protest when their ears catch the shriller quaver of the screech owl's note. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Not a human face or habitation presented itself, nor any relief from silence, except the uncheering note of the screech owl. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z I seed somepin black befo' my eyes an' den a screech owl lit in my winder an' screech right in my face. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z The priest could not tell, but he remembered the screech owl. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z The fifth screech owl, Angora, arrived December 29 with a concussion, or brain trauma. Maryland woman cares for feathered friends 2014-01-10T18:39:25Z One listener will tell you that it is only a little screech owl's voice, another that it is the raccoon's rallying cry to a raid on the cornfield. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Bah!" he exclaims, recognising the call of the screech owl, "it's only one o' them cursed brutes. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z For a weird feeling is upon him, as he remembers how there the screech owls mournfully cried, as if to make him sadder when thinking of his own lost love. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Out upon it," said Master Doubletongue; "thy voice is like a screech owl's! William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z You’re more likely to hear a screech owl than to see one. Maryland woman cares for feathered friends 2014-01-10T18:39:25Z I heard her breathing steadily a few minutes later, and from far off somewhere in the outer world the mournful whistle of a screech owl came to my ears, the andante of the winter night. The Idyl of Twin Fires Glancing up in the direction from whence that terrible scream came, I could plainly see the outline of a screech owl. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. It is a quavering note somewhat resembling that of the screech owl, but lower and softer, and seems to come from a distance, though really close by. Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc. And when at length she found her way again and walked ahead, her little mouth and childish chin working in a paroxysm of fright, a screech owl called and made her almost scream with terror. The Shadow On December 28, the screech owls were briefly joined in their quiet refuge by an injured bald eagle that Shoemaker rescued from a yard in Montgomery County. Maryland woman cares for feathered friends 2014-01-10T18:39:25Z It is a pity the little-eared owl is called a screech owl. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt More likely in our neighborhood it will be the gentle, quavering call of the little screech owl, a voice of friendliness out of the silence, dear to every true lover of the woods. Old Plymouth Trails A screech owl hooted in the trees, and a thousand frogs clamored in the blackness. Collectivum But Jenny Lind, and her cordon of sentinels, secretaries and suckers, were "fly" for the old screech owl, when again and again she beset the clark and the stairways of the Revere. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes We had strong proof the previous season that an owl, probably the screech owl, prowled about the house at night. Under the Maples Lord! how the birds sing now around the manor––screech owls, cat-birds, bobolinks!” The Strollers Over on the margin of the pines the little screech owl, now full of field mice and having time to worry, voiced his trouble about it in little sorrowful whinnies. Old Plymouth Trails A screech owl somewhere off in the woods jeered at him. The Vagrant Duke The hag took a cage from the top of the wagon where it had been suspended, and when she opened the door a small screech owl emerged and perched upon the shoulders of its mistress. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties Big Ernestine leaped up, left the fire, advanced to the far end of the cellar, and imitated the cry of a screech owl to perfection. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas “My dear Warden,” he cried, “or rather screech owl,95 if you value your beak, quit that hooting.” Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 I heard the barnyard roosters faintly crowing in the distance, but a little screech owl called clearly on a limb just beyond the ridge-pole. Old Plymouth Trails "Bring forth that fatal screech owl to our house, That nothing sung but blood and death" are the words of the "Contention"; "Out on you, owls, nothing but songs of death," of "Richard III." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant "Queer what a noise a screech owl will make," the former remarked, after a moment's silence. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine And the woods between Bolivar and Toone's were full of owls, from great big fellows with a thunderous scream, down to the little screech owls, who made only a sort of chattering noise. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Reach in with your gloved hand and bring the screech owl out. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Down in the hollow a screech owl was crying, and his mate on the hill-top replied to his call, while in the room near me was the whif of a bat. The Jucklins A Novel A screech owl made a tremulous, eerie note, but even Jesse only laughed at that. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri The next morning he was safe, the screech owls of the neighborhood having overlooked him in some way. Our Bird Comrades Both in Europe and America," interposed Sumichrast, "screech owls, and their kinsmen, the common owls, barn owls, buzzards, and all nocturnal birds of prey, are looked upon by the ignorant as birds of ill omen. Adventures of a Young Naturalist As we look and listen, a shadowless something hovers overhead, and, looking upward, we see a gray screech owl silently hanging on beating wings. