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Fortunately, doctors were almost as scarce as hen's teeth.

Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War J.R. McNeill 2010

Fortunately, doctors were almost as scarce as hen's teeth.

Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War J.R. McNeill 2010

And a hen's beak, equally though differently keen, impacts on Possum's nose, which is as sensitive as it is keen.

CHAPTER XLII 2010

The highlights of my meal were a hen's egg cooked at 62 degrees Celsius, with thin slices of sautéed wild mushrooms served atop small chunks of wind-dried beef.

Back to the Basics Bruce Palling 2011

As you can imagine, this story is as rare as hen's teeth but I'll never forget the words of the following woman who wrote to me at my blog, The Virginity Project.

Kate Monro: The so-called 'perfect virginity loss experience' Kate Monro 2011

A world in which people knew the difference between baking soda and baking powder, in which the humble hen's egg had not yet been vilified, and finally in which the whole vocabulary of industrialized cooking (Toaster Ready, Heat 'n Serve, Microwavable) did not exist.

M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992) 2010

Or explaining the precise map co-ordinates of where you found your hen's eggs.

Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed 2011

About the size of a small hen's egg, it lay, cupped in his muddy hand, its wet black down so thin the scrawny pink body showed through.

BLACKBIRD marci stillerman 2011

These big turtles can walk away with two big men on their backs and lay eggs as big as a hen's egg, with a soft shell.

From Talpa to Puerto Vallarta in the 1800s 2009

Lange likens the experience to pulling hen's teeth.

Lange, Barrymore like mother and daughter after 'Gardens' 2009