sitting hen

For various reasons, we expected little of the sitting hen.

In the cool after the rain, Arkady felt the heat of the sitting hens.

Who stole the widow's one sitting hen o' Sunday, when she was at mass?

The housewife shakes her head; eggs are so useful that she does not want sitting hens for a week or two yet.

Nesting Patterns and Sitting Hens are recent egg works.

I caught the big thief in the very act of devouring the eggs from under your sitting hen, and I shot him dead without another thought.

He's mooning about over his books like a sitting hen about half the time, when he ought to be mending harness.

I was more concerned with sitting hens than with sonnets and I'm bound to say I never took these threats very seriously.

Brought up in the strictest puritanical principles, a steady sitting hen, who maintains that unfaithful wives should be publicly burnt. '

This broody ark gives a sitting hen a secure haven during incubation and a safe run area during the first few weeks of life for the chicks.

When the specimen of Segisaurus was discovered, Camp likened its posture to that of a "sitting hen", due to the position the dinosaur's remains were in.

The sitting hen will leave the nest once a day from 20 minutes to one and a half hours, and will then defecate, drink water, eat and sometimes bathe.