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Sentence Examples The Tawny Owl can cater for up to 50 wedding guests and catering arrangements range from a five-course sit down meal to a finger buffet. Tawny eagles are abundant in East Africa and they feed on small mammals and gamebirds, such as francolins and guineafowl. Tawny Owl Nicki Paull is deaf herself and has volunteered to teach any of the brownies who are interested how to communicate using sign. The call of the Tawny Owl is the tu-whit tu-whoo immortalised by William Shakespeare. Heavily fleeced sheep hunkered down behind tussocks of tawny grass for shelter. Where the road had been cut through a rise, great chunks of sandstone were exposed, thick pieces, tawny as the landscape. The large tawny frogmouth, or mopoke, is found in most of Australia and in Tasmania. On sunny days, Ke'e is a lovely crescent of tawny sand crouched below an upsweeping ridge line. Other kinds of sweet wine are forms of fortified wines and ripaso-style wines, such as vin santo or succulent tawny ports. It's a complex drink and though the main distinctions are vintage, tawny and ruby, numerous subtleties range in between. Meanwhile, cool and tawny neutrals ground many collections with a natural and earthy element. Amanita fulva is tawny and has a volva that is not constricted and often stains rusty brown. Lions are large cats with short, tawny coats, white underparts, and long tails with a black tuft at the end. In flight fulvous shows a strong contrast between blackish underwings and tawny body, and a white rump band. Women removed tawny coats with their sharp furry frillings and set them in neat but un-fussy piles by the carved umbrella stand. Other possible wildlife you may encounter in the area are boobok owls, tawny frogmouths, and wambengers. In summer, the wapiti's coat is sleek and tawny brown, with a large buff-coloured rump patch. This is basically a vintage wine that has been aged in oak like a Tawny. She was pale, late thirties or so, with dark wiry hair spiked straight up in a tall, scary crew cut, and tawny skin. Alban was sturdy and tall for his age with tawny locks reaching down to his shoulders. Show More Sentences She grinned suddenly, her face lighting up, her eyes turning to tawny amber-green. When threatened, the aoudad stands motionless and is concealed by its tawny brown coat, which blends with the surrounding rocks. Some wines, however, such as oloroso sherry, tawny port, and Madeira, owe their character to deliberate exposure to oxygen. Following the Guardian story, readers have told us of their alleged sightings of a tawny brown, outsized cat around Leatherhead. He will be black, not the tawny colour of the female with her beautiful long kookaburra-like, chevron-marked tail feathers. Urban areas and areas where growth will occur are shown in mauve, pink or tawny brown, depending on the map. This is where modern California was born, when 19 th-century gold seekers swarmed across these tawny hillsides seeking treasure. Lions vary in colour from nearly white to deep ochre brown but tawny yellow is the commonest shade. Wet tawny curls framed her face and grazed her shoulders lightly, bangs falling over her forehead. Instead of blue, her eyes were a deep, tawny brown that complemented her tanned skin. Mavrodaphne is best known as a dessert wine that is akin to the flavor and aroma of tawny port. The fierce glisten of the candle caught the kitten's tawny eyes as she looked up. The batter looks just keen and the creamed sugar and shortening, evaporated milk and malted milk powder fluffs into tawny copper peaks. Her hair was thrown in a slightly messy ponytail that let tendrils of golden tawny hair fall in curls around her face. Although tawny owls are reputed to have a hoot, this one whistled, which is probably why it is often referred to in the books as a screech owl. Harry Potter had Hedwig as his pet owl but youngsters at a Bolton school went three better when an eagle owl, a tawny owl and a barn owl flew in. She glanced up to the heights of the castle battlements and saw a tall, tawny haired figure upon the uppermost heights. From the Monterey pine belt to bristlecone country, conifers yield cones whose tawny beauty is worth celebrating. So that ghostly form that appears in front of your car at night may very well be a tawny. Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt. Show More Sentences The colour palette encompasses charcoal greys, tawny autumnal greens, silver and white. Wood peckers, herons, tawny owls and wood warblers are common in the area. Tawny frogmouths Napoleon and Solo, for example, can't get enough of each other. In virtually every chapter the author begins by summarizing general facts about all birds and then leads into Tawny Frogmouths in particular. Children were thrilled to be able to stroke a beautiful barn owl, while an enormous eagle owl, a tawny owl, a kestrel and a turkey vulture called George looked on. They deployed into the teeth of a furious dust storm that ended in thunder and rain and left tents flattened and Kuwait City covered in tawny dust and mud. Sitting on the balustrade as well, but at the corner where he could lean against the wall, Impi's eyes were closed, his thick tawny mane catching the evening sunlight. The usual mustering scene shows tawny grass and anthills and a mob of red Brahmans moving slowly along, but over the page are stockmen with baseball caps and heavy shades. Port that has been left to age in wooden casks for six or more years begins to take on a tawny colour and a soft, silky character as the phenolics are polymerized. However, instead of wavy tawny hair, his was