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Updated: June 18, 2025
Now and again a night-owl hooted, or a sleeping hare, scared from its form, scampered away into the underbrush; but these few sounds made the solitude only more oppressive.
He pulled up his sleeve, and displayed a long scratch from wrist to elbow. "Are you sure it wasn't a ghost, Everett?" asked Ann, shivering. "Of course, it wasn't," boasted Everett. "It was only a horrid woman with a cat that's all." As he closed the door vehemently, there drifted to the children from the marble monument and waving trees the faint wail of a night-owl.
The fearful punishment of the day's work on the knives had shown itself, and since dark, relays of mechanics from the Sleepy Cat shops had been busy with the cutting gear, and the companion plough had already been ordered in from the eighth district. Glover returned to the car at one o'clock. The lights were low, and Clem, a night-owl, fixed him in a chair near the door.
Ah, we sisters shall be merry. Hearken: if I aid thee thus I may do no more. Thrice has the night-owl come at thy call now it must wing away. Yet things will be as I have said; thine own wisdom shall guide the rest. Ere morn Brighteyes shall stand in Atli's hall, ere spring he will be thy love, and ere autumn Gudruda shall sit on the high seat in the hall of Middalhof the bride of Ospakar.
Like all brothers, I shall take liberties, and will subscribe in her behalf for the two best magazines in the city. Give Miss Warren this simple message: The words I last spoke to her shall ever be true." I also told Mrs. Yocomb of my promotion, and that I was no longer a night-owl. Toward the end of the week came another bulky letter, which I devoured, letting my dinner grow cold.
Like a night-owl, I see better in the dark; the light of day dazzles me. You know, I have grown up on the sea, sir." "No, you are not disturbing me, Haggart. But am I not disturbing you? Then I shall go away." "You are so polite, sir," mutters Haggart. "But I also love this spot," continues the sad, grave voice. "I, too, like to feel that the cold and peaceful granite is behind me.
Mother Cockleshell screeched like a night-owl and hastily pattered some gypsy spell to avert evil. "Why, the old devil is black," she cried. "And why should I have him in my house to work evil? This is my white ghost." Her words were accompanied by a gentle stroking of the cat. "And good is what she brings to my roof-tree. But I don't eat from white dishes, or drink from white mugs. No! No!
What! when the coldest sage, the most heated enthusiast, the hardiest warrior, with his nerves of iron, have been found dead in their beds, with straining eyeballs and horrent hair, at the first step of the Dread Progress, thinkest thou that this weak woman from whose cheek a sound at the window, the screech of the night-owl, the sight of a drop of blood on a man's sword, would start the color could brave one glance of Away! the very thought of such sights for her makes even myself a coward!"
"On the rough bear's paws, And on Bragi's tongue, On the wolf's claws, And on eagle's bill, On bloody wings, And bridge's end; On loosing palms, And pity's path: "On glass, and on gold, And on goodly silver, In wine and in wort, And the seat of the witch-wife; On Gungnir's point, And Grani's bosom; On the Norn's nail, And the neb of the night-owl.
Indeed these animals seem to have made a compact together as to the various times and tones of their song. The crowing of the cock is a sound should wake men from their beds, the horned-owl groans, the screech-owl shrieks, the night-owl cries 'tuwhit, tuwhoo', the cicalas chatter, and the swallows twitter shrill.
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