Hens
[henz]
Examples
- By-and-by, after an anxious search, his father found him sitting in a nest he had made in the barn, filled with goose-eggs and hens' eggs he had collected, trying to hatch them out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Chicks hatched by incubators, if rightly cared for, do better than with hens, and are stronger and more vigorous. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Hens that had not had chicken cholera could be rendered immune by a series of attenuated inoculations gradually increasing in strength. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- 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 .
- She knew the sequestered spots where the hens laid their eggs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was looking for sage hens. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- HIS breakfast hour was half-past six--and HE went to bed with the cocks and hens! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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