Fowls

Examples

• But I'm always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Canvasback ducks are considered the finest of the water-fowls for the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We know there the quantity of milk our neighbour takes and espy the joint or the fowls which are going in for his dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There were no children, no servants, no fowls. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She's such a manager of fowls, you have no idea. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• What I have said as to the temporary preservation of fish by fishmongers applies equally to the preservation of meat and fowls by butchers and poulterers. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Now, Joe, the fowls. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A middling farmer will there sometimes have four hundred fowls in his yard. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• One can't eat fowls of a bad character at a high price. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The legs of the fowls, too, are longer than could be desired, and extremely scaly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I laid in a stock of boiled flesh, of rabbits and fowls, and took with me two vessels, one filled with milk and the other with water. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Look at Ma,' whispered Lavinia to Bella when this was done, and they stood over the roasting fowls. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But perhaps he wished them to have fat fowls. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But what,' said Bella, as she watched the carving of the fowls, 'makes them pink inside, I wonder, Pa! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled them ever since I was a nipper? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Wery good little dinner, sir, they can get ready in half an hour--pair of fowls, sir, and a weal cutlet; French beans, 'taturs, tart, and tidiness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The stopped fowls going round again, Mrs. Bagnet closes her eyes in the intensity of her relief. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Quebec and Malta lay the cloth for dinner, while Woolwich, serving, as beseems him, under his father, keeps the fowls revolving. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The French eat a good many fowls--skinny fowls, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The speckled fowls were so numerous that Mr. Brooke observed, Your farmers leave some barley for the women to glean, I see. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Well, Mrs. Fitchett, how are your fowls laying now? George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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