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year They are quiet all day, but just as soon as the sun sets and twilight gathers, you should see what a wide awake family a nest full of hungry little screech owls can be. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 5 May, 1897 A screech owl called and startled her; Tory had a sudden attack of nerves; running ahead a few yards, she stumbled. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest One night just erbout dusk dark, de screech owls, dey come in er swarm an' lit in de big trees in de front of de house. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 He then declares that the disease is caused by a mere screech owl, which he at once banishes to the laurel thicket. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 Out of the night comes softly the croon of a little screech owl—that cry almost as ancient as the hills. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The Brown Owl is the hooting or screech owl, and makes a very dismal noise. Mamma's Stories about Birds It was rather a queer place for a screech owl, but, I presume, suited her fancy. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State At the distant turn of the road he hooted with the vigor of a screech owl, "Better'n law!" and disappeared. The Rainy Day Railroad War It is a mere screech owl that has frightened him. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 In the Park the sparrow hawks nest in a hollow tree, as do the screech owls. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Then there's a pair of screech owls calling to each other; a whip-poor-will whooping things up; and most of all the frogs have started in to get busy with their chorus. Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge Steve, creeping between protruding roots, heard a screech owl in the distance. The Long Roll The priest shouts till he is hoarse and fires off his pistol; but the woods muffle all sound but the scream of the wild cat or the uncanny hoot of the screech owl. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The bird, singled out for the dismal honour of being a death prognosticator, was the tawny, or screech owl. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales In their joy they fell on each other's necks and forgot all about the screech owl, until they heard a sweet voice beside them, and turning beheld a beautiful Princess. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Animal figures often take the place of these gods as in the second picture in Dresden 7c where the screech owl is shown with human body. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices But the night was fine, and Dickie enjoyed his journey, though once he stopped and shivered when he heard the wailing whistle of a screech owl. The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse "Oh yes, us had ghost stories, make your hair stand on end, and us put iron in de fire when us hear screech owl, and put dream book under bed to keep off bad dreams." Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 "On the night that old Marse Ridley died the screech owls like to have taken the house away," he says. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 At the conclusion of her story, the screech owl wept anew and would not be consoled. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 The parrot, quetzal, vulture, screech owl and the horned owl appear in this connection. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices There were the barn owls, the long-eared owls, the short-eared owls, the saw-whet owls, the screech owls—but there! there's no use of naming them all. The Tale of Solomon Owl O that screech owl at the window! we shall be pursued immediately; which way shall we take? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 A man may woo a dove and marry a screech owl. Wise or Otherwise "It is unfortunate," said the Caliph, "but if we are to meet again, I think you will have to ask the screech owl to marry you." Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 It is, with little doubt, the screech owl, the only other form of eared owl commonly met with in the Central American region, and in Yucatan is represented by the race above indicated. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices Somewhere in the woods a solitary screech owl was hooting its discordant song. Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail One scream she gave, though not so loud as a screech owl, and then she tottered, swayed, and lost her senses. The Torch and Other Tales Ever were you the screech owl or the Osprey that boded ill when you spoke of Tristan; what news bear you now?” The Romance of Tristan and Iseult The moon shone through a barred window and showed him a screech owl sitting on the floor of the ruined chamber, lamenting in a hoarse voice. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 One of the eighteen Maya months is named Muan, and some of the glyphs appearing for this month in the codices certainly represent the Moan or screech owl. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices Ask her gigantic ruins straggling their sadness through the ages, the screech owl at windows out of which world-wide conquerors looked. New Tabernacle Sermons And like the spiteful screech owl, A bird that's most rapacious, The food that most she favors is the heart! La Boheme Let the Osprey bode me death; here is the evil news the screech owl brings. