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Letter "O" » owl
«People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.»
Author: Edward Jeffrey
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People
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Keywords:
canary,
canary bird,
clergy,
eagle,
friendliness,
owl,
sparrow,
swan,
Swans,
The Owl,
The Sparrow,
The Swan
«And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,/ And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.»
«He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.»
«I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.»
«But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, / And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, / And every raven after his kind, / And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, / The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, / And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, / And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
cormorant,
hawk,
hawks,
Heron,
lapwing,
ossifrage,
owl,
raven,
ravens,
swan,
The Owl,
The Raven,
The Ravens,
The Swan,
The Vulture,
vulture
«Can grave and formal pass for wise, When Men the solemn Owl despise?»
«Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.»
«And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, / And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; / Every raven after his kind; / And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, / And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, / And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, / And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
cormorant,
eagle,
fowls,
hawk,
hawking,
hawks,
Heron,
lapwing,
ossifrage,
owl,
raven,
ravens,
swan,
The Eagle,
The Owl,
The Raven,
The Ravens,
The Swan,
The Vulture,
vulture
«A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Keywords:
bloodied,
bloodiest,
bloody,
buzzard,
buzzards,
confounded,
confounding,
confounds,
hawk,
hawking,
hawks,
owl,
popinjay,
solemn,
The Owl
«Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so»
Author: Lord Byron
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Keywords:
blast,
blasted,
blasting,
hideous,
horrid,
midnight,
notes,
owl,
phrase,
portentous,
sadder,
songs,
The Midnight,
The Owl,
woe