Fowl Like

Jimmy considered the conical, fowl-like profile with a queer kind of interest; he was leaning out of his bunk with the calculating, uncertain expression of a man who reflects how best to lay hold of some strange creature that looks as though it could sting or bite. ❋ Unknown (1897)

I say ostrich because the creature, though it ran on two legs, appeared to help its progress by working a pair of short wings; it was a man, however, only his coat, ripped up the back and flapping in two halves above his shoulders, gave him that weird and fowl-like appearance. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

English, but they evidently regarded the fowl-like creature as a learned person who would give me a dressing down in my own language. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

Bench, the old woman with her fowl-like cry and limbs in the air, and the row over the misty river, swam flashing before my eyes, and I cried out to the two girls, who were drinking out of one glass with the sailor ❋ George Meredith (1868)

... a medium-sized, fowl-like game bird best known for its courtship displays and thunderous takeoffs ❋ Grouse (2002)

Instead of laying in the fowl-house in an ordinary Christian fowl-like way, they go miles away, and of course the carpet snakes and iguanas, and kookaburras, {*} get most of the eggs and chicks -- except those which Jim and Mary find. " ❋ Louis Becke (1884)