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult The Vizier had cautiously stolen up beside the Caliph; and at sight of the two storks, the screech owl uttered a cry of pleasure. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 A screech owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers; nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Every sound startled them, even that of their footsteps among the dry leaves; and the hooting of a screech owl, from the shattered chimney of father red-cap's ruin, made their blood run cold. Tales of a Traveller Here, my son," said the old warrior, as he pointed out the blackened ruins, "here stood our home, where now the screech owl haunts, and the wolf has its den. Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune The night was not cold now, but the breeze chilled her a little, and just then the melancholy cry of a screech owl pierced the air, and she shivered and went in again. In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid The screech owl led the two storks through difficult passages till they came to a hole in the wall, through which they could plainly see all that transpired in the lighted hall. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 "I hope they won't take the noise of this siren for the cry of a screech owl," whispered Bayliss, as the pair stole stealthily along. The High School Boys' Fishing Trip In a tree overhead a screech owl emits his evening call in a clear, vibrating tremolo, as if to warn the smaller birds that he is on watch, and considers them his lawful prey. Byways Around San Francisco Bay A whining screech owl sent a faint shudder of superstitious fear over the boy. The Court of Boyville M. Bartin, also oblivious of the proprieties, retorted, louder still: "And what are you but an infernal screech owl?" Round the Block As the Vizier was firm, the Caliph at last said he would take the chances and do as the screech owl required. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 At last there came the long-drawn, doleful note of the screech owl. The High School Boys' Fishing Trip The common barn owl, of a white, creamy colour, is the screech owl that we hear on summer nights. A Cotswold Village His roast was a screech owl in a sauce of glowing brimstone. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Across the lake, in the swampy woods, close where the screech owl sang and the girl of the golden dream walked in the moonlight the Harvester began operations. The Harvester Hourly 't is heard, when with a boding note The solitary screech owl strains her throat, And, on a chimney's top, or turret's height, With songs obscene disturbs the silence of the night. The Aeneid English When other birds are still, the screech owls take up the strain, like mourning women their ancient u-lu-lu. Walden A little screech owl tuned up in the distance, a barn owl replied, and a great horned owl drowned both their voices. A Girl of the Limberlost A ragged little shadow flitted down the path behind him, and from a solitary apple-tree, standing like a lonely ghost in the middle of the field, came the woo of a screech owl—twice. The Gentleman from Indiana "By St. Andrew, David," exclaimed his father, "thou art like a screech owl, every word thou sayest betokens strife and calamity." The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day A little screech owl was evidently watching the proceedings from his doorway in the trunk of a decayed apple-tree ten or a dozen rods distant. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton I remember that I found up in the sap bush a brood of young screech owls just out of the nest and I killed them all. My Boyhood The sum was continually sounding in her ears like the cry of a screech owl. Phantom Fortune, a Novel A screech owl hooted in a tree close by, and cold shivers ran up and down their backbones. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island One December morning a troop of jays discovered a little screech owl secreted in the hollow trunk of an old apple-tree near my house. Locusts and Wild Honey Next morning we consulted it, and found our captive variously described as the little red, the mottled, or the screech owl. Driven Back to Eden From a tree on the mountain side below, a screech owl sent up his long, quavering call; a bat darted past in the dusk; and away over on Compton Ridge a hound bayed. The Shepherd of the Hills A mist arose from the river and hovered over the valley below us; the complaining water of Brush creek mingled with the wailing of the screech owl as the ghostly footfalls sounded more remote. See America First Before throwing away the screech owl treated by the worms, let us overcome our repugnance and give a glance inside the bird. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The music and serenades that were given her sounded more ungratefully in her ears than the noise of a screech owl. History of John Bull You see," with a twist of the lip, "it don't do to tell a—a screech owl he's a canary. Shavings When he found himself again upon his balcony, dawn began to break, and a screech owl, returning from his hunt after field mice, passed before him and regained his hole. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels Every sound startled them, even that of their own footsteps among the dry leaves, and the hooting of a screech owl, from the shattered chimney of the neighboring ruin, made their blood run cold. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American May no wolf howl, or screech owl stir A wing about thy sepulchre! A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick |
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