howlet

Will the night send a howlet or a bat?

My dear friend, I knew, had his own difficulties, though he was not exactly as poor as a howlet.

Perhaps an howlet or a bat or some other furtive creature.

That St Withold's of Burton is a howlet's nest worth the harrying.

"I was both aweary and sleepy and also as poor as a howlet, and all that the wicked witch knew.

This book also contains some of the region's best known traditional songs including "The bonnie keel laddie" and "The Jenny Howlet"

In the same year he published a reply to Robert Parsons, who under the name of John Howlet had dedicated his Brief Discourse to Queen Elizabeth.

When you are weary and sleepy and hungry as a howlet, and, Madam Bubble and her three daughters make a ring round you, what do you do?

He will not be shootin' at any little staggie, but takin' a sizeable beast, and it's not a howlet could be tellin' a calf from a stag in these da-ark nights.

Although no tales of heady potions containing lizard's legs, howlet's wing or other tinctures of the Devil survived the Salem trials, it is easy to imagine that the pots routinely simmering in the town's fireplaces might have incited suspicion.

So time went by, while I grew stronger daily; and now it was ordained by the leech, a skilful man, that I might leave my bed, and be clothed, and go about through the house, and eat stronger food, whereof I had the greatest desire, and would ever be eating like a howlet.