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  • Immediately they conducted Candide to a beautiful pavilion adorned with a colonade of green marble, spotted with yellow, and with an intertexture of vines, which served as a kind of cage for parrots, humming-birds, guinea-hens, and all other curious kinds of birds.

    Candide 2007

  • She is bosom friend to all the chickens, ducks, turkeys, and guinea-hens on the place.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • I do believe in accursed people: people who send snakes through gates and toss guinea-hens over a wall.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • But why else would snakes appear where there were none, or guinea-hens mysteriously turn up, destroy only her garden, and vanish again?

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • She knew that if she asked-which she would not-she would learn that no one else's property had been touched, that no one had a flock of guinea-hens, and that no one had seen or heard anything.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • There were exceptions; but the average man who went off to shoot guinea-hens or tried some vigorous game always felt much the worse for his exertions.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • That afternoon he got permission, like Fred Herrig, to go after guinea-hens, which were found wild in some numbers round about; and he sent me the only one he got as a peace offering.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • Another shell exploded right in the middle of the Cubans, killing and wounding a good many, while the remainder scattered like guinea-hens.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • The few guinea-hens thus procured were all used for the sick.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • _ -- Fillet chickens, guinea-hens, partridges, or grouse (leave pigeons or quails whole, but bone them).

    Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

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