He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom.
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.
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.
Pursued and pursuers alike swept by the little figure with the owlish eyes, who had not taken his hands out of his pockets.
Auberon was flicking dust off his sleeve with quite a new seriousness on his face, distinct from the owlishsolemnity which was the pose of his humour.
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.
To her remarks he merely replied by a solemn shake of the head and an owlish gaze into the big pot.
Peegwish opened his owlish eyes and looked so solemn that Victor could scarce forbear laughing, despite the circumstances.
Peter Himmel ambled up, owlish now and oratorically inclined.
Then she smiled unwillingly, for he was looking at her with owlishsentimentality varied with a silly spasmodic smile.
Beautiful morning," he said gravely, squinting up his owlish eyes.
Herr Grosse buttoned his coat, settled his owlish spectacles firmly on his nose, and took up his hat.
Herr Grosse's squat figure and owlish spectacles appeared on the threshold.
Simply because your tremendous gray eyes have such an owlish way of looking people out of countenance.
The large, lurid eyes had an owlish stare; and the outspread pinions, black as night, made the wan face yet more livid by contrast.
In spite of anxiety it amused me to see old Cla-cla regarding me fixedly with owlish eyes and lips moving.
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.
If it ain' so mooch danger for Win to git hang--" He paused and looked at Tex with owlish solemnity.
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 looked on in owlish solemnity as the man sat holding the blade helplessly.
Naturally, the children grew up with the idea of the birds and the owlish old man associated in their minds.
She remembered how as a little girl, full of mischief and greatly daring, she had sometimes climbed over the low front wall to hide under the thick yew bushes and watch to catch a sight of the owlish old man at his door or window.
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.
Sowinska and an ugly, hostile light gleamed in her owlish eyes.
Sowinska was to-day all radiant: her gray, owlish eyes were beaming with unaccustomed friendliness.
Weirder than the pictures Are the folks who stand Passing owlish strictures, Catalogue in hand.
He remembered waking to that old wave of sickening horror on the first unhappy morning; he remembered the keen yet owlish old face blinking its deathless friendliness at him, and the steady pressure of the cold, skinny hand.
What a precious experience now this would have been for a tottery, talkative, owlish old parochial creature like me.
He thrust his owlish face over the board and shook the wine in his glass till in the light it sparkled like rubies.
It was the Fool's delight to go about hearing everything through dog-like ears, seeing everything through owlish eyes.
His owlish eyes glared in a perfect frenzy of real or simulated terror, and he hopped from one foot to the other in the center of the floor, hunching his dwarfed shoulders with a horrid, convulsive movement.
It was an elderly man, with a bald head and an owlish face.
They appeared to be gifted with an owlish vision, able to see with very little light.
They availed themselves of the invitation to come, and sometimes palavered, but more frequently smoked, withowlish solemnity, squatting on the floor with their backs against the wall.
A red-faced man whose vacuity startled from behind a pair of owlish glasses exclaimed, "That's all wrong, Dorn.
The owlish glasses focused with noncommittal stoicism in its direction.
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.
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.
That little blinky-eyed Professor Bolton was standing there, most owlish and interested.
A beard, a pair of roundowlish spectacles, and two ridiculous ear-muffs, left only a suggestion of face here and there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owlish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: academic; bookish; diligent; pedantic; professorial; rabbinic; scholarly; scholastic; studious
