1 The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
2 As she bandaged it for him, he explained awkwardly that when attempting to get into a hen coop at Fayetteville, he had been discovered.
3 Scarlett did not ask whose hen coop but patted Pork's shoulder gently, tears in her eyes.
4 Pork would have taken shame to himself had he spent her money when there were unguarded hen coops along the road and smokehouses handy.
5 As he fussed over her, clucking like a hen, she gave herself up to the luxury of being taken care of.
6 And poor Honey was always a man-crazy fool with no more sense than a guinea hen.
7 The circle of mourners kept its place all evening, and Dave Dyer did the "stunt" of the Norwegian and the hen.
8 Under the glass cover of the dressing-table was a menu with the most enchanting dishes: breast of guinea hen De Vitresse, pommes de terre a la Russe, meringue Chantilly, gateaux Bruxelles.
9 He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.
10 A hen strayed in; a file of cows passed the door; then a sheep dog; then the cowman, Bond, who stopped.
11 She took her chair and looked through the smoke at a crude glass painting of a cow in a stable; also at a cock and a hen.
12 Only one hen pecked at her hand with a fierce little jab, so Connie was frightened.
13 For in a moment a tiny sharp head was poking through the gold-brown feathers of the hen, and eyeing the Cosmos.
14 The old hen pecked at him, but not so savagely.
15 Without knowing, he came quickly towards her and crouched beside her again, taking the chick from her hands, because she was afraid of the hen, and putting it back in the coop.