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The next two cases contain the howlets, including the Tengmalm's owl of the north of Europe; the Javan bay owl, and the barn white owls of various countries.

From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Jerrold, W. Blanchard

Some fourteen or sixteen years, even until, though she also brought something with her, they had sinned all away, and parted as poor as howlets.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

Fearful soughs the bourtree bank, The rifted wood roars wild and dreary, Loud the iron yate does clank, And cry of howlets makes me eerie.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

"If you bring these strange looks, and this stranger silence, into festivity, we shall wish you had abode in the marshes seeking for herons, or rather for woodcocks and howlets."

From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, Sir

How the trees, the tall companions, communed together in their heights among the stars! how the burns tinkled in the grasses and the howlets mourned.

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