barnyard fowls

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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

A home-made straw hat ornamented with feathers of barnyard fowls and domestic birds was often as jaunty and as pretty as any Parisian bonnet.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

The flock, that heretofore like a group of barnyard fowls in the dust and the sun had remained indolently resting and preening their plumage, grew alert.

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will

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

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