barnyard fowls

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There were nine altogether in the brood—eight of them good, honest, barnyard fowls.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Hubbard, Elbert

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

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 Berenson, Bernard

That would be capitulation at once, and even we should find the whole business as stupid as shooting barnyard fowls.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by Cable, George Washington

Night is the time when they slip around and catch these barnyard fowls.

From Light On the Child's Path by Bixler, William Allen