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n. (wild turkey English)
Usage examples of "wild turkeys".
I once saw a very beautiful little Shoshone girl, about ten years old, the daughter of a chief, when her horse was at full speed, kill, with her bow and arrow, in the course of a minute or two, nine out of a flock of wild turkeys which she was in chase of.
Wild orchids, gnarls of cypress knees, circlets of sun slanting down onto green marsh water, a half acre of-wind moving across the grass flats, fading and dying, throaty gossip of wild turkeys, fading life of a boated tarpon, angelfish-batting their eye lashes moving coy and elusive between the sea fans, the full, constant, mind-warping, roaring, whistling scream of full hurricane.
Several times we saw wild turkeys, but it was deer I wanted, and more than one.
Henry then went with his cousins into the house, and explained to them that as they were in pursuit of the wild turkeys, Oscar had stopped suddenly and commenced baying.
On the other hand, wild turkeys were wily and difficult to kill, and so far as I knew, Roger had never managed to bag one before.
Up at the head where the canyon boxed she flushed a flock of wild turkeys.
This act won Storky's instant devotion to Matty Kate and, as Posey had not before seen a white lady working so closely - and efficiently - with black people, he was agog at Matty Kate's obvious show of interest in their world and listened excitedly as she explained that she wanted wild turkeys, chestnut stuffing, cranberry jelly, candied yams, being careful to ask both Storky and Posey for their own suggestions on the preparations for these holiday foods.
In the bottom, and in places along the crests of the cliffs that hemmed in the canyon-like valley, there were groves of tangled trees, tenanted by great flocks of wild turkeys.
The birds closely resembled wild turkeys, whose prototypes were doubtless the progenitors of the wild turkeys of the outer crust.
The next morning Rich Jefferson, Doc Rosario and I set out for the neighboring Stooptown to barter for wild turkeys.
Back in the days when moon-shining had been popular, and there had been wild turkeys in the surrounding hills, there had been a degree of prosperity.
One of the boys, White Crow, was so good with snares that he had caught several wild turkeys.
He described our ride in the kind of detail I'd seldom heard --peculiar rocks he'd seen in the road, strange galls on tree trunks, a clutch of wild turkeys, none of which I'd seen and he hadn't bothered to mention.