barnyard fowls

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

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

You are also instructed to procure for Mr. Merrick's use a good Jersey cow, some pigs and a dozen or so barnyard fowls.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

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

I have seen them, by twenty or thirty, sitting on a fence in a row, like barnyard fowls, where, it is to be feared, their conversation is not of the most refined character.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

At once I was struck by the resemblance of these birds to ordinary barnyard fowls, but Master Pope explained that they were woodcock.

From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony