Chickens
[tʃikinz]
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To dream of seeing a brood of chickens, denotes worry from many cares, some of which of which will prove to your profit. Young or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises, but to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength. To see chickens going to roost, enemies are planning to work you evil. To eat them, denotes that selfishness will detract from your otherwise good name. Business and love will remain in precarious states.
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Examples
- Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In one instance it was reported that a few men of Sherman's army passed a house where they discovered some chickens under the dwelling. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The hens were pecking round it, some chickens were balanced on the drinking trough, wagtails flew away in among trucks, from the water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Chloe stood handling them over abstractedly; it was quite evident that the chickens were not what she was thinking of. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She apportioned the sweetbreads, jellies, chickens; their quantity and order. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He made the salad; and uncorked the Champagne; and carved the chickens; and ate and drank the greater part of the refreshments on the tables. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Jo talks about the country where we hope to live sometime--the real country, she means, with pigs and chickens and haymaking. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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