the hens
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Examples
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.
Never ask a fox to mind the hens.
They wrangle about an egg, and let the hens fly away.
It is a sorry house where the hens crow and the cock is silent.