hen-yard

Constitution in September 1787, stating, "Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen-yard in order."

Josh Horwitz: Thomas Jefferson and "The Blood of Tyrants" 2009

The domestic hen-yard was duly stocked with all kinds of fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, and guinea-fowls, and in the garden and on the terrace and the housetop

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Unfortunately for the picturesqueness and poetry of this historic incident, modern civilization has utilized the island as a hen-yard, and the historic cellar as a chicken-roost.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 Various

Bunny hopped along past the hen-yard fence, and into the orchard.

Bunny Rabbit's Diary Mary Frances Blaisdell

For there, walking about the netted-in hen-yard, with an air of being completely at home, were not only Henry and Henrietta Cox, but two others, closely resembling Henrietta.

Peggy in Her Blue Frock Eliza Orne White

It was never any trouble to feed and water them, or to let them out of the hen-yard for a short run.

Master Sunshine C. F. Fraser

"Mysteries, and with your late rival in the hen-yard?" cried Bruce with feigned concern.

Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge Pemberton Ginther

"Nothing much, only if that hen-yard gate should happen to be left open, and if Farmer Brown's boy should happen to forget to close that little hole that the hens go through, and if we happened to be around at just that time --"

Old Granny Fox 1919

He blustered and strutted, declaring himself Lord High Protector of the hen-yard and just about the handsomest thing in feathers -- _Bloom_!

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

When we didn't want her to set she'd set on anything from a doorknob to a rock, couldn't keep her off; but when we give in finally and got a settin 'of eggs for her, she wouldn't come nigher to 'em than the other end of the hen-yard.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907