"Smallest of the British owls, the is only 22 cm from head to tail, which is less than a centimetre larger than a . ..…"

"While I am talking of owls, it may not be improper to mention what I was told by a gentleman of the country of Wilts.…"

"The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gus…"

"The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations * * * * The ro…"

"In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, …"

"St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold."

"The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon."

"The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And fr…"

"Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note."

"It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good night."