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Definition of Owleries
1. owlery [n] - See also: owlery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Owleries
Literary usage of Owleries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Needless to say of the Comic engineer that he is unfair, perversely exaggerative,
reiterative, on the owleries ..."
2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"4 He has his Herculean battle, his Master and he have, with the owleries and the
vulturous Law-Pedantries,—which I always love Friedrich for detesting as he ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"For indeed he was apt to be of swift abrupt procedure, disregardful of owleries;
and gave scope for misunderstanding in the course of his life. ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"Needless to say of the Comic engineer that he is unfair, perversely exaggerative,
reiterative, on the owleries of poor Maupertuis; — it is his function to ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"... pictures of triumphal processions, arches, bonfires, illuminations, rich
presents, gorgeous equipages, state-beds, ' royal poultry-houses, owleries, ..."
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