" Wi-shang Mau accosted Confucius, saying, "Kiu, how comes it that you manage to go perching and roosting in this way?

"And what are those two bird-roosts on it?" asked Trendon.

" "I suppose you go to roost with the chickens in the country?"

It is doubtless a libel on the colored race to state that even the majority of its members are chicken thieves by descent rather than inclination, just as it is a libel on their religion to insinuate that a colored camp meeting is almost certain to involve severe inroads into the chicken coops and roosts of the neighboring farmers.

I'll rule the roost for that.

No! you may be sure that a fox prefers a cosy hen-roost to the finest run with the hounds ever made.

Forthwith the other Cock came out of his corner and ruled the roost without a rival.

Every morning I awake to find half-a-dozen hens and their gentleman-friend roosting along my anatomy.

"He had a right to set a spring gun in his own shed to protect his turkey roost from marauders.

Some rain fell during the night, but this inconvenience was trifling compared to the discordant screams of a bird which had roosted over our fires, and which the people called the cat-bird.

It will be remembered that in times gone by the State of Texas decided to desert its Latin parents and roost under the shadow of the eagle's wing, thereby earning for itself prosperity and an evil reputationin certain quarters.

Think of the nerve of this bird comin' here to roost after what he done.