Brood Hen

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(Then again apart to his unseen associate behind the screen) Mysie, kill the brood-hen without thinking twice on it; let them care that come ahint. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is at once your great virtue and defect that you find everything that everybody does quite right and reasonable -- you, the wife eternally in love with her husband; eternally watching over your children like a brood-hen. ❋ Karin Micha��lis (1911)

Elizabeth was not precisely in a mood for cool judgment; she stood like an offended brood-hen, with ruffled feathers, waiting to fly at the first likely offender. ❋ Unknown (1856)

Mysie, kill the brood-hen without thinking twice on it; let them care that come ahint. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Now you know very exactly what the Inquiries are-and this wise nation is gaping to see the chick which their old brood-hen the ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

Now Grannonia kept a brood-hen, that was sitting upon a nest of eggs, in which she placed all her hope, expecting to have a fine brood of chickens, and to make a good profit of them. ❋ Giambattista Basile (1603)

“But the brood-hen,” remonstrated Mysie — “ou, she’s sitting some gate aneath the dais in the hall, and I am feared to gae in in the dark for the dogle; and if I didna see the bogle, I could as ill see the hen, for it’s pit-mirk, and there’s no another light in the house, save that very blessed lamp whilk the Master has in his ain hand. ❋ Unknown (2008)

How they laughed together when Melanie came to announce that she had forgotten to put yeast in the cake, both her hands covered with sticky leaven, for all the world as if she were wearing winter gloves; or when, at Cizpra's command, she tried to take a little yellow downy chicken from the cold courtyard to a warm room, keeping up the while a lively duel with the jealous brood-hen, till finally Melanie was obliged to run. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)

"But the brood-hen," remonstrated Mysie -- "ou, she's sitting some gate aneath the dais in the hall, and I am feared to gae in in the dark for the dogle; and if I didna see the bogle, I could as ill see the hen, for it's pit-mirk, and there's no another light in the house, save that very blessed lamp whilk the Master has in his ain hand. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

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