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Meanings of setting hen in English
Usage of setting hen in English
1
On some straw in the shade of the eaves was a setting hen.
2
The setting hen is filled with hatred for every living thing.
3
Logic, rhetoric and metaphor are all alike to the setting hen.
4
I couldn't deceive a setting hen or a Berlin wool antimacassar.
5
Then he saw her drag the setting hen from her nest and wring its neck.
6
And Mr Mertzheimer looked madder than a setting hen when you take her off the nest.
7
When she has made up her mind she is as difficult to persuade as a setting hen.
8
I should want to be going up or down; I wouldn't be a setting hen all my life.
9
She marked the eggs with a piece of charcoal to see if other hens laid by the setting hen.
10
I could calculate the actions of a setting hen with her head cut off better than I can this widow's.
11
You are a regular old hen, Georgie K. You cluck at a fellow like a setting hen at one chicken.
12
Janet sat on the landing window seat and cuddled Felicia in her thin arms, crooning over her like a setting hen.
13
I would if I were there, and so would you if you had as much gumption as an old setting hen.
14
I am a real passenger now, and down there I felt like our setting hen when we shut her up in a coop.
15
Mumps comes next, I said, as I sat down by the head of the bed, nearer than I liked to the setting hen.
16
But if the old setting hen was off the nest, I knew which eggs to get and which ones to leave in the nest.