straight and golden brown. He had hair so black there was a blue sheen to it, and his eyes were an odd, bright green with a flash of tawny in the center, his skin an even golden brown tan. Feeding habits of sympatric Long-eared Owl Asio otus, Tawny Owl Strix aluco and Barn Owl Tyto alba in a Mediterranean coastal woodland. I asked, watching buzzards, white-backed vultures, and tawny eagles corkscrew skyward on thermals. Alongside a bony-headed, loose-lipped camel, a goat stands to attention, the shine of its wiry bushiness painted with patient genius, lock by tawny lock. In the more stabilized dune sections, the tawny sands flare with color, thanks to the blossoms of desert gold, pink desert sand verbena, and purple phacelia. He looked up as we approached and I was momentarily shocked by the gauntness, the almost metallic grayness that dusted what had once been a tawny coat. Now he has 10 birds of prey including barn owls, tawny owls, Harris hawks, sparrow hawks and a European eagle owl. Amontillado is a tawny colour with a nutty flavour, and oloroso becomes quite mahogany. In winter they turn a warm, tawny orange and the tree reaches its zenith in August when it is adorned with fruits like ripe Victoria plums. Gray Wolf came to his side and licked his neck, where fresh blood was crimsoning his tawny hide. Show More Sentences A pair of tawny frogmouths often sit in the trees outside our windows and a couple of years ago we discovered their nesting tree. There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel. They suggested cold wind caused the tawny colour of the Eskimos. The photographer Eric Hosking lost his left eye after attempting to photograph a tawny owl, which inspired the title of his 1970 autobiography, An Eye for a Bird. They include the white pelican, normally located in Romania, the isabelline wheatear, from Greece and the East, and the tawny pipit from Spain on Anglesey. Admittedly, you may find it uneasy among pinks and magentas, but surrounded with hot orange potentillas and tawny heleniums, the roses come into their own. Cougar is a large, tawny cat, Felis concolor, of North and South America. They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls. The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path. Its plumage is mottled tawny to brown with a barred tail and wings. Examples from Classical Literature To each floating cup, tawny or damasked, white or deepest cramoisy, the Rector called their attention. To each floating cup, tawny or damasked white or deepest cramoisy, the Rector called their attention. The black of wing and tail-feathers is less pure and edged with white or tawny. Suddenly, from the ruined garden above him on the brow of the slope, came the dread hunting cry of his old enemy, the tawny owl. In the river, on the opposite side from where the tawny owl lay, a stream drowns itself. Rob never spoke of the tawny owl without an effort, but he showed that he appreciated Dick's unspoken sympathy. We have known a tawny owl to kill and devour a Kestrel which had been kept in the same aviary with it. He glowered at his fate, and tugged his tawny moustache for some time in silence. Crepidotus fulvotomentosus Pk., is a pretty species with a tomentose cap and tawny scales, usually occurring singly. There was the tawny, but intelligent Mandingo, and by his side the Jolof of ebon hue. As the chain swung we saw the crate was really a clumsy cage in which ramped a huge and tawny form. The Cathedral of Palencia is of the same tawny yellow as the plains about it. The Fox, steel blue in the shade, becomes tawny as its namesake when its fur of rough waves is combed to redness in the sunlight. Saxon gobbles us with kisses, and nuzzles his nose, and we put our arms round his tawny neck. A boy brought me a tankard of tawny Munich beer, and, sipping it, I watched. Plant a drift of primula Blue Riband, Tawny Port or any of the purply bronze-leaved hybrids among dark hellebores and blue pulmonarias. There could be no doubt of his identity, with the light on his strong face and tawny hair. His dark, tawny skin, his blanket and features indicated that he was an aborigine. This tuft of tawny hair, too, is identical in character with that of the beast of Cuvier. In the centre of the table was a huge birthday cake for tawny Adonis. Show More Sentences He seemed to see the great gray piles of granite set in old Spanish towns amid a landscape tawny, wild, and windswept. It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. Then on the other side the windows glistened with the tawny glow of gold. Guest appearances include a tawny eagle, a lanners falcon and a harris hawk. My tawny Adonis was a far more soothing companion than Steve. Their coats were black and tawny, but yellowish-white beneath. The halo of her tawny hair stirred as I let myself drop by her side. The tawny owl has a large head, and is about fourteen inches in height. Rarest of all, we may sometimes stumble across the home of the tawny owl. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. Woodcock and tawny owls live in the wood and the green woodpecker and cuckoo are summer visitors. Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side. In the middle there was a bowl of tawny red and yellow chrysanthemums, and one of pure white, so fresh that the narrow petals were curved backwards into a firm white ball. Over a tawny shock of hair he had a hood drawn, much like that of a monk. He was dressed in the garb of a lawyer, with a gaban of tawny watered camlet over all and a montera cap of the same material, and mounted a la gineta upon a mule. Find more words! 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