Adjective : His thick glasses give him an owlish appearance. From Dictionary.com.
The American nodded with a kind of owlish solemnity. From Wordnik.com. [Partners In Crime]
The Canadian-born, "owlish" architect loses his cool with a reporter from the British newspaper the. From Wordnik.com. [Curbed] Reference
Zautzes gave back a stare more owlish than froggy. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Williams offered Sharpe an owlish gaze of surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
The owlish-faced Stone swiftly stopped the fawning. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Siegel: China, the Nobel Prize and the Road to Freedom] Reference
His owlish face brightened at her delighted reaction. From Wordnik.com. [Body Wave]
Ian hunched his shoulders and gave me an owlish look. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
The owlish spec glanced back down at her spinner's readout. From Wordnik.com. [The Mocking Program]
Brown, staring up at the edifice with his owlish spectacles. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Peter Himmel ambled up, owlish now and oratorically inclined. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
I indicated Ramses, who returned my gaze with an owlish stare. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
Leh Shin, with many owlish blinkings of his narrow eyes, asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
Another owlish overachiever cruised at a higher altitude, watching. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
Anthony was sitting up in bed, staring at her with owlish precision. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Ferris is very sinister beneath the owlish looks and the silken tone. From Wordnik.com. [Northlight]
Misha nodded, his eyes slightly owlish; he had had quite a few by now. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
“Beautiful morning,” he said gravely, squinting up his owlish eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
But if he thinks he can do anything with his owlish arty staring, let him stare. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
As long as I sleep on my own terribly night-owlish schedule, I am pretty wakeful. From Wordnik.com. [don't spoil my day, I'm miles away] Reference
He held her gaze in an owlish, accusing look, and she grinned in spite of herself. From Wordnik.com. [Antrax]
Behind the owlish glasses were eyes that were alternatively penetrating and twinkling. From Wordnik.com. [Claude Chabrol obituary] Reference
She struggled to a sitting posture and beamed with owlish significance upon her captors. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
"Sea level," he muttered to himself, pushing his large, owlish eyeglasses back into place. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builders]
Looked quite owlish as they quickly swiveled their heads to glare at me when I said hello. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Anya's pale eyes had turned darker, almost owlish, as she cradled the goblet in both hands. From Wordnik.com. [Colors of Chaos]
A gaunt, wiry six-four, his thick mane of gray hair was brush-cut over deep-set owlish eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
"I need your expertise, pal," Marla replied, picturing his pasty complexion and owlish eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Hair Raiser]
Even his owlish look, once a mark of intellect and seriousness, has become open to ridicule. From Wordnik.com. [Dream On, Democrats] Reference
Skogel put his hands on the counter and leaning forward scrutinized Efraim with owlish intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
All. Put his glass down, wiped his mouth and stood there, his eyes growing to owlish proportions. From Wordnik.com. [The Method « Lab Kat] Reference
She had trimmed gray hair, a diminutive figure, big, owlish glasses and a clipped British accent. From Wordnik.com. [Lee Woodruff: Gratitude] Reference
Blinking and owlish, Gord tried to regain his vision, but his eyes were filled with dancing spots. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
This owl imitated Trumpkin's voice rather well, and there were sounds of owlish laughter all round. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Chair]
He was struck, not for the first time, by the owlish solemnity of the other members of the Cabinet. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
In spite of anxiety it amused me to see old Cla-cla regarding me fixedly with owlish eyes and lips moving. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mansions] Reference
Then she smiled unwillingly, for he was looking at her with owlish sentimentality varied with a silly spasmodic smile. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
He was also, in his later years (big head, owlish eyeglasses), what W.B. Yeats would have a called a "smiling public man.". From Wordnik.com. [A Man Who Knew Everyone] Reference
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