I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
The shrill bat flutters by; from yon dark tower The shrieking owlet hails the shadowy hour; Hoarse hums the beetle as he drones along, The hour of love is flown!
He then carried the chicken to the king, telling him that he had returned the owlet to his parents, as he did not want him for food; so the king told the hawk that for the future he could always feed on chickens.
The hawk then carried the owlet away, and told his friends what the king had said.
The next day the hawk carried the owlet back to his parents and left him near the nest.
On the one hand, a bird more amusing than the clownish little owletdoes not exist; on the other, it is excessively noisy.
This is a familiar owl in England, and is common out here, but not nearly so abundant as the little spotted owlet that makes night hideous by its caterwaulings.
It ventures not forth into the dazzling light of day as does that noisy little clown, the spotted owlet (Athene brama).
It came presently, the cry of the owlet repeated, as Gorlias had repeated it.
At that moment, the repeated call of the owlet came down from far above.
The owlet dingle of vine and brier, That the butterfly-weed flecked fierce with fire.
Joshua Owlethas got a screw loose where his daughter is concerned and it won't advance nothing if you go to him.
He always proved queer and difficult, and nought but my great love for Jenny would have made me tolerate a man like Joshua Owlet for a moment.
In fact he was a bad 'un--a juvenile adult that had served two years for three burglaries; and so Owlet had told me a bit of truth mixed up with his lies.
For the rest, and as to details, only Owlet can tell 'em; but it's very clear to me he did what they say I did.
I hope he did, then, and I'll tell you why," said Owlet to me.
A very selfish man in fact, and the thought of Jenny having a home of her own away from him, though to any decent father a right and proper thing to happen, got Joshua Owlet in a rage, and I had to exercise unbounded patience.
But for a moment my mind was took off Bond by Owlet himself, and I couldn't somehow feel his story had the ring of truth about it.
Mr. Owlet ain't the sort of man to find a gay young spark like Tom much to his taste.
But of course poor Bond might have meant to run straight after he fell in love with Jenny, till Owlet tackled him and encouraged him to try and murder me.
Owlet wore rags for choice and he picked up a living making clothes-pegs and weaving osier baskets.
You knew Jenny Owlet had ordained to marry me at her own wish and desire, and, knowing that, you made love to her and was sloking her affection away, while all the time I befriended you and praised you and set store upon you.
But the keepers hated Owlet poking about, because they said he took more than withies from the osier beds.
And if I'd had the second sight and been able to see where the fatal passion was going to take me, I'd have kept my eyes off Jenny Owlet very careful indeed.
The owlet Atheism, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven, cries out, 'Where is it?
Coleridge compares atheism to an owlet hooting at the sun, and asking where it is.
The Spotted Cut-Worm lived quite alone until he was full-grown, then he made a little oval room for himself in the ground and slept in it while he changed into a Black Owlet Moth.
They had hatched the summer before from eggs laid by the Owlet Moths, their mothers, and had spent the time from then until cold weather in eating and sleeping and eating some more.
In a few years, under good discipline, thou mightest rise from the owlet unto the peacock.
HE doubted whether punt were punt; I doubted whether owlet were owlet, after Lucifer was away from the roll-call.
When they had passed the water an owlet hooted after them; and methought, if they had any fear of God before their eyes they would have turned back, he cried so lustily.
The little birds are very human; theowlet complains: Poor little owlet me!
This owlet calls in the early part of the night and at intervals throughout the period of darkness, and becomes most vociferous just before the approach of "rosy-fingered dawn.
Almost as abundant as the spotted owlet is another feathered pigmy--the jungle owlet (Glaucidium radiatum).
I tell you, Signor, my mistress is right, you are as good as a dead man if you trust to the Grand Duke; but take the advice of the Owlet and we will foil him nicely.
I will go with you since you need my service, and will bid your mistress and the Owletalso a grateful farewell.
He will catch," thought owlet now, "That red thing they call the cow.
THE MOTOR CAR* Owlet sat, so quiet and good, At the edge of Yarner Wood, While a mother owl hard by Sought his supper silently.
Sudden came two hideous screams, Wakened owlet from his dreams; Down the road, on unseen wing, Swept a vast and awful thing.
Peace restored, Dimples and the Owlet remember a dead lizard they found in a corner of the verandah, and set off to recover it.
The Owlet is twin to that quaint little bird, so its name flew to her and stayed.
The she-fox whelps upon its floor; The owlet roosts above its door; And where the musty mosses run, The freckled snake basks in the sun.
The owlet itself is a tiny creature, about the size of a sparrow.
Once at Mussoorie I noticed a pigmy collared owlet sitting as bold as brass on a conspicuous branch about midday and making grimaces at me.
The collared pigmy owlet (Glaucidium brodiei) is perhaps the commonest owl in the Himalayas: at any rate, it is the species that makes itself heard most often.
The owlet makes us melody-- Come dance with us in Faery, Come dance with us to-night.
In open country the jungleowlet and the dusky-horned owl call at intervals, and the Indian nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus) imitates the sound of a stone skimming over ice.
It is easy to distinguish between the two owls, as the scops has aigrettes or "horns," which the spotted owlet lacks.
Almost as abundant as the spotted owlet is the jungle owlet (Glaucidium radiatum).
With a space of two feet between them, the pup and the owlet eyed each other.
He might have run then, but instead of that he was back at the owlet like a flash.
Differs from the Spotted Owlet in having "horns" or ear-tufts.
This may be distinguished from the spotted owlet by the fact that it possesses "horns" or ear-tufts.
Distinguished from the Spotted Owlet by its call and by the fact that it is far less often seen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owlet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
