I'm going to have a dog and a cat and maybe some hens and chickens, too.
So Grandfather obediently repeated, William Ti Trimity, he's a good fisherman; Catches his hens and puts them in pens.
But the cow was left behind them, and Susan called Phil to look at the poultry farm, with its ducks and geese, its hens and chickens, cackling cheerfully and running about in amiable confusion.
Place the two bars between the legs of the hens and insert thru the holes 1" nails, bending their ends back to form a loose joint.
Take the upright and the pans, and fasten the lower end of the upright to the middle of the upper bar so that each pan will tilt when the hens peck.
Enlarge the two lower holes in legs of the hens to the size of a 1" nail.
The first time I saw her was at a wedding in Karnes, Lochow, and she was the handsomest woman in the room, and there were sixty people at the wedding from all parts, and sixty-nine roastedhens at the supper.
Good fat hens were bought for a byza each, which does not exceed a penny; and yet some of our people said that we were imposed upon, as we ought to have got every thing for half the money.
I bought likewise a small goat, and the master bought five small hens at the other town.
Their cocks and hens are the largest I ever saw, and both the natives and the Mahometans who dwell there, take great delight in cock-fighting, on which they venture large sums.
And hens asleep on the perch, they say, Cackle sometimes in a startled way, As if they were dreaming a dream that mocks The lope and whiz of a fleeting fox!
Hens took after her as naturally as after the soaring beetle; geese pursued her as if she were a fleeting tadpole; ducks, turkeys, and guinea fowl camped upon her trail with tireless pertinacity.
I omitted to tell you," said the cock, "that the seat you happen by the merest chance to occupy is a contested one, and has been fruitful ofhens to this vexatious weasel.
If you can, you should prevent her from ever supposing that they are good to eat, otherwise she may take a liking to poultry, and seize every opportunity of helping herself to the hens and chickens of your neighbours.
Land and water rails are available; and water-hens are perhaps the favourite objects of pursuit by a hawk that is not quite first-rate.
Water-hens are a rather favourite quarry for the female sparrow-hawk, as well as for the goshawk, when she is not a very distinguished performer.
Males should always be tried first at partridges or pheasants; and if they are not good enough for such quarry, may be degraded to water-hens and the like.
Landrails and water-hens make a more or less easy flight.
Boris was silent, and watched through the window how the hens strutted about, how the pigs wallowed in the mire, how the cat was stalking a pigeon.
She called to the birds to come to breakfast, and cocks, hens and pigeons fell to, looking round every moment as if they feared treason, and then again falling to.
Gus hoped his hens would get one; but somebody else outdid him, to the great indignation of Laura and Lotty, who had fed the white biddies faithfully for months.
It devours the eggs and nestlings of other wild birds, and not only that, it destroys so many eggs of domestic poultry that many farmers are compelled to keep their egg-laying hens shut up in wire enclosures!
The hens seemed inspired with the very spirit of discord the moment the hour of retiring arrived.
He had fifty hens (for there was corn enough on Elm Island now), and troops of chickens.
Indeed it had been long agreed that they would keep hens as soon as the maize was ripe.
The hens had, however, a numerous foe, who were a great trouble to their young mistresses.
Do not all thehens remark the strutting of the cock?
The shadows grew from violet to blue; the small hens pecked for worms with avidity and the goats scratched with vigour in the cool.
As soon as the hens begin setting the gobblers gather in flocks and remain by themselves until joined in the early fall by the hens and their half-grown broods.
The curiosity of a deer often makes him hesitate long enough for the opportunity of a shot, but the gobbler, after the hens have left him, is no longer lured by curiosity.
As soon as the gobblers are deserted by the hens they become more wary, and the crack of a twig or the sight of a man, be he ever so far away, and they at once seek cover.
In the early spring the hens begin to work up the mountains and seek the densest jungles, and of course the gobblers follow them.
For this reason the hens are very secretive in nesting, taking as much care in hiding them away from the gobblers as from their other enemies.
Homely little dogs, an occasional lean cat, and hens and roosters scurried across the street from one low market or store to another.
Through an overhanging latticed stern, too, henscraned their necks, longing for scenes they could not reach.
But as to hens: We fence our flowers in and the hens range.
Our hens and cows and pigs are always better Than folks like us have any business with.
I hate to think of the old place when we're gone, With the brook going by below the yard, And no one here but hens blowing about.
You ought to see us Moving a flock of hens from place to place.
But the hens will be glad of our superfluity, and so will the pigs, though we have neither hens nor pigs of our own.
He had built up a hen-house with fir-poles, and made the nests for the hens to lay and hatch in, and they now had between forty and fifty chickens running about.
Little Edith had also employment now, for thehens began to lay eggs, and as soon as she heard them cackling, she ran for the eggs and brought them in; and before the month was over, Jacob had set four hens upon eggs.
There's a sample package of food sworn to make hens lay or kill 'em, for Cliff Brown here, that's gone to the bottom of the bag.
On our way home, we stopped at the shop of Mrs. Hill to add to our supply of eggs, Phillida's hens having unaccountably failed to supply their quota.
There's no good reason why Mrs. Shimerda couldn't have got hens from her neighbours last fall and had a hen-house going by now.
I could see the little chap, sitting here every evening by the windmill, nursing his pipe and listening to the silence; the wheeze of the pump, the grunting of the pigs, an occasional squawking when the hens were disturbed by a rat.
At noon that day the hens had not been heard from.
Going out through the tunnel, I gave the hens their corn, emptied the ice from their drinking-pan, and filled it with water.
Some hens and ducks had crept through the hedge and were pecking at the fallen apples.
When we flashed the lantern in their eyes, the hens set up a great cackling and flew about clumsily, scattering down-feathers.
I've come strange to a new country myself, but I never forgot hens are a good thing to have, no matter what you don't have.
If you hatch some chickens by heat, miles away from any other fowls, the hens will cackle, and the cocks will crow, all the same, although no one has taught them.
This superstition has found expression in the Scotch proverb: "Whistling maids and crowing hens are no canny about a house.
The preceding evening, three Port Egmont henswere seen; this morning another appeared.
Hogs were the only quadrupeds we saw; and cocks and hens the only tame fowls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
