I told you to beware, that the chickens might come home to roost.
Young prairie-chickens have a much lighter meat and need not be so rare.
On young chickens there are pin-feathers; on fowls, there are long hairs.
Prairie-chickens have dark meat, and many epicures declare that they should be cooked quite as rare as canvasback ducks and that their flavor when so served is unsurpassed.
The dry-picked chickens are preferable to those which are scalded.
When the first brood of chickens is hatched, its serious depredations begin.
No danger of hawks carryin' off de chickens so long as de martins am around.
There was a small growth under his tongue like those chickens are sometimes afflicted with.
There's a steady market for dressed chickens and eggs at Fairbanks," said Mr. Lawson.
PAGE 20 hard-pressed fox had narrowly won his way: In spite of the author's attempt to shoot the fox that was stealing his chickens do you think the author would be glad if there were no foxes in his woods?
One might think, however, when the dogs are baying hard on the heels of a fox, that one's chickens would be safe enough for the moment from that particular fox.
Well, now," said Charles, "can there be a prettier sight than a hen with her chickens peeping out under her wings?
Arrange chickens in a hot casserole with one thinly sliced onion; one-half tablespoonful salt, and broth or boiling water to cover; cover casserole and simmer in oven until chicken is tender.
He learns that this nation supports at great cost a college of priests who know exactly the time when one should set sail and when one should give battle, by inspecting an ox's liver, or by the way in which the chickens eat barley.
If the enemy approaches, he does not give orders to his subjects to go to kill themselves for him by virtue of his certain knowledge and plenary power; he goes to battle himself, ranges his chickens behind him and fights to the death.
But you can kick 'em up and shoot 'em like chickens on the last day of the season.
Only I assure you he declares you can kick 'em up and shoot 'em like chickens on the last day of the season.
Thus I go out into the passageway and give my horse his oats, throw corn and stalks to the pigs and a handful of grain to Harriet's chickens (it's the only way to stop the cackling!
I hear my horse whinnying from the barn, the chickens begin to crow and cackle, and such a grunting and squealing as the pigs set up from behind the straw stack, it would do a man's heart good to hear!
Stealing chickens was this man's profession; and I suppose that he offered me the medium of exchange he was most accustomed to have about him.
One day a half-breed known as the Chicken Thief called on me and offered a dozen chickens for the adobe, but--not a chicken for the land!
It has been interesting to see thechickens scurry for cover whenever a noisy flock of blackbirds passes overhead on its way to the southland.
They seemed to think, if chickens think, that all the hawks in christendom were swooping down on their devoted heads, and stood not on the order of their going.
Rose, peering from under the low boughs toward the west, "and there are all those cows to milk and the chickens to feed!
Buchanan told me that they often catch chickens in this way, and find them excellent eating.
Mr Melville, all chickensmust be decadent, for all chickens are entirely selfish.
Den when de chickens come up to eat dey kotched 'em by de head an' wring hit off an' take all de chickens wid 'em.
He has his own little garden and chickens which he tends with great care.
The peasants and their children were idle, as a general thing, and the donkeys and chickens made themselves at home in drawing-room and bed-chamber and were not molested.
I remember that the day was clear and warm, where, in the sun, the barn doors stood open and the chickens ventured out to scratch about, where the sun had melted the snow.
Enough chickens to feed a darky camp-meeting were killed for the feast.
His first toy had been a rope with which, as a toddler, he had practised on the dogs and chickens about the ranch-yard.
The hens and chickens that had been pressed into the ranks of the circus performers were crowding round a swill-bucket which Moses had left tilted at a precarious angle on an upturned soap-box.
As many of the hens and chickens as could be persuaded were ushered into the yard to add to the numerical strength of the menagerie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chickens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
