What is "owllike"

Usage examples of "owllike".

Dazed and gasping, she blinked in owllike confusion as he wrapped her in the ice-speckled bedroll.

He was a fairly small man, immaculately dressed, but beginning to show his age, with thinning gray hair and heavy owllike glasses.

His dim, owllike profile had the same look, sad and still, as he had had saying good-bye to Giraldus.

Through these spectacles, Crayle peered with owllike eyes and methodically tore up the paper that had announced the time of his return.

Miller was coming slowly out of the stall, examining the damp spot on his hat, keeping his owllike face blank, but the eyes behind the Coke-bottle lenses were seething.

She regarded the two priests with a gaze as penetrating as that of the visitors, and perhaps more uncanny, at least to the stranger, since her hazel eyes looked at him through a pair of round glass lenses that magnified what was behind them, giving her an owllike stare.

He had a look half pedant, half bully, and he spoke with a one-quarter-drunken, owllike solemnity.