A domestic hen ready to brood.
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Examples for "sitter "
1 He adores his children & grandchildren and is a very good baby - sitter .
2 On the wall to the sitter 's left is a small plastic sign:
3 I don't know how long you told the sitter to keep Ashley.
4 They finished a minute ahead of pole - sitter Oliver Jarvis in a Mazda.
5 Roisin paid the fare and rushed inside to let the baby - sitter away.
1 The demeanour of broody concern in the official photograph makes sense now.
2 Another mid-tempo broody type of track it has many rhythmic changes.
3 The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat.
4 Finn's always been that mysterious broody type, but I don't know.
5 Let's get a stuffed broody hen to SIT on the magazine.
1 Why, it's finer than our parson's brood hen .
2 There appeared to be little likelihood that Mr. Eisenhower's plane might clip the tree, the secret service is as overprotective as a brood hen .
3 Was it impossible to gather such under the wings of any night- brooding hen ?
4 Some bowls with their lids in the form of brooding hens were Staffordshire & meant to hold candies.
5 Two lawyers, each clever in his own way, were watching every move with the faithfulness of brooding hens .
1 The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat.
2 Let's get a stuffed broody hen to SIT on the magazine.
3 The eggs are picked up promptly and hatched under a broody hen , preferably a Muscovy duck.
4 A broody hen squealed at him.
5 The old thing is sittin' there like a broody hen spittin' at 'em, and the swine are running like hell.
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.
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