What is "eagle-owl"

Usage examples of "eagle-owl".

Kuari was an eagle-owl, a bird which dwarfed all other birds except the bondbird eagles.

But it was to the vaults of Eagle's Howe, or King's Howe, that the urgent summons of the Coirnead came winging like an eagle-owl on the night wind.

He was reflecting upon the delightful possibilities - the West African eagle-owl, the blue plantain-eater, the many brilliant weavers and sun-birds, conceivably even the potto, when he heard the cry 'All hands to weigh anchor,' an expected order that was instantly followed by the bosun's call and the powerful voices of his mates roaring 'All hands to weigh anchor' down the hatchways, and he hurried off to be out of the way: well did he know the frightful eagerness and activity set off by this corninand - the swarms of men racing across the deck regardless of those who might be in their path, the cries, the stretching forth of ropes.