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  • Really, the hennish outline is quite striking, although I'm disturbed by the missing legs and feet.

    The End of Sweetness Jen 2009

  • Her voice is extensive, but wanting cultivation, and decidedly pea-hennish; besides that, she is apt to go out of tune.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • Her voice is extensive, but wanting cultivation, and decidedly _pea-hennish_; besides that, she is apt to go out of tune.

    Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

  • And, had he not been by his confederate, as with a dunghill cock, trodden as it were and gotten with egg, I doubt whether ever his hennish heart, joined to his shrewd wit, would have served him, so soon to put the Q. 's green and tender state in so manifest peril and adventure.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • A hen I call him, as well for his cackling, ready and smooth tongue, wherein he giveth place to none, as for his deep and subtle art in hiding his serpentine eggs from common men's sight: chiefly for his hennish heart and courage, which twice already hath been well proved to be as base and deject at the sight of any storm of adverse fortune, as ever was hen's heart at the sight of a fox.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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