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Meanings of black hen in English

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Usage of black hen in English
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And now that little black hen lay there, suddenly struck down, dead!
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4
2
The man has fed the black hen and the fat duck.
McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition
3
The black hen got over the fence last night; she's down in the lot.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 / A Magaz...
4
She always had just such stories in her head and the black hen besides.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The little black hen was lying on the ground, dead, killed as by lightning.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4
6
Don't be fooled, the black hen lays a white egg.
Dagmar's daughter
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Holding the black hen firmly by the head, Tarquinius laid it down on the stones.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
8
The black hen has got a lot of little chickens and the jonquils are in bloom.
Mary Cary: "Frequently Martha"
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But the black hen is free to travel.
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
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Thus the black hen lays a white egg.
Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
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So the ogre's wife brought him a great big black hen with a shiny red comb.
English Fairy Tales
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For a week that old black hen has circumvented me, but at last I have conquered.
Betty Zane
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And the black hen doesn't even lay eggs.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
14
And fer airesipelus, I don't know nothin' so good as the blood of a black hen.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana
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He becomes a grain of wheat, and she a high-crested black hen -and swallows him.
The folklore of discworld
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The older the black hen the better.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana
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