legions

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Others, George Lowry's ten white leghorns who last year laid 3,014 eggs, came from West Willington, Conn. There were many peculiar and eccentric birds upon display.

From Time Magazine Archive

With these fowls he contrasted his own prize-winning white leghorns, with their well-built and ventilated pen, with its two large windows to the south.

From Hidden Treasure by Simpson, John Thomas

Remember the time we run in that joke on Daddy Price, by dipping his prize white leghorns in crimson dye, just before the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show?

From Further Adventures of Lad by Terhune, Albert Payson

Broadcloths, silks, leghorns, crapes, and all the refinements, luxuries, elegancies, frivolities and fashions, are in vogue.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

There were a lot of chickens, white leghorns, I think the woman called them, and they looked friendly and home-like wandering around the place talking and singing to themselves like a bunch of happy women.

From Living Up to Billy by Cooper, Elizabeth