Hen Sentence Examples

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  • A hen was singing in the back yard.

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  • She handed the hen to him and stood.

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  • He hit the floor on all fours and snapped at the hen as she rolled by.

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  • The hen is much less brightly tinted.

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  • One day the little flecked hen found some grains of wheat.

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  • M (Charter) Thurs; gr 20 Apr 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king's yeoman.

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  • The hen was very gentle, and made no objection to our investigations.

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  • Menu highlights include bison burgers, beef and lamb club sandwiches, organic pickled hen eggs and specialty cheese platters.

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  • For a moment he gazed down at her, his expression much like the trapped fox in the hen house.

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  • What they got was a mother hen.

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  • Clare Benedict, the highly articulate hen, holds the stage.

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  • They were at the bottom of the naval hierarchy and were tasked with such menial duties as cleaning the pigsties and hen coops.

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  • The menu includes an assortment of salads, burgers, corned beef sandwiches, pan-roasted game hen and seafood.

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  • The menu includes prime grade steaks, as well as the not-so-common menu offerings of rattlesnake and alligator tail for appetizers and buffalo, elk and game hen for main courses.

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  • To judge their size they are standing next to a modern game bantam hen. in the following picture.

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  • I met the old buzzard running around like a demented hen round Union Station in Toronto.

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  • Eventually she discovers that real Easter eggs come from broody hen, Mavis, rather than the local confectioner.

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  • I often hear this call in the spring, when two or more drakes are pursuing a hen Mallard in flight.

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  • An effective way to do this is to put empty eggshells (from hen eggs used to make omelets) in the cage.

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  • Compounds that produce more than 70% inhibition of neuropathy target esterase give positive results in the hen test.

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  • Later there was a ringtail Hen Harrier at Rye Harbor Farm and a drake goldeneye still on Long Pit.

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  • If they are up use a fine wire hook B100 and try putting in a small hen hackle, keeping the dressing very slim.

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  • The best way to see a hen harrier is to scan the horizon with a pair of binoculars.

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  • In England, breeding hen harriers are restricted to upland heather moorlands.

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  • Could the hen harrier decline on Orkney be due to a shortage of food?

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  • If you are looking for a wedding limousine or a limo for your hen party.

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  • Mrs R ran a livery stable and knew her horses but not a young hen!

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  • This definition yielded a conservative assignment as several protein with distinct lobes (e.g. hen lysozyme and subtilisin) were classed as single-domain proteins.

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  • Along the stream we caught a glimpse of a couple of hen mallards, shepherding a brood of ducklings between them.

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  • The only other scarce migrant seen was a Hen Harrier that flew north over Weston in the afternoon.

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  • You only have your hen night once, why risk it, put in the hands of the Hen night specialists, the Dreamboys.

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  • Charities - The Hospital was built by the parishioners, and endowed in 1632, by Mr. Hen.

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  • He was a gentle man, but I seem to remember that he was hen pecked by his wife.

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  • A hen pheasant flew off some ten feet in front of me.

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  • Book a cheeky butler with your Pamper Party and receive a free treatment polecats lessons for your hen party at home.

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  • A ringtail Hen Harrier was also seen quartering at the bridge on the road between Guerriero and Alcarias.

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  • Looking for Hen Night ideas to give her a great send-off?

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  • Other raptor sightings included two merlins and a hen harrier.

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  • Every hen night these days seems to have a hen night stripper.

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  • The dog can stretch his legs and the hen can lay her eggs In my little wooden toolshed in the garden.

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  • A great hen night option with your hen night veil, they'll see you coming in this one.

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  • Great ideas can be found for days out, adventure holidays, stag and hen weekends and corporate events.

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  • A perfect place to visit with your fellow hen weekenders.

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  • The strip of pubs are ready-made for hen weekenders who want to do the town properly.. .

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  • Katie the hen was taught to play the xylophone by hitting the notes with her beak.

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  • M (Charter) Wed; gr 28 Jun 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king's yeoman.

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  • Its ready adaptation to confine ment has made it a popular cage-bird on both sides of the Atlantic. The hen is not so good a songster as the cock bird.

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  • The cock bird, when, to use the fenman's expression, he has not "his show on," and the hen at all seasons, offer no very remarkable deviation from ordinary sandpipers; outwardly there is nothing, except the unequal size of the two sexes, to rouse suspicion of any abnormal peculiarity.

