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  • But through his rooster eyes, Alex saw a moral travesty, an insult to his roosterhood: the minister was trying to have sex with his hen.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • Why is it that every time a silly cock crows in glorification of his roosterhood The New York Review thinks that it merits a book review.

    Roosterhood Schelleng, John C. 1965

  • He had some sort of notion that if he could but bring into henhood or roosterhood a five-legged hen or a two-headed rooster his fortune would be made.

    The Triumph of the Egg 1920

  • He had some sort of notion that if he could but bring into henhood or roosterhood a five-legged hen or a two-headed rooster his fortune would be made.

    Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • That he had, indeed, never proclaimed his roosterhood by crowing was a source of some anxiety to mammy.

    Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

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