guinea-hens

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