The sparrow-hawk, the malicious hen-hawk, and cruel pigeon-hawk, are very common throughout the United States and Europe. ❋ Various (N/A)
I knew that old hen-hawk meant trouble for me -- and the trouble came, all right. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
I spent an hour to-day trying to shoot a hen-hawk that's been hovering about the shack all afternoon. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
I have shot a partridge and a hen-hawk and caught eighteen large trout [probably Sebago salmon]. ❋ Stearns, Frank P (1906)
"It's a gum-game," protested Reeves, agitatedly, "and I ain't goin 'to fight no ostrich nor hen-hawk." ❋ Holman Day (1900)
Do not swoop down upon the health germs like a hungry hen-hawk on a green gosling, but incline your head gently until your carefully deodorized breath is upon her lips -- there pause, for the essence of enjoyment is in anticipation. ❋ Unknown (1898)
As for the farmers, they are so busy raising hogs and prices that their best friends, the birds, get scant attention from them, -- until a hen-hawk takes a chicken! ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)
Of the hen-hawk, he has observed that both male and female take part in incubation. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
In his "Indian-Summer Reverie" we catch a glimpse of the hen-hawk, silently sailing overhead ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The hen-hawk swoops down upon the meadow-mouse from his position high in air, or from the top of a dead tree; but the marsh hawk stalks him and comes suddenly upon him from over the fence, or from behind a low bush or tuft of grass. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
He is nearly as large as the hen-hawk, but has a much longer tail. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The male is of a bluish slate-color; the female reddish-brown, like the hen-hawk, with a white rump. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
When a hen-hawk hove in sight, the male immediately set off after him, and it was ridiculous to see that great, strong bird hurrying away as fast as his clumsy wings would carry him, as soon as he saw the little, waspish kingbird coming. ❋ John Muir (1876)
Heard in the depths of the woods, quavering aloft, it is felt to be as much a part of nature, an original force, as the northwest wind or the scream of the hen-hawk. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
There are so many things to distract the attention -- a chipmunk in the fence, a bird on a near-tree, and a hen-hawk circling high in the air over the barnyard. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
He is the dreaded blue hen-hawk of New England, and is about twenty-three inches long, and forty-four from tip to tip of wings. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
That man's like a hen-hawk among the chickens, first he picks up one, and then he picks up another. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)
