"Hen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all spekled over. mother says she is afrade i have got chicken pocks. i gess i have been in the hen koop ...
— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute
... un homme venir a vous. C'est le chef. Il vous demandera si vous voulez vous engager dans la societe. Si vous acceptez, le terme d'engagement est de sept ans et vous gagnerez une plaquette par jour.'[269] Among the Walloons the neophyte takes with him a black hen, which the Devil buys, and then ratifies the contract, 'le pacte est fait pour ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... some new form of hostility attacking him treacherously from the rear. They sagged, but did not break from their fastenings, and his behaviour, as he lay thus entangled, would have contrasted unfavourably in dignity with the actions of a panic-stricken hen in a hammock. ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... Take a hen &c. and trust a naule, or a fine sharpe pointed knife through the middle of the head thereof, the edge toward the bill, so as it may seeme impossible for her to escape death. Then vse words or incantations, and pulling out the knife, lay otes before her and she wil eate and liue, being nothing ...
— The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine • Samuel Rid
... Sunday cap, and received his stories about Italy with "Oh! ah! indeed!" in a very unkind manner. And when breakfast was over, and she had done washing her age chins, she fluttered up to Clive with such an agitation of plumage, redness of craw, and anger of manner, as a maternal hen shows if she has reason to think you menace her chickens. She fluttered up to Clive, I say, and cried out, "Not in this house, Clive,—not in this house, I beg ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
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