barnyard fowls

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Many of the workers took to their heels; others, in affright, scuttled aimlessly hither and thither, like barnyard fowls in a panic.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

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.

Not far from the nest the parent birds scratch about in the leaves like diminutive barnyard fowls, for the grubs and insects hiding under them.

From Bird Neighbors by Blanchan, Neltje

Now and then, in open spaces in the path, I came upon shallow circular depressions where the bird had been dusting, an operation in which I had often seen our barnyard fowls complacently engaged.

From A Rambler's lease by Torrey, Bradford

They are never molested; indeed, like the pariah dogs of the Orient, they have the right of way; and they are evidently conscious of the fact, for they are tamer than barnyard fowls.

From In the Footprints of the Padres by Stoddard, Charles Warren