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  • Its most characteristic animals and birds are the white-tailed jack-rabbit, pallid vole, sage hen, sharp-tailed grouse and greentailed towhee; the large Columbia ground-squirrel (Spermophflus columbianus) is common in that part of the zone which re west of the Rocky Mountains, but east of the Rockies it is replaced by another species (Cynomys) which closely resembles a small prairie dog.

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  • In this case also both sexes of the cuckoo mimic the drongo, whereas according to the theory it would be necessary for the hen bird alone to do so.

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  • You may see from a boat, in calm weather, near the sandy eastern shore, where the water is eight or ten feet deep, and also in some other parts of the pond, some circular heaps half a dozen feet in diameter by a foot in height, consisting of small stones less than a hen's egg in size, where all around is bare sand.

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  • There are also pictures and farm sounds to download, such as a squealing pig and a hen laying an egg.

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  • The strip of pubs are ready-made for hen weekenders who want to do the town properly...

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  • M (Charter) Thurs; gr 20 Apr 1251, by K Hen III to Edmund de Lacy, king 's yeoman.

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  • Often young birds acquire the infections from the hen or through navel or yolk sac infections.

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  • If it is, consider how many chickens you would like to have - the average hen will lay an egg approximately every 25 hours, except for the shortest days of the year.

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  • Small tea chests or other boxes can make a suitable place for a hen to lay her eggs.

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  • The cookbook provides cooks with grilling techniques and equipment needed to produce delicacies like Guinea hen breasts with rosemary and pesto and Italian-style ribs.

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  • The hen houses have natural sunlight to help make sure that the birds are healthy.

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  • Since the vaccines are prepared using hen eggs, people who have severe allergies to eggs or other vaccine components should not receive the influenza vaccine.

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  • Cat origami for kids is a great project to start with; continue with beginners' projects like origami swans and the traditional hen.

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  • Mother Hen's Quilt Embroideries has many quilt patterns.

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  • Le chat (cat), le cochon (pig), even la poule (hen) may all be part of flirting.

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  • Miss Clara chuckled like a mother hen.

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  • She helped Betsy in the kitchen and hovered around Bumpus like a hen with chicks.

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  • Now some really big names tell me to back off but it's my hen house where all you fox are playing.

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  • At the hen house she grabbed the basket and reached into the first nest.

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  • Reaching her hand into the next nest box, a hen pecked it hard.

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  • I can't tell you how many times I've had a hen set until the last few days and then leave the nest, spoiling the eggs.

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  • I left because he's a smothering mother hen.

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  • He cowered in the corner, clutching a white hen in his mouth.

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  • Carmen pulled the coop door shut and the fox snarled around the hen, backing deeper into the corner.

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  • He grabbed the hen by the wing and headed for a sliver of light shining through the coop door.

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  • The hen scrambled, dragging a broken wing and squawking her anguish.

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  • Waving his hands, he yelled and the fox darted out the coop door - without the hen.

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  • She stooped to gather the wounded hen.

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  • Katie gulped her coffee and followed him out the door, pausing to mouth "mother hen" to Carmen.

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  • He caught her in the dairy one day and gently informed her that the hen had passed away.

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  • Obviously he felt his efforts to save the hen were not appreciated.

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  • I threw the hen into the woods, so the fox will probably get it anyway.

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  • Now he'll get a taste for chickens and start raiding my hen house every night.

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  • I poured cement in the hole he dug under the hen house.

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  • Somewhere in the distance a meadowlark began its melodic whistle, and a hen sang industriously up by the house.

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  • She didn't intend to say anything to anyone, but Katie was on her like a hen on a June bug the minute she came through the door.

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  • Once home she washed the roasting hen and put it in a pan.

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  • I fell head over heals with the little goat lady who had the courage to get right up into my face and give me what-for about a hen I threw to the fox.

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  • Anyway, since when did you get to be such a mother hen?

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  • He was furnished with a yacht, the " Heemskirk," and a fly-boat, the " Zeehaen " (or " Sea Hen "), under the command of Captain Jerrit Jansen.

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  • Bonnet affirms that, before fecundation, the hen's egg contains an excessively minute but complete chick; and that fecundation and incubation simply cause this germ to absorb nutritious matters, which are deposited in the interstices of the elementary structures of which the miniature chick, or germ, is made up.

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  • This statute was partly renewed by 22 Hen.

