Farmyard fowl

Usage examples of rooster.

Saltbush rode before -- Old Rooster Hall was a blithesome man, when he thought of the treat in store.

Men was, beseften ze nu, bij de bouw uitgegaan van een soort rooster, een rechtlijnig systeem van met goede, zware keien geplaveide hoofdstraten, plus een systeem van kanalen die de stad in wijken opdeelden en waarover vanaf het platteland of de oceaan binnenkomende goederen konden worden vervoerd naar fabrieken en distributiecentra.

M808B Scorpion Main Battle Tanks, or MBTs, which rumbled down off the ramps, and threw dirt rooster tails up off their powerful treads as they growled into position within the screen established by the Warthogs.

The acceleration pushed him back into the seat, and as he straightened out of the turn, the wind threw the high rooster tail of spray out ahead of him, and heavy drops of water stung his face and knocked his black hair down onto his forehead.

The larch trees with their broken backs, the enormous black sky streaked with fistfuls of congealed fat, the abandoned Poor House that looked like a barn, the great brown dripping box of the Lutheran church bereft of sour souls, bereft of the hymn singers with poke bonnets and sunken and accusing horse faces and dreary choruses, a few weather-beaten cottages unlighted and tight to the dawn and filled, I could see at a glance, with the marvelous dry morality of calico and beans and lard, and then a privy, a blackened pile of tin cans, and even a rooster, a single live rooster strutting in a patch of weeds and losing his broken feathers, clutching his wattles, every moment or two trying to crow into the wind, trying to grub up the head of a worm with one of his snubbed-off claws, cankerous little bloodshot rooster pecking away at the dawn in the empty yard of some dead fisherman .

No larger than I, she was like a fragile doll on whose neck had been set, most incongruously, the large head of Cyrus, the curve to whose Achaemenid nose so resembled that of a rooster I had got to know in our courtyard that I almost expected to see nostrils like slits set atop the bridge.

Wash reached the cover of the Aleut accused by him of aiming directly to finish the Shanghai rooster, and before that startled aborigine could escape, he was disarmed by the black man and dragged across the intervening space to the fort.

Henry, the old rooster, was now sporting a bandanna around his neck and from the shape of the stick the little boy held in his hand, Althea speculated that the old bird had just robbed a train or busted into a bank.

Rebecca Mary hunted bugs and angleworms and arranged them temptingly in rows, but the big, white rooster passed them by with a feeble peck or two.

He stood, not speaking, reminding her of a little blond banty rooster.

In spite of that he drew in a breath and puffed like a banty rooster, prepared to take issue with Mary.

He glared across at Hwoshien, the two men regarding each other like a couple of irritated banty roosters.

Ric thought of a banty rooster parading before a barnyard of worshiping hens.

Tairen, though Rand stood a head taller, but he always reminded Rand of a banty rooster, all puffed out chest and strutting.

He rounded on Daise, all puffed up like a banty rooster ready to fight a mastiff.