The floor was dry and covered with leaves, some pieces of wood lay in a corner, on a natural shelf was the dressed body of a wild turkey, and near the entrance was a heap of ashes and dead coals showing where a fire had been.
Sol had shot a wild turkey, and here he had cooked it and eaten of it.
My young readers will no doubt be surprised to hear that a wild turkey, with wings over five feet in spread, can be captured by dogs.
The tuft, resembling horse hair, which grows out from the junction of the neck and breast, in a wild turkey-cock of full size, is often nearly a foot in length!
The fact is he does not seem to have learned anything during his 350 years in the barn-yard, nor does he seem to have forgotten anything that he knew as a wild turkey in the woods, except his fear of man.
For that reason I want you to watch this tame turkey, because he is almost as wild as a wild turkeyin everything except his fear of you.
The next day a colored boy brought aboard the boat a wild turkey which he had shot in the swamp; but I am still waiting to see and hear the great bronze bird alive in its native haunts.
For unless you are a boy, and are living in the wild portions of Georgia and the southeastern states, you may never see a wild turkey.
Toward night he went out and was fortunate enough to find a wild turkey, which, overcoming his reluctance, he shot.
Meanwhile they took their ease, and ate breakfast of wild turkey, buffalo steak and a little corn bread that they hoarded jealously.
Nest of a wild turkey in situ 102 Note the full chest of the gobbler on the left.
Views of the skull of wild turkeys, and skeleton of the left foot of a wild turkey 80 Plate VI.
Linna, teach Ben how to get a wild turkey; we want one for supper, for if we don't have it, we shall all have to go without food.
There was more discussion concerning "roosting" versus "yelping" with dire designs upon the huge wild turkey-cock whose tracks Gray had discovered in the mud along the branch where their camp was to be pitched.
To drive a nail is a common feat, not more thought of by the Kentuckians than to cut off a Wild Turkey's head, at a distance of a hundred yards.
Mr. Tucker said that Colonel Keogh had told him that some of the officers' families who had just come from the East to Fort Harker were very desirous for wild turkey, which they had not yet tasted.
It was a wild turkey, Bonny knew, for Uncle Allen had told him just what they looked like, though he had never seen one.
Bonny knew it was a wild turkeythat he had seen, and he was very unhappy because his story was only half believed.
But here a sad disappointment awaited him, for Uncle Allen—Bonny had no father or mother, and lived with his uncle—would not believe that he had seen a wild turkey at all.
A quantity of bones, probably those of a halib or gibnut, and of a wild turkey.
Wild turkey gobblers to me, who had hunted them enough to learn how sagacious and cunning and difficult to stalk they were, always seemed as provocative of excitement as larger game.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wild turkey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
