Citations:owlful


 * 1947,  I, page 17:
 * One, more owlful, does not bear repeating.
 * 1973,, “The Clearing” in Antæus, ed. Daniel Halpern, Villiers Publications, page 105:
 * Impenetrable growth surrounds him. // Owlful. Batful. // Great moths of prey.
 * 1984, Punch CCLXXXVI/ii, page 67:
 * Set menus at either £13 or £14 may include exemplary beef Wellington, Stilton-stuffed poussin, tender (but untenderised) pork fillet in sherry, baked Avon grilse, preceded by starters of, say, wild mushrooms, sauced and garlicked, flawless lasagne, or robust home-made soups, and followed by a gut-busting trolleyful of artericidal cream confections, of which Mrs Adcock will invariably force you to take two, leaving you to stagger into the owlful night on a self-promise of a week’s fat-farming, which you will of course break.
 * 1995, an unknown author, “The Sacrifice of the Weird Sisters” in the New Statesman Society VIII, page 45:
 * Beyond the owlful barns, ley lines collide, // and sunder land from land. […]
 * 2001,, Misery Prefigured, , ISBN 0809323834, part three, “Rods and R.”, pages 40–41, lines 34–36:
 * […] What // is that on the unmooned owlful slope, // the silver movement five yards west of your glance?