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Sentences ending with hen

Then I suppose you'll finish your plan of coloring hen's eggs by feeding a peculiar diet to the hen? [5]
The invalid guessed what was passing in his little daughter's mind, and said, encouragingly: "Ask the hen. [10]
His idea was to keep woman in her place--a good idea when not carried too far--but he did not know what her place is, and he wanted to put a sort of restraint upon her emancipation by coupling her with an emancipated hen. [4]
One was a singular "handiness" about doing anything and everything, from laying out a railroad or organizing a political party, down to sewing on buttons, shoeing a horse, or setting a broken leg, or a hen. [5]
One might alter Shenstone's well-known epitaph to suit such a case:-- Hen! [6]
A hen without her chickens was but half a hen. [6]
It is false as to the hen. [4]
The driver crouched among the straw in a basket behind the horses, like a brooding hen. [10]

Sentences containing hen two or more times

The crowing hen was of more value than the silent hen, provided she crowed with discretion; and she was likely to be a favorite, and not at all to come to some bad end. [4]
Nobody denies to the hen maternal instincts or domestic proclivities, but what an ill example is a hen community! [4]

More example sentences with the word hen in them

So it is with birds; but many cock birds do not so much pursue the hen, as display their plumage, perform strange antics, and pour forth their song in her presence. [1]
Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. [5]
A crowing hen was always an object of interest and distinction; she was pointed out to visitors; the owner was proud of her accomplishment, he was naturally likely to preserve her life, and especially if she could lay. [4]
Nobody expects chivalric virtues and the accompanying expenditure from this simple fellow; yet he practises them, and, when he once opens his hand, people stare at him as they do at flying fish and the hen that lays a golden egg. [10]
He had distinctly understood that, through Semestre, he was to lose a nice cheese, and, when the housekeeper returned, ordered a hen to tell each person present how many years he or she had lived in the world. [10]
Semestre told Chloris to repeat what the little man had said, and was already reflecting whether she should not let him have the second cheese, in consideration of the "honorable lady," when the hen began to scratch again. [10]
Rural, too; for there was a pig and a small donkey and a hen anchored out, close at hand, by cords to their legs, on a spot that purported to be grassy. [5]
Is the little tavern, the Hen and Chickens, on the Liffeyside, still going? [11]
The Saskatchewan flowed swiftly between its verdant banks, an eagle went floating away to the west, robins made vocal a solitary tree a few yards away, troopers moved backwards and forwards across the square, and a hen and her chickens came fluttering to the threshold. [11]
The hen, when she has laid an egg, "repeats the same note very often, and concludes with the sixth above, which she holds for a longer time" (26. [1]
The time Hen Scovil fell down the chimbly and crippled his back for life, everybody said it would be a lesson to him. [5]
The cook began running hither and thither in the passage like a frightened hen, just as Alpatych entered. [2]
When you have repeated the hen and the inscription until you are perfectly sure of them, draw merely the hen's head the rest of the thirty-five times, saying over the inscription each time. [5]
This same naturalist ordered the sparrows, which deprived the house-martins of their nests, to be shot; but the one which was left, "be it cock or hen, presently procured a mate, and so for several times following. [1]
The hen is, or should be, an annual. [4]
Wild ducks settled on the lake not far from him with a swish and flutter; a coyote ran past, veering as it saw the recumbent figure; a prairie hen rustled by with a shrill cluck, but he seemed oblivious to all. [11]
A sitting hen on her nest is calm, but hopeful; she has faith that her eggs are not china. [4]
Except the sleeping old man, everybody was at work, but the place was very still and peaceful, nevertheless; so still that the distant cackle of the successful hen smote upon the ear but little dulled by intervening sounds. [5]
The mind broods like a hen on eggs. [4]
When I waked it must have been near noon, so I lay still for a time, listening to the cheerful noise of fowls and cattle in the yard without, and to the clacking of a hen above me. [11]
And woman's destiny is not linked with that of the hen, nor to be controlled by a proverb--perhaps not by anything. [4]
You are unfriendly in all your acts, for when our brown hen flew over to you yesterday she was driven away with stones. [10]
Ferguson, however, describes how a quarrelsome hen was subdued by the gentle courtship of a Shanghai cock. [1]
From this time his mother had him more carefully guarded than before, she herself even followed him about anxiously, like a hen who has hatched a duckling, and forbade him to build any more stone-houses. [10]
I could imagine him there, because I could imagine myself there; and I think I should not have been interested in a hen that was laying an egg; my interest would have been with the parties that were laying the bombshells. [5]
She looked at him several times anxiously, and passed backwards and forwards behind him as a hen moves upon the flank of her brood. [11]
Before the world her head was still held high, but in the attic-room, and out on the prairies far away, where only the coyote or the prairie- hen saw, her head drooped, and her eyes grew heavy with pain and sombre protest. [11]
Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way. [6]
Well, back I'll go to the Hen and Chickens, to find a good dinner there. [11]
Now you can go down again to the tents, not a hen is missing. [10]
An egg was found in the court of the palace; a hen had laid it close to a pillar. [10]
A hen that can lay and crow is a 'rara avis'. [4]
Man is no better acquainted with the hen, as a being, than he was when the first chicken was hatched. [4]
When completed, the bed looked somewhat as if a hen had scratched it: there was that touching unevenness about it. [4]
And it should be parenthetically said here that the hen who can crow and cannot lay is not a good example for woman. [4]
You cackle like a young hen with her first egg. [11]
Now there is a man who ought to be entirely satisfied with the grandeurs, emoluments and activities of a hen farm-- If you ask me to pity Orion, I can do that. [5]
But in such a communistic body it is a wise hen who knows her own chicken. [4]

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