barnyard fowls
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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
There are barnyard fowls in plenty, bobbing their preoccupied heads as they search among the cobbles.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
Marching from the clubhouse were ten pretty girls, “shooing” in front of them ten varieties of barnyard fowls!
From The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail by Crane, Laura Dent
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
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
