chicken-yard

Sauntering around the corner of the house in the early morning, he came upon a chicken that had escaped from the chicken-yard.

The God's Domain 2010

At which conceit he fell a-laughing, and remarked he had never had the happiness yet to see the chicken-yard at Castle

Castle Rackrent 2006

‘How is it,’ says I, being a little merry at the time — ‘how is it but just as you see the ducks in the chicken-yard, just after their heads are cut off by the cook, running round and round faster than when alive?’

Castle Rackrent 2006

There are in every large chicken-yard a number of old and indignant hens who resemble Mrs. Bogart, and when they are served at Sunday noon dinner, as fricasseed chicken with thick dumplings, they keep up the resemblance.

Main Street 2004

It was dawn, heralded by the crowing of the cook's roosters out in the chicken-yard.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

A Night at the Manor House Trixie scattered a handful of grain around the chicken-yard and was relieved to notice that the water can did not need refilling.

The Secret of the Mansion Campbell, Julie, 1908- 1984

A Night at the Manor House Trixie scattered a handful of grain around the chicken-yard and was relieved to notice that the water can did not need refilling.

The Secret Of The Mansion Campbell, Julie, 1908- 1984

The hen that taught me the lesson must be both ambitious and athletic, for time after time have I found her outside the chicken-yard.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

I have a high wire fence enclosing the chicken-yard, and in order to make steady the posts to which the gate is attached, I joined them at the top by nailing a board across.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

What with all the women scheming to catch him, he's got about as much chance as a potato-bug turned loose in a chicken-yard.

Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith