fowl-run

Beyond the yard the ground fell away gradually in a long vegetable-garden and fowl-run to the town wall, and the family holding extended even beyond, through an arched doorway to an open stretch of smooth grass going down to the riverside.

The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

It is no ponderous affair of logs, or stones, or asphalt; a very simple, homely thing went to its making: just wire-netting, with a two-inch mesh, the kind one uses for the fowl-run!

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

In the fowl-run a hen was crooning sleepily in its coop.

Love Among the Chickens 1928

A Bolshevist hen, always at the bottom of any disturbance in the fowl-run, a bird which ate its head off daily at our expense and bit the hands which fed it by resolutely declining to lay a single egg.

Love Among the Chickens 1928

I had only heard casual mention of this relative hitherto, but I had built up a mental picture of her partly from remarks which Ukridge had let fall, but principally from the fact that he had named the most malignant hen in our fowl-run after her.

Love Among the Chickens 1928

You might just as well stop on, and help me in the fowl-run.

Love Among the Chickens 1928

To me, as I stood with Ukridge in the fowl-run in the morning following my maritime conversation with the professor, regarding a hen that had posed before us, obviously with a view to inspection, there appeared a man carrying an envelope.

Love Among the Chickens 1928

"This is the fowl-run, professor," I broke in, with a moist, tingling feeling across my forehead and up my spine.

Love Among the Chickens 1928

After tea I'll show you the garden, and we'll choose a place for a fowl-run.

Love Among the Chickens 1928

Deprived of physical labour, with the exception of golf and bathing -- trivial sports compared with work in the fowl-run at its hardest -- I tried to make up for it by working at my novel.

Love Among the Chickens 1928