2010, Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures, Dutton (2010), ISBN 9781101152454, page 48:In the picture Miss Elizabeth showed me the croc had little piggy eyes, not huge owly ones.
1988, Janette Oke, Winter Is Not Forever, Bethany House Publishers (2010), ISBN 9780764208027, page 16:I had no right to be owly and disagreeable with Willie.
1908, Vernon L. Kellogg, "The Vendetta", in Insect Stories, Henry Holt and Company (1908), page 55:Perhaps nice isn't the best word for him, but he certainly was an unusually imposing and fluffy-haired and fierce-looking brute of a tarantula. He had rather an owly way about him, as if he had come out from his hole too early and was dazed and half-blinded by the light.
