chicken-house

From there he gained the roof of a chicken-house, passed over the ridgepole and dropped to the ground inside.

The God's Domain 2010

Ireland, let alone the three kingdoms itself, and who fitted up the chicken-house to accommodate his friends when they honoured him unexpectedly with their company.

Castle Rackrent 2006

New Town Tullyhog — made it their choice, often and often, when there was no room to be had for love nor money, in long winter nights, to sleep in the chicken-house, which Sir Patrick had fitted up for the purpose of accommodating his friends and the public in general, who honoured him with their company unexpectedly at Castle

Castle Rackrent 2006

He lived in summer in a little shed behind the chicken-house, and in winter in the ante-room of the bathhouse; in the bitter frosts he spent the night in the hayloft.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

The common run of pythons is 10 – 15 feet, or rather I should say this is about the sized one you find with painful frequency in your chicken-house.

Travels in West Africa 2003

A disease, in many respects strikingly similar to beriberi in man, suddenly broke out in the chicken-house at the laboratory in Batavia, and this called for a thorough study.

Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture 1965

At another time she had a poultry-mania, and a chicken-house with the most approved nests, warming-apparatus, etc., was constructed for the little lady, and here she daily set the hens, fed the chickens, and collected the eggs, selling them to her father at exorbitant prices.

Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

Desperately we got up to look round for some shelter, and George, our champion "scrounger," discovered a chicken-house.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

The Southern lady interrogated her colored cook, Matilda, concerning a raid made on the chicken-house during the night.

Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous

'I'm sure I don't know what to do with him,' she complained; 'he runs away from school whenever he get a chance, and last Sunday he breaks into my neighbour's chicken-house, and smashes a whole set of eggs that was being' atched!

Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story Amy le Feuvre