In the parable, the fowls that came and devoured the good seed, were, we know, evil spirits.
Dark-legged fowls are best for roasting, as their flesh is moister and better flavored cooked in this way than the white-legged ones, which from their greater daintiness of appearance are to be preferred for boiling.
Over-fed fowls are often a mass of greasy fat, which melts in the cooking and spoils the flavor of the bird.
Again, guinea-pigs do not come from Guinea, on the west coast of Africa, though guinea-fowls do so.
A hurst was a wood or grove; a shaw was a shelter forfowls and animals.
According to Moses, God made up his mind not only to destroy the people, but the beasts and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air.
In the first chapter of Genesis the "green herb" was given for food to the beasts, fowls and creeping things.
He must have lived one Mosaic day before there were any trees, and another Mosaic day before the beasts and fowls were created.
Of the fowlsalso of the air seven and seven, the male and the female.
The next question is, how many beasts, fowls and creeping things did Noah take into the ark?
Why did he say "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air"?
Of fowlsalso of the air by sevens, the male and the female.
I have learned to take a most intelligent interest in fowls and Nietzsche; and more and more as the days pass do I like and admire our host and hostess.
She was so very good and quiet, and careful of the linen, and clever about the cookery and fowls and bacon-curing, that people used to laugh, and say she would never look at a bachelor until her mother ordered her.
But the fowls would take no notice of it, except to cluck for barley; and the maidens, though they had liked him well, were thinking of their sweethearts as the spring came on.
John the Baptist and his cousins, with the wool and hyssop, are for mares, and ailing dogs, and fowls that have the jaundice.
There was a sense of abundance in the sight of fowls tiptoeing about the verandas, and to meet a chicken in the parlor was a sort of guarantee that we should meet him later on in the dining-room.
The President and two others went gunning for birds, and brought down one hundred and forty-eight fowlswith three shots.
It seemed as if all the fowls of the forest were gathered in the boughs of that tree.
Goats and sheep are valued at three dollars, ducks at half a dollar each, and fowls at half a dollar a pair.
On their way they met several hundreds of people of both sexes and all ages, with a great number of bullocks, sheep, and goats, together with fowls and pigeons, which were carried on the head in neat wicker baskets.
Their determination of departing was not, however, to be shaken, although the entrails of some fowls which the chief consulted, declared that the time of their departure was very inauspicious.
They had likewise a couple of fowls and two sheep, so that they were of opinion, they should have food enough for all hands for three weeks or a month at least.
At first, a piece of iron-hoop about six inches long, would purchase a pair of fowls or four yams, so great was the value which the natives attached to iron.
Fowls one penny each, and other things in proportion, so that the victualling of thirty men was not more than eighteen pence a day, including yams and rice.
Mr. Park was shown the very spot where his remains wore abandoned to the fowlsof the air.
Fowls have now almost disappeared in the country, owing to the sultan having appropriated all he could find for the consumption of his own family.
On another island are men overgrown with feathers, like the fowlsof the air.
Out of it she took, first of all, a little china plate and a delicate silver drinking-cup, and then an immense dish, in which two whole fowls ready carved lay stiffened in their jelly.
Then we sat down, and the two fowls appeared, brought in by Marchas, who chose to wait on them, as to sit down as a guest, to this ridiculous repast.
Three daring fowls jumped one after the other into her lap, seized a bit of peel, and then ran away as fast as their legs would carry them with it in their beak.
Fowls clucked and strutted in the stables; and the coach-houses and sheds were overrun with grass.
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind; of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
The beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, in common with man, enjoy the benefits of an animal life.
I sold from my yard to a jobber six young and lean fowls for four-and-twenty shillings,--fowls for which two years ago the same man would not have given a shilling apiece.
There was one swan of immense size, which moved about among the lesser fowls like a stately, full-rigged ship among gunboats.
Swans and various rare water-fowl were swimming on a piece of water, which was green, by the by, and when the fowls dived they stirred up black mud.
The cockerels were to be discouraged, but the breeding of purefowls was to be encouraged!
To keep fowls in warm weather, take out the heart and liver and parboil them, set them aside in a cool place, to be used in the gravy.
Some persons think fowls much better not to be washed; but they cannot be clean without.
Young fowls have a tender skin, smooth legs, and the breast bone readily yields to the pressure of the finger.
Wash the fowls as clean as possible from the blood, and plunge one at a time into a kettle of boiling water for five minutes, moving it about, that the water may penetrate every part.
The feet and legs of old fowls look as if they had seen hard service in the world.
Fowls on the back, and if there is more than one, with the legs toward the carver.
Meantime, the fowls which had been only slightly affected by the old cultures were carefully preserved.
When he returned he inoculated {310} somefowls with the cultures of chicken cholera which he had left behind.
This germ was cultivated for a number of generations on artificial media and never failed to produce the disease when fowls had been inoculated.
He proceeded to practical applications of the new theory by providing old cultures for the inoculation of fowls in districts where chicken cholera produced serious ravages.
The fowls suffered from some slight symptoms and then recovered.
Other fowls promptly died, exhibiting all the characteristic symptoms of chicken cholera.
Acting upon this advice, I asked Mr M'Swat to put a paling fence round the house, as it was useless trying to keep the house respectable while the fowls and pigs ran in every time the door was opened.
The tea and scraps, of which there was any amount, remained on the floor, to be picked up by the fowls in the morning.
With this idea in my head, sinking ankle-deep in the dust, and threading my way through the pigs and fowls which hung around the back door, I went in search of my master.
He was inclined to look with favour upon this proposition, but his wife sat upon it determinedly-said the fowls would lose the scraps.
Even if the fowls were tender, impossible to make an impression with such a knife as this.
Nobody to look after the fowls properly, I suppose.
He therefore that gave life and body will assuredly give food and raiment: he that feedeth the fowls of the air and arrayeth with such beauty the lilies of the field.
The megapode seems to delight in flying in the face of laws to which ordinary fowls are obedient.
Domestic fowls learn of his ways, and are wise in their fearlessness of him.
Although there is no permanent fresh water, the pencil-tailed rat leaves numerous tracks on the sand, and scrub fowls keep the whole surface perpetually raked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fowls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
