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owlishly

adv. In an owlish manner.

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owlishly

adv. in an owlish manner; "the gentle-looking barrister peered owlishly around him"

Usage examples of "owlishly".

His eyes flickered open and he started, blinking owlishly around the cabin and then up at Mac.

Sinklar shook his head, running fingers anxiously through his mop of unruly black hair as he blinked owlishly at his image in the mirror.

Disturbed, a pair of sleeping egrets eyed them owlishly, irritated at the nocturnal interruption.

He glanced at the bedside clock, then regarded her owlishly, remembering his failure to advise her that he needed to arise at this hour and pleased with her initiative.

Friday, 18870722:1945 When he had raised her to her feet, the woman wiped foam from her eyes and regarded him owlishly.

Nobel Laureate if the probabilities collapsed properly onto their just attractor, peered owlishly at Dexter with the sweet bashful hopefulness of every teenage wannabee sf writer who had ever babbled his creative heart out to him at a con suite party or across an autograph session table.

She glanced aside to see three-year-old Tieg peerin g owlishly at Camlin over her right shoulder.

But he removed his sunglasses after a moment and stared at us owlishly, then studied the drydocks south of us, the western shore of the lake, the pier.

Dinsdale stood with his forepaws up on a chair, owlishly looking round like an old man disturbed in his club, a large chocolate Swiss roll drooping from his lips like a cigar.

Marty watched him owlishly from the edge of the lawn, under the wild plum tree, the monkey puppet hanging loose and grotesque on his hand.