hen-roost

"When did you twig I was the fox at the hen-roost, then?"

Watershed 2010

What was worse, the carnage at Alma, and the cholera, had thinned the army horribly, there was no proper trans-port, and by the time we had lumbered on to Sevastopol peninsula we couldn't have robbed a hen-roost.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost!

Les Miserables 2008

A hen-roost exhibits the most perfect representation of monarchy.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Your father has made Dumay keeper of the hen-roost, take Butscha to watch outside, — poor

Modeste Mignon 2007

A cock, after being defeated, finds consolation in another hen-roost.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The occupants of the “hen-roost” (the name given by conductors to this section of their vehicles) were made to get down outside of every village or town where there was a post of gendarmerie; the overloading forbidden by law, “for the safety of passengers,” being too obvious to allow the gendarme on duty — always a friend to Pierrotin — to avoid the necessity of reporting this flagrant violation of the ordinances.

A Start in Life 2007

We had about sixty couple of the oldest inhabitants of the hen-roost on board, which were intended for the consumption of the saloon passengers — a destiny which they have since fulfilled: young fowls die on shipboard, only old ones standing the weather about the line.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

‘She puts the child on the hen-roost and repeats some charm ....’

Anna Karenina 2003

But in what way this trouble of poverty and ignorance is to be cured by schools is as incomprehensible as how the hen-roost affects the screaming.

Anna Karenina 2003