hen,

So the sheep and the duckling, the duck and the hen,

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various

"Cluck! cluck!" it said; what it thought, when saying it, I do not know; but the peasant thought, as he saw the hen,

Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918

But it's women this and women that, and woman's like a hen,

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times Alice Duer Miller 1908

The cat ’s singin’ gay thrums to the sleepin’ hen,

Willie Winkie 1895

"What I object to most in young birds," said another elderly hen,

Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889

If a cloud looks as if it had been picked by a hen,

Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk William Wells Newell 1873

He assumed successively the shapes of a rabbit, a hen,

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

Terry heigho, &c. Next come in was a neighbour's hen,

Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

All the others followed her example, after their respective ways -- the curé giving a sort of cluck like a hen,

Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850