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  • But let us now come to the use of the Flesh of these Fowls, which is either eaten roasted, boiled, fricasseed, baked, or broiled either slit or whole.

    The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm Richard Bradley 1710

  • Rum, Tongues, Hams, Beef, Geese, Turkes and Fowls both drest and raw, with many luxuries of the table as sweetmeats, pickles & . . .

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • There is a rich tradition of stories starring political ­animals Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees," Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls," Walter R. Brooks's "Freddy the Pig", so why is it so irksome when Mr. Lender does it?

    Coastal Disturbances Alexandra Mullen 2011

  • “Some shoot forth horns,” one biologist wrote in 1699, “others acquire a forked Tail; some assume Bills, like Fowls, others are covered with Hair, or become all over rough; and others again are covered with Scales and resemble Serpents.”

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • “Some shoot forth horns,” one biologist wrote in 1699, “others acquire a forked Tail; some assume Bills, like Fowls, others are covered with Hair, or become all over rough; and others again are covered with Scales and resemble Serpents.”

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • “Some shoot forth horns,” one biologist wrote in 1699, “others acquire a forked Tail; some assume Bills, like Fowls, others are covered with Hair, or become all over rough; and others again are covered with Scales and resemble Serpents.”

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Parliament of the Fowls and came in to them; whereupon they all rose to him and saluted him and kissed his hands.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Fowls and sought for Janshah, that he might send him with them to his native land, but found him not and knew that he had entered the forbidden room.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Parliament of the Fowls, when I will make accord between thee and her and send thee back to thy native land, and the maiden with thee.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Fowls, geese, and turkeys, flutter vigorously among their very hoofs; and buyers, sellers, and spectators, clustering everywhere, block up the road as we come shouting down upon them.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

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