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  • The same point has been taken by large bodies of clergy and laity in regard to the court of final appeal created by 25 Hen.

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  • Among European forms, some tadpoles of Pelobates attain a length of seven inches, the body being of the size of a hen's egg.

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  • The hen is still more soberly attired; but it is perhaps the siskin's disposition to familiarity that makes it so favourite a captive, and, 'though as a cage-bird it is not ordinarily long-lived, it readily adapts itself to the loss of liberty.

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  • In the hen the bill is black, the crest more round and not filamentous, the uropygials scarcely elongated, and the vent only scarlet.

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  • Rhydderch Hen appears to have secured the supremacy amongst these Welsh princes after the great battle of Ardderyd fought about the year 573, to which frequent reference is made in early Welsh poetry.

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  • By the law of England pardon is the sole prerogative of the king, and it is declared by 27 Hen.

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  • Like many other singing birds it is, in the wild state, a mocking-bird, having been heard to imitate the song of the nightingale, the crowing of a cock, and even the cackling of a hen.

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  • This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Heb to Hen.

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  • Old Oswestry, also called Old Fort (Welsh Hen Dinas), is a British earthwork about a mile from the modern town.

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  • He exercised the jurisdiction of legatus natus of the pope throughout all England before the Reformation, and since that event he has been empowered, by 25 Hen.

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  • The master of the faculties regulates the appointment of notaries public, and all dispensations which fall under 25 Hen.

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  • One of its companies carried a number of gamecocks said to have been the brood of a blue hen; hence the soldiers, and later the people of the state, have been popularly known as the " Blue Hen's Chickens."

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  • Very interesting to ornithologists are the few heath hens, the eastern representative of the prairie hen (pinnated grouse), which are found on the island of Martha's Vineyard, and are the sole survivors in the eastern states of one of the finest of American game birds, now practically exterminated even on the western plains.

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  • The earliest regency in England resting upon an express statute was that created by 28 Hen.

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  • The characteristic Chinese mode of dividing the "yellow road " of the sun was, however, by the twelve "cyclical animals " - Rat, Ox, Tiger, Hare, Dragon or Crocodile, Serpent, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Hen, Dog, Pig.

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  • The Hare (or Rabbit), Monkey, Dog and Serpent reappeared without change; for the Tiger, Crocodile and Hen, unknown in America, the Ocelot, Lizard and Eagle were substituted as analogous.6 The Aztec calendar dated from the 7th century; but the zodiacal tradition embodied by it was doubtless much more ancient.

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  • Perrot or Pierrot, the diminutive of the proper name Pierre), the name given 1 "Parakeet" (in Shakespeare, i Hen.

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  • A considerable deficit, of about £16,000,000, was in prospect, and the chancellor of the exchequer aroused misgivings by alluding in a speech to the difficulty he had in deciding what "hen roost" to "rob."

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  • The fruit is about the size of a small hen's egg, and within its fibrous rind is the seed or so-called nut, the albumen of which is very hard and has a prettily mottled grey and brown appearance.

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  • At the south-east corner we find the hen and duck house, and poultry-yard (m), and the dwelling of the keeper (n).

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  • While the pennated grouse (called the prairie chicken in Canada) has always been plentiful, the prairie hen (or chicken) proper is a more recent arrival from Minnesota and Dakota, to which states it had come from Illinois and the south as settlement and accompanying wheatfields extended north.

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  • On Charles's death in 1788 Henry issued a manifesto asserting his hereditary right to the British crown, and likewise struck a medal, commemorative of the event, with the legend "Hen.

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  • In Java the new-born babe is placed in a hen-coop, and the mother makes a clucking noise, as if she were a hen, to attract the child's soul.

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  • Some cuckoos are singular for their habit of using the nests of smaller birds to lay their eggs in, so that the young may be reared by foster-parents; and it has been suggested that the object of the likeness exhibited to the hawk is to enable the cock cuckoo either to frighten the small birds away from their nests or to lure them in pursuit of him, while the hen bird quietly and without molestation disposes of her egg.

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  • The drongo is a fierce and powerful bird which will not tolerate a strange bird of the size of a cuckoo near its nest, yet on account of its resemblance to the drongo, the hen cuckoo is enabled, it has been claimed, to lay her egg in the nest of the drongo, which mistakes the cuckoo for one of its own kind.

