Mr. Morris's grand group number in "The Hard Nut" is framed within Adrianne Lobel's inky darkness, outlined by sharp, white, pin-stripe edges and backed by a speckled expanse that suggests both the chill of a nighttime snowfall and the decorative pattern of guinea-hen feathers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Ere I would say, I would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Lewis had some fowls, and among them was a particularly pestiferous guinea-hen that used to get up at three in the morning and go around making the kind of a noise that a guinea-hen must like and is willing to get up early to hear. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Later in the day Clemens gave orders to Lewis to “kill and eat that guinea-hen,” which Lewis did. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was a clear, bright night; locating the guinea-hen, he slipped up stealthily with a stout stick. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If they had any beans they would send me over a cupful, or I would suddenly receive a present of doughnuts from some ex-roundup cook who had succeeded in obtaining a little flour and sugar, and if a man shot a guinea-hen it was all I could do to make him keep half of it for himself. ❋ Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (1992)
Madame Maigret had made a guinea-hen pie, and the superintendent had brought out of his cellar one of the last bottles of an old Châteauneuf du Pape he had once bought a case of, marked down, when he was on Rue Drouot. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1971)
"Oh, there's a whacker!" cried East; "we haven't been within a hundred yards of his barn; we haven't been up here above ten minutes, and we've seen nothing but a tough old guinea-hen, who ran like a greyhound." ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
"Indeed, that's all true, Holmes, upon my honour," added Tom; "we weren't after his fowls; guinea-hen ran out of the hedge under our feet, and we've seen nothing else." ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
Arthur jumped at this, offering to pay anything, and the farmer immediately valued the guinea-hen at half a sovereign. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
At any rate, just under East's nose popped out the old guinea-hen, scuttling along and shrieking, "Come back, come back," at the top of her voice. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
The cook, Mary, is small, Irish, gray, with the temper of a pepper-pod and the voice of a guinea-hen suffering from bronchitis, but she can cook like an angel. ❋ John Williams Streeter (N/A)
The cook cackles, like the guinea-hen that she is, but the dishes are none the worse for the commendation. ❋ John Williams Streeter (N/A)
"Miss Crosspatch," the guinea-hen with the ugly voice. ❋ Robert Gordon Anderson (N/A)
They do not have harsh voices like the guinea-hen or the old black crows which steal the corn from the field when Mr. Scarecrow gets tired and goes to sleep. ❋ Robert Gordon Anderson (N/A)
Deer domesticated here since long before the introduction of the turkey or the guinea-hen bear themselves with as quiet ease and freedom from fear as though they were the lords of the manor and held the black-letter title-deeds for the delicious stretch of sward over which they troop. ❋ Various (N/A)
Chickens had roasted on it, when there were chickens at the Lesters 'to roost, and it was speckled like a guinea-hen. ❋ Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- (1934)
I've eaten maple mousse and guinea-hen at the Saunders ', and I've eaten liver-and-bacon and rice pudding here, and I like this best. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
