barnyard fowls
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Others—probably those which, as Major Pitcher informed me, had spent the winter there—were as tame as barnyard fowls.
From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various
Night is the time when they slip around and catch these barnyard fowls.
From Light On the Child's Path by William Allen Bixler
Zosia was standing bareheaded in her morning gown, holding a sieve aloft in her hands; the barnyard fowls were running to her feet.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
Even Orpheus in his hands becomes a farmer's lad fiddling to the barnyard fowls.
From The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition by Bernard Berenson
But Israel Drake was a bandit, just as his neighbors were farmers—just as a hawk is a hawk while its neighbors are barnyard fowls.
From Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day by Benjamin A. Heydrick
