Mexicans ain't got no more need for hands than squinch owls has for hymn books.
My savages follows along with me, an' each of 'em as grave as squinch owls an' tame as tabby cats.
No doubt there have been owls there for generations, and if no one ever disturbs them they have it all their own way.
And no more was ever heard of the owls in the tower room at Silverthorns.
But strangely enough, some may think it, yet it is nevertheless most true, wild pigeons built their nests in the pine trees, close to the wall in which the owls had theirs.
It was perhaps the noise made by the owls that gave rise to the notion, ripe enough among the peasantry, that the old Castle was haunted.
These pigeons knew, though gamekeepers don't, that these owlslived on young rats and mice and not upon birds.
Hawks regularly beat along the furze, darting on a finch now and then, and owls pass by at night.
They slept there all the summer night, and the fern owls flew to and fro, and the bats and crickets chirped, and the stars shone faintly, as if they were made pale by the heat.
In the dining room have a small evergreen tree planted in a china jardiniere in the center of the supper table with little peanut owls perched on the branches of the tree.
These owls have wings of light manila paper and are marked with ink to represent feathers.
The owls are attached to the branches, singly and in groups, with glue.
The eagles and owls were in cages with the top end kept open.
The owls that I had taken were safely reared and prove both amusing and interesting pets, but their life while in my keeping we will leave for another time.
Puffed within the belfry tower Hungry owls drowse out their hour.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch, when owls do cry.
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard.
Madonna," I answered, "with whom else should theowls confer?
About half-an-hour afterwards my husband heard a piercing shriek; then all was still, save for the hooting of the owls in the neighbouring trees.
Thus, owls and falcons have a diet that is closely similar, and yet owls have a pair of very long caeca, whilst in the Falconidae these organs are much reduced and apparently functionless.
And at the end of the month the Owls would lose their brother and patrol leader: during the first days of October Scout Nixon Warren's parents were expected home from Europe, and he would rejoin his former troop in Philadelphia.
But the two Owls who placed the gift did not find the recipient at home.
For it was the last woodland hike, for the present, that Scout Warren of the Owls would take with his patrol.
The improvement in his condition was such that his brother Owls had won his promise to enter school when it should reopen after this jolly camping period was over.
The feathered owls themselves are cheering the Owl Patrol.
That nickname had been forbidden by the patrol leader of the Owls under pain of dire penalties.
Bareheaded, breathless, the patrol leader of the Owls tore toward the bank, in his hand a coil of rope.
He's made up his mind that we Owls have no rights here: that this white beach is his stamping-ground, and he won't be frightened away!
Owls were breathing heavily in the hanging wood, and a pair of otters were hunting in the pool.
In the winter the short-eared owls come; they are rarer than their long-eared relatives, who stay with us all the year.
Brown owls are the ones that hoot; they do not screech.
Simply by living along Winander and hallooing so often to the owls that they learned to halloo in reply.
Hooting at the owls and hearing things in baffling silences may not be scientific.
You remember the boy along the waters of Winander, how he would hoot at the owls in the twilight, and they would call back to him across the echoing lake?
The owls get tired with their constant flying about, and, seeing this handy resting place, are then quickly caught as they alight upon it.
When better food is scarce these large owls are eaten by the Indians.
For weeks Sam suffered from his wounds ere they healed, and always after, although he shot a number of owlsin this and other ways, he took good care never to let a naked hand come in contact with an owl's claws.
One evening an Indian arrived with the news that at a certain place the great white owls had been seen in numbers, and perhaps it would be a good place to go and see what could be done in capturing some.
He is also fond of mice, and as there are some varieties of these active little creatures that run around a good deal even in the winter, and at night, the owls are ever on the lookout for them, as well as are the foxes.
Sometimes these great white owls in their night huntings fly far away from their usual resting places.
Under the calm ascension of the night We heard the mellow lapsing and return Of night-owls purring in their groundling flight Through lanes of darkling fern.
Screech Owls are found throughout the greater part of the Western Hemisphere.
An Owl of evergreen clumps and dense growths, where its presence is often betrayed by the litter below of undigested pellets of hair and bones whichOwls eject at the mouth.
Unlike most Owls it hunts by day, feeding chiefly on mice but also on birds.
Some Owlsand Hawks lay in March, and the Bluebird, White-breasted Nuthatch and Robin have eggs by April 20, while most of our birds go to housekeeping during the latter half of May.
When owlsfly they stretch out their legs behind them as a balance to their large heavy heads, for as most nocturnal birds have large eyes and ears they must have large heads to contain them.
White owls seem not (but in this I am not positive) to hoot at all; all that clamorous hooting appears to me to come from the wood kinds.
Owls have very expressive notes; they hoot in a fine vocal sound, much resembling the vox humana, and reducible by a pitch-pipe to a musical key.
For owls cast up the bones, fur, and feathers of what they devour, after the manner of hawks.
As they were grubbing a vast hollow pollard-ash that had been the mansion of owls for centuries, he discovered at the bottom a mass of matter that at first he could not account for.
Owls move in a buoyant manner, as if lighter than the air; they seem to want ballast.
White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they superstitiously think attends the windows of dying persons.
We have had, ever since I can remember, a pair of white owls that constantly breed under the eaves of this church.
When brown owlshoot their throats swell as big as a hen's egg.
The nocturnal birds of prey of which nests are likely to be found in January are the brown fish-owl (Ketupa ceylonensis) and the rock and the dusky horned-owls (Bubo bengalensis and B.
Most of the larger owls are now building nests or sitting on eggs; a few are seeking food for their offspring.
With February the nesting season of the barn-owls (Strix flammea) begins in the United Provinces, where their eggs have been taken as early as the 17th.
With this object he kept one of these owls captive for several weeks; the bird steadfastly refused to utter a sound.
As owls work on silent wing at night, they escape the attentions of the crows and the notice of the average human being.
The Sultan said (6) he should like to know what the two owls were saying to one another, and asked the (m) Vizier to listen to their discourse and give him an account of it.
But they have even more, mother; they have snakes and hawks and owls and coyotes and men, for yesterday some men came there with a great tank of water and poured five barrels into one burrow.
But the owls come in February, and if they are not swallows with the spring, they, nevertheless, help winter with most seemly haste into an early grave.
It is poetry and owls and sour apples and toads; for in this particular old apple dwells also a tree-toad.
Two smaller owls sat in the background, pressed close together,--one grey, the other brown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
