1 He was an owlish figure, sitting in the corner of the library.

2 Her new glasses make her look rather owlish.

3 He was an owlish man, with little round glasses.

4 With his owlish face, it is easy to understand why he was called "The Professor".

5 Yes, so catlike, owlish, aggressive and passive, hostile and amicable by turns.

6 He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep.

7 He looks grey, owlish , bespectacled, and glum.

8 He's short and slight, with owlish glasses, and he seems as comfortable talking to women as to men.

9 Instead the duty fell to Gao, an owlish bureaucrat with a wry sense of humor.

10 Thomas is five or six years younger than his brother, knocking seventy; he's tall, lean and a bit owlish.

11 "Everyone gets a piece of the action, " says DiBello, who has deep-set owlish eyes and a Philadelphia-accented baritone.

12 Tall and severely thin, with bent shoulders, receding gray hair, and owlish glasses, he looked like a seminarian, which he had studied to be before turning to politics.

13 But it's not: it's oval, with a vulnerable wide forehead and owlish eyes.

14 Scan a photo of the inauguration and you can just make him out, standing a few rows back from the new president. He looks grey, owlish, bespectacled and glum.

1 He was an owlish figure, sitting in the corner of the library.