howlet

And did not I fear for thy sake, I would not let a single sun arise before making his city a ruined heap wherein raven should croak and howlet hoot, and jackal and wolf harbour and loot; nay I had removed its very stones to the back side of Mount Kaf.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

A howlet, man! — an absolute owl, whom I am ashamed of!

Quentin Durward 2008

Perhaps an howlet or a bat or some other furtive creature.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

Panurge was still feeding his eyes with the sight of the pope-hawk and his attendants, when somewhere under his cage he perceived a madge-howlet.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

It is no madge-howlet, no she-thing on my honest word; but a male, and a noble bird.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

It is no madge-howlet, no she-thing on my honest word; but a male, and a noble bird.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Panurge was still feeding his eyes with the sight of the pope-hawk and his attendants, when somewhere under his cage he perceived a madge-howlet.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

They thought that Polly's frock and Digory's Norfolk suit and the Cabby's howlet hat were as much parts of them as their own fur and feathers.

The Magician's Nephew Lewis, C. S. 1955

"But I was not thinking of going there to-night," she added, and the howlet in the bush beside me hooted at my ignominy.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

He stands by a roofless tower, where "the howlet mourns in her dewy bower," and "sets the wild echoes flying," and adds to a perfect picture of the scene his famous vision of "Libertie."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various