barnyard fowls

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Andersson and a companion, while traversing a sterile plain, caught sight of a male and female ostrich, with a brood of young ones about the size of barnyard fowls.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

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 Noyes, George Rapall

Perhaps no part of agriculture is more profitable to the wise farmer than his barnyard fowls, and in Washington this is exceptionally true.

From A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Howell, Ithamar

Their calls are few in number and have little of that conversational quality which we note in those of our ordinary barnyard fowls.

From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate

Then the old women of the village bring barnyard fowls to the master as presents, and these are left in the house which the horse has only recently vacated.

From Threads of Grey and Gold by Reed, Myrtle