The man who lost his life against a henroost, is in the same pickle with him who lost his life against a fortified place of the first order. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The cold gray light of early dawn had given place to saffron, and the first drowsy challenge from the henroost had been shrilly answered from far and near, when old man Jerry awoke from his nap in the chimney corner, and, finding himself chilled through all his old, rheumatic bones, bent over the dying embers, pushed together the blackened and half-burned "chunks," and blew them until they glowed. ❋ Margaret Devereux (N/A)
Upset the henroost, devoured what was left of the cow, dug up the verdurous three acres, and till two o'clock in the morning harried the Commissioners under the Scotch University Act. _Business done_. ❋ Various (N/A)
As I write, the bilious countenance of a culprit is peeping through the iron grates of a window, who, may be, is atoning for having invaded a henroost or bagged an unsuspecting pig. ❋ Various (N/A)
Arrived at the henroost (your neighbor's, not your own), you light a match and hold it under first one and then another pullet's nose until they are willing to go into that bag without making any trouble about it. ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)
Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot. ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)
The entrance to the rock cave is still shown, at the mouth of Kaliuwaa valley, where Kamapuaa's grandmother shut up her chickens at night, and it was for robbing his uncle's henroost that this rascally pig-god was chased away from Oahu. ❋ Martha Warren Beckwith (1915)
Your goin 'over there is the best thing for the -- the henroost that ever was or ever will be. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
Women with a great deal of money and no experience opened "hospitals" that were about as fit for the reception and treatment of wounded men as a henroost is capable of housing an eagle. ❋ Kelly Miller (1901)
The world forgives him for debauching another man's wife, but would never have forgiven him had he raided the same man's henroost. ❋ Unknown (1898)
"You see, somebody might lift them from the henroost before you had a chance to cook them," he went on soberly. ❋ Edward Stratemeyer (1896)
The bear and the wolf burst into the cattle-sheds and devoured all the cows and sheep, the fox feasted in the henroost, while the hare had the free run of the oatfield. ❋ Nico [Illustrator] Jungman (1893)
Latimer was moderately fond of animals, and particularly interested in small livestock rearing from the economic point of view; in fact, one of the pamphlets on which he was at that moment engaged warmly advocated the further development of the pig and poultry industry in our rural districts; but he was pardonably unwilling to share even a commodious bedroom with samples of henroost and stye products. ❋ 1870-1916 Saki (1893)
They allows he's about the size of a yearlin 'calf; an' the way he pulls down sech feeble people as sheep or lays desolate some he'pless henroost don't bother him a bit. ❋ Various (1887)
Let it suffice to say, Ichabod stole forth with the air of one who had been sacking a henroost, rather than a fair lady's heart. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)
Snow, snow everywhere, for weeks and for months, and intense cold, and no henroost accessible, and no carcass of sheep or pig in the neighborhood! ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
If the mink met a muskrat or a rabbit in his travels, or came upon a grouse, or quail, or a farmer's henroost, he had the supper he was in quest of. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
