fowl-houses

When he with Laura in his hand went into the kitchen on his way to the dog-kennel, the fowl-houses, and other his favourite haunts, all the servants there assembled in great silence with their friends, and the labouring men and their wives, and Sally

The History of Pendennis 2006

They could cut the timber in the coppice, and put up the fowl-houses for themselves.

The Silver Spoon 2004

Rosie, on the other hand, more devious and sly, had sharp salts of wickedness on her, and she led me a dance round the barns and fowl-houses which often left me parched and trembling.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

_Poultry Farmer_: A scout must have a good knowledge of incubators, brooders, sanitary fowl-houses and coops and runs; also of rearing, feeding, killing, and dressing birds for market; also he must be able to pack birds and eggs for market.

Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller

Some enthusiasts, to enlarge their holdings, went even so far as to pull down their untenanted fowl-houses.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

Five-Bob -- pleasant, hospitable Five-Bob -- as shut up, with no one but a solitary caretaker there pending the settling of the Beecham insolvency; with flowers running to seed unheeded in the wide old garden, grass yellowing on the lawns, fruit wasting in wain-loads in the great orchard, kennels, stables, fowl-houses, and cow-yards empty and deserted.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

Evidently he had been set to clean out the fowl-houses, for a wheelbarrow half full of manure stood at the door of a wire-netted shed, and in the middle of this task he had sought diversion by shooting rats from among the straw in

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

Some fowl-houses and runs were finished, and their feathered occupants arrived and took possession.

A harum-scarum schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

The corn-cribs, fowl-houses, and hot-houses or dugouts for winter use were clustered near the other cabins.

The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

"The ash-pit and the fowl-houses," replied Bill, picking up his reins.

Mount Music Martin Ross 1888