One owl, a barn-owl, had screeched deafeningly in his ear, and had struck him with a wing. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1952)
It startled Jack horribly and made Kiki screech like a barn-owl! ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1952)
The chairman, a large white barn-owl, gave the casting vote, declining to accept the affirmation. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
'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. ' ❋ Unknown (1890)
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. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Horned owls are becoming rare; even the barn-owl has all but disappeared from some districts, and the wood-owl is local. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
We took to 'em ez nat'ral ez a barn-owl doos to mice, ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
In the higher classes there are less doubts; though we find considerable difficulty in ascertaining what deserve to be called species amongst foxes and wolves, and in some birds, for instance in the case of the white barn-owl. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
SEQUIM - Nine orphaned barn-owl owlets that were raised with the help of a couple of surrogate mother barn owls have flown the nest at the Northwest Raptor and Wildlife Center in Sequim. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The young of the barn-owl are not easily raised, as they want a constant supply of fresh mice; whereas the young of the brown owl will eat indiscriminately all that is brought: snails, rats, kittens, puppies, magpies, and any kind of carrion or offal. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
‘it was only the screech of the barn-owl that roosts in one of the turrets of the castle.’ ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
They all looked there like peacocks, while I looked like a barn-owl.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
"I've heard a barn-owl give a screech just over my head which made me nearly jump out of my skin. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1954)
It you can’t, hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl, and we will do what we can.” ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1938)
They all looked there like peacocks, while I looked like a barn-owl. " ❋ Maksim Gorky (1902)
But as suddenly, a pair of wings flapped up in their faces with a whirring sound, and a barn-owl began to screech madly as she rose and flew through a hole in the roof. " ❋ Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1900)
The call to arms (and beaks) occurs after young barn-owl brothers Soren ( ❋ Unknown (2010)
