Former pullet

Usage examples of hen.

Cuthan, Earl of Bryn, for Taras and Bru Mardan, and all their thanes, swear to defend the rights of him holding Hen Amas, to march to war under his command, to gather levies and revenues, to acknowledge him lord and sovereign over its claims and courts and to abide by his judgments in all disputes.

It is very amorous, and if it were loose it would go after the hens, and kill all the cocks on the country-side.

Om de kransdieren moesten ze nu lachen en ze wisten inmiddels dat de beten van de slangenhalzen alleen pijnlijk en voor hen niet giftig waren, hoewel het diertje wel degelijk een gif had dat zijn prooi doodde.

Hij keurde hen geen blik waardig en vertraagde zijn pas niet, maar in het voorbijgaan had hij wel iets te zeggen.

Ali skittered about like an excited hen, pointing at the colonel and boasting to other servants that he was her master.

Any moment now, a hen might roar, and that would wake any sleeping bonder within hearing.

But owing to the ill-regulated conduct of the Killyboffin hens nothing except boxty was likely to meet them below.

Moreover, he had three cows in the byre, a pony in the stable, a pig lying with litter, a dozen hens, and four ducks.

Chinese ideographic code list, and codes bearing kata kana names, such as ta, ji, or hen, it relied in the main on four systems.

The horrible Jamiesons had left, but poor Coode still starved among his hens.

Every new-laid egg I could discover in the poultry-yard, quite warm and scarcely dropped by the hen, was a most delicious treat.

Betsy driest aanzien, haar uittartende, hen allen uittartende, die daar verrast waren, omdat zij hunne conventioneele wetten van fatsoen dorst te trotseeren.

De drie meiden en Willem, de knecht, volgden hen als een achterhoede en bleven vroolijk toekijken in den kleinen salon.

At the beginning of their acquaintance her interest in Markham had not been unlike that of the motherly hen in the doings of the newly hatched duckling with which she differed as to the practical utility of duckponds.

Nor can we tell here at any length how these mournful spinsters, the two surviving hens, made a wonder of and a show, spent their remaining years in eggless celebrity.