barnyard fowls
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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
Women plaited their hats from straw or palmetto leaf, and used feathers from barnyard fowls.
From Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
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
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
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
