bo-o-oh

Updated: May 24, 2025

So the doctor turned him about quickly with a sort of chill between his shoulders, and perched on the back of his chair sat a portentous old quizzical carrion-crow, the antediluvian progenitor of the whole race of carrion-crows, monstrous, with great shining eyes, and head white as snow, and a queer human look, and the crooked beak of an owl, that opened with a loud grating 'caw' close in his ears; and with a 'bo-o-oh! and a bounce that shook the bed and made poor Mrs.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard