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The hen-harrier is still shot at intervals; but the large hawks have ceased out of the daily life, as it were, of woods and fields. Horned owls are becoming rare; even the barn-owl has all but disappeared from some districts, and the wood-owl is local. The raven is extinct quite put out.
"Well, how was it? Grand?" "It was terrible!" Foma smiled. "I sat there as if on hot coals. They all looked there like peacocks, while I looked like a barn-owl." Luba was taking out dishes from the cupboard and said nothing to Foma. "Really, why are you so sad?" asked Foma again, glancing at her gloomy face. She turned to him and said with enthusiasm and anxiety: "Ah, Foma! What a book I've read!
Harris muster the crew all hands, and look sharp," said Riggs. "Have every man Jack of 'em up here, and let us see what they have been about. Have Mr. Harris muster the crew! Hear me? Don't stand there like a barn-owl! Relieve Mr. Harris, and have all hands aft!" He hurried away, and that was the last I ever saw of the second mate of the Kut Sang.
How Ernest wished he had never mentioned So-and-so's name, and vowed to himself that he would never talk about his friends in future, but in a few hours he would forget and would prattle away as imprudently as ever; then his mother would pounce noiselessly on his remarks as a barn-owl pounces upon a mouse, and would bring them up in a pellet six months afterwards when they were no longer in harmony with their surroundings.
Another large class of birds, the marsh-hawk, Harris hawk, red-tailed hawk, red-shouldered hawk, short-tailed hawk, white-tailed hawk, Swainson hawk, short-winged hawk, broad-winged hawk, Mexican black hawk, Mexican goshawk, sparrow-hawk, barn-owl, long-eared owl, short-eared owl, great gray owl, barred owl, western owl, Richardson owl, screech-owl, snowy owl, hawk-owl, burrowing owl, pigmy owl and elf owl live mostly on destructive mammals, insects, frogs and snakes, but they eat some birds and some of them occasionally catch poultry.
Then the quilt got him you could hear the unspeakably beastly death-squeal reverberate mufflingly and then the quilt rose, still utterly without sound, and one saw it was a big barn-owl, with a rat a brown rat twitching in its white-mittened claws. But do you think that made any difference? If so, you don't know the cruel devil of perseverance that is the brown rat.
Lina turned as she heard the noise made by the breaking of the branch. 'What was that noise? she said. 'It was nothing, replied her eldest sister; 'it was only the screech of the barn-owl that roosts in one of the turrets of the castle. While she was speaking Michael managed to slip in front, and running up the staircase, he reached the princesses' room first.
The barn-owl is the commonest kind; and I have watched one sitting in a hole in a tree, looking like a little gray cat, with one eye shut and the other open. He comes out at dusk, and sits round waiting for the bats. I caught one, and here he is."
The cock is aloft with his crest: The barn-owl comes from her quest She fixes an eye upon me And frightens away my rest When sleep would settle on me Like the wild bird down on its nest. Flann watched all the Little Red Hen did. He saw her put her head on one side and look down for a while at a certain herb that grew near the ground. Flann plucked that herb and brought it to Morag.
The chairman, a large white barn-owl, gave the casting vote, declining to accept the affirmation. The matter was reported to the House, and the action duly confirmed. Bradlaugh then, on advice of Labouchere, notified the House that he was willing to accept the regulation oath, all in the interests of amity, it being of course understood that his religious views had not changed.
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