hen-coop

I searched round the sea for wreckage; but there was nothing, not even an odd hen-coop, or a piece of deck furniture; and so I threw away that idea, as impossible.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

Their families ate the birds, and the hen-coop was split into firewood with a hatchet.

Amy Foster 2006

I assured her we were indifferent to the quality of our supper; and looking round for the means of accommodation, which were not easily to be found, I arranged an old hen-coop as a seat for Mr. Jarvie, and turned down a broken tub to serve for my own.

Rob Roy 2005

When this wild mass dashed onward into the swelling flood before us, there was no sign of Lyceum left, but stubs of foundation, and a mangled roof rolling over and over, like a hen-coop.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

In fact, not so much as a hen-coop had been left on her spar deck, which was clean swept by the violence of the gale, that also seemed to have nearly parted her in two a little abaft the main-chains.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

And yet she looked so dimpled, so charming, as she stooped down to put the soaked bread under the hen-coop, that you must have been a very acute personage indeed to suspect her of that hardness.

Adam Bede 2004

In the evening an aquatic bird, a species of booby (Sula fiber.) rested on our hen-coop, and was caught by the neck by one of my boys.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The moon was shining; and, if they had had a glass in the boat, I believe they might have seen my head, though I carefully kept the hen-coop between me and them.

Armadale 2003

A hen-coop, some broken spars, and fragments of shattered plank were the first evidences discovered of the terrible disaster that had happened.

Armadale 2003

I took the first thing I came to — a hen-coop — and swam away with it about a couple of hundred yards, keeping the yacht between me and the boat.

Armadale 2003