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Usage examples of chickens.

In the far corner of the yard, the chickens were scratching and gossiping among themselves.

I suddenly perceived that I could not rightfully ask him to stay home and watch the chickens while I went adventuring.

There was always a market for chickens, and whatever he got for them he could save toward his fee.

I went to market with the boy twice, taking fledged chickens and my inks and dyes and such roots and herbs as I thought might be unusual there.

In the fall, we sometimes made a trade, a slaughter-pig in exchange for chickens or labor or smoked fish.

Nor could we both work that way, unless we were resigned to our own chickens and garden perishing from neglect.

Outside, I turned the chickens out for the day, and took the pony and the Fool's horse out to an open hillside facing the sea.

It was a tidy and prosperous stead, with chickens scratching in the side yard and three straw hives in the meadow behind it.

I go to my own tasks, as dull as they must seem to one who has a whole flock of chickens to tend and rows of beans to hoe.

I would have done as well to stay home and sell chickens and salt fish.

Might as well bury him, all he's fit for is to lie about in a dusty yard and watch chickens he's not permitted to kill.

He suited his actions to his thought, sprawling in the dappling shade of the birches while staring at the chickens intently.

When each of the dozen has a dozen chickens, you send the old hens back to the chappies you borrowed them from, with thanks for kind loan.

And after a bit, when the chickens grow up and begin to lay, all you have to do is to sit back in your chair and endorse the big cheques.

They were not masterpieces, and I have seen chickens pause before them in deep thought, as who should say, "Now what?