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  • The colour of the fruit varies from green to deep purple, the size from that of a small cherry to that of a hen's egg; the form is oblong acute or obtuse at both ends, or globular; the stones or kernels vary in like manner; and the flavour, season of ripening and duration are all subject to variation.

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  • The fruit-body before it ruptures may reach the size of a hen's egg and is white in colour; from this there grows out a hollow cylindrical structure which can be distinguished at the distance of several yards by its disgusting odour.

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  • The Tithe Acts do not apply to the city of London, which has always had its own peculiar customary payment regulated by episcopal constitutions of 13 Hen.

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  • Kircher's experimentum mirabile with the fowl and the chalk line succeeds best with the decerebrate hen.

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  • Within the church are the iron crown of Lombardy, supposed to have been beaten out of one of the nails used at the Crucifixion, and the treasury containing the relics of Theodelinda, comprising her crown, fan and comb of gold, and the golden hen and seven chickens, representing Lombardy and her seven provinces, and crosses, reliquaries, &c., of the Lombard and Gothic periods.

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  • Designed G.W.Ritchey Air tight Building Sheet hen sun Building Scale of Feet FIG.

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  • Two miles up the river is the Hen Island dam, which, with the Mishawaka hydraulic dam nearer the city, is the source of much of the power used by the city's manufactories.

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  • The fruits do not usually exceed in size the dimensions of a hen's or of a swan's egg, but that of P. macrocarpa is a gourd-like oblong fruit attaining a weight of 7 to 8 lb.

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  • To this doctrine express statutory authority (as the events have happened) has been given by 25 Hen.

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  • Canons passed since 2s Hen.

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  • The distinction between pre-Henrician and post-Henrician procedure lies in the requirement, since 25 Hen.

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  • The song-birds are well represented in the hermit thrush, wood thrush, Wilson's thrush (or veery), brown thrasher, robin, blue bird, bobolink, meadow lark, gold finch, &c. Among the game birds are the ruffed grouse (partridge), quail, prairie hen and wild turkey.

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  • It would also seem that during the breeding-season many of them are wholly nocturnal in their habits, passing the day in holes of the ground, or in clefts of the rocks, in which they generally nestle, the hen of each pair laying a single white egg, sparsely speckled in a few species with fine reddish dots.

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  • That there was substantial identity in the character of original and copy may be inferred from the fact that the well-known tract called Modus tenendi parliamentum was exemplified under the Great Seal of Ireland in 6 Hen.

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  • In the later story, Erichthonius (son of Hephaestus and Atthis or Athena herself) was handed over by Athena to the three daughters of Cecrops - Aglauros (or Agraulos), Hen and.

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  • Actually, she hadn't given much thought to his motive for working on the hen, assuming it was merely something to pass the time.

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  • Things have really moved on from the traditional chicken ark, coop and hen house.

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  • The many other species of bird include chough, corncrake, golden eagle, merlin, buzzard and hen harrier.

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  • The Hen Wyfe wul no thenk me gin Ah bring hir hame a deid hen.

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  • This estate is the only grouse moor to have breeding hen harriers recorded by the project every year.

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  • The bride to be will be amazed to receive one of our gift packs on her hen nite.

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  • The fair will have a vast array of different trades including bridalwear, menswear through to photographers, florists and even hen party planning!

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  • No; she's a yellow hen, and a great friend of mine.

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  • Just then a loud cackling was heard outside; and, when a servant threw open the door with a low bow, a yellow hen strutted in.

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  • Then Dorothy wound up Tik-tok and he danced a jig to amuse the company, after which the Yellow Hen related some of her adventures with the Nome King in the Land of Ev.

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  • It is said that when hatched by a hen they will directly disperse on some alarm, and so are lost, for they never hear the mother's call which gathers them again.

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  • The cook began running hither and thither in the passage like a frightened hen, just as Alpatych entered.

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  • If it quacks really loudly it is a hen.

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  • Ended up with 15 raptor species, all except Hen Harrier !

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  • Here is the liver of a hen, with yellow yolks of eggs being formed at the bottom of the window.

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  • A good source for shopping and a lot of information is Hen Spa.

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  • I bet that fox thought this old hen was more than he bargained for.

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  • Other changes were introduced by 23 Hen.

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  • Herons, the brown pelican, bittern, and mud hen frequent the marshes.

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  • Of course the hen sits with her legs doubled up under her, as does any other long-legged bird.

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