The cowled head turned in the direction of Grianne. From Wordnik.com. [Morgawr]
He stood behind them, robed and cowled, bent with age. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
Their bright costumes were now replaced by cowled dark robes. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]
The cowled one walked slowly, his face bent to the written page. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
The shapes were dogs, then men, cowled and robed, then animals again. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle]
The boy's cowled head swung round to him in quick hope and understanding. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
These brown-cowled gentlemen are not the only ones who carry the tin box. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
What troopers, and beggars, and cowled monks, and wayfarers had sat there!. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Flush knew, came the cowled and sinister figure of midnight — the hooded man. From Wordnik.com. [Flush: a biography] Reference
A brother of the Benedictines, habited and cowled, who had used him like a son. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
Shortly, the goblin returned with a cowled figure who clutched a large, ancient book. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
"Fidelis …" The boy's cowled head swung round to him in quick hope and understanding. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
Coleridge slunk back into the darkness, drawing his black cowled cassock close about him. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Famous]
But the Moravians know nothing of chancels, tapers, cowled heads, censers, altars or nuns. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
"What does that black-hearted, black-cowled, blackguard want?" wondered my wife, worriedly. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Niella looked enough like Aviendha to startle at first glance in that deep-cowled white robe. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
The cowled head inclined modestly, the oval face was hidden in shadow, but there was no voice. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
The King of An walked slowly toward Him, a tall man robed and cowled like a master or a wraith. From Wordnik.com. [Harpist in the Wind]
Mary stepped off the boat onto a carpet of spongy green grass and was met by a tall cowled figure. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
The cowled alien was sitting up, her hand still gripping one of the wands, now a half-melted ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Little cowled figures they seemed at first, going with a rolling motion and as fast as flying birds. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
The Hylar reached down and roughly tore away the cowled robe that cov-ered Tale Splintersteel's head. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
Three stories tall, a narrow brick building, cowled there by midnight, in accord with a noirish romance. From Wordnik.com. [Roanne's Dream] Reference
"Garry, glad you could make it!" he cowled out spontaneously, but Garry's face remained without expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Thunder]
It was disconcerting to receive by way of reply only silence, and the courteous inclination of the cowled head. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
Few begin with their leading lady and two dancers cowled in black like executioners while an overture plays out. From Wordnik.com. [Janelle Monáe] Reference
"Man, ye must hae been hot on't!" said the servant, shaking his cowled head till the tassel danced above his temple. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Bacon prevents the ceremony by whisking his cowled brother away, and the furious prince hurries back to Fressingfield. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
The grim towers rise boldly without ornament or decoration of any kind, and are cowled by a peculiarly strange roofing. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
One last scene showed a procession of torch-bearing cowled figures crossing a huge central plaza in front of the temple. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
And if you have seen the truth, elder brother "-- the cowled heads swung to Ashe --" then there may be no future for any of us. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Heavy maroon robes with black sleeves and cowled shoulders fostered the impression that his sticklike frame was bulkier than it really was. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
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