Their Weapons like to Lightning, came and went: / Our Souldiers like the Night-Owles lazie flight, / Or like a lazie Threſher with a Flaile, / Fell gently downe, as if they ſtrucke their Friends.
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Night owl
/ˈnaɪt aʊl/
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For nightowles ſhreeke where mounting larkes ſhould ſing.
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A night owl beat her pinions 'gainſt my head, / 'Till o' the ground I fell, wi' fright near dead!
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The well imitated cry of the night-owl, too frequent a guest in the wilderness that its call should be a subject of surprise, seemed to be a signal generally understood among them; [...]
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