38 Verbs to Use for the Word chicks

Sarah Platt Decker Chapter, N.S.D.A.R. (PCW); 6Aug70; R489538. D'AULAIRE, EDGAR PARIN. Don't count your chicks.

And when in the sunlit run by the sandy bank under the shadow of the pine trees he saw the chicks that had eaten the food he had mixed for them, gigantic and gawky, bigger already than many a hen that is married and settled and still growing, still in their first soft yellow plumage (just faintly marked with brown along the back), he knew indeed that his happiest day had come.

Taking the weight of the birds at the fair average of five pounds each, we thus see them producing within a year double their weight of egg alone; and, supposing every egg to contain a chick, and allowing the chick to, grow, in less than eighteen months from the laying of the first egg, two thousand five hundred pounds of chicken-meat would be the result.

"Oh, if you only knew, my dear, dear chicks, what it will be to escape this kindly imprisonmentwhat it will mean to see you all again!

THE SNOW-BIRD'S SONG The ground was all covered with snow one day, And two little sisters were busy at play, When a snow-bird was sitting close by on a tree, And merrily singing his chick-a-dee-dee, Chick-a-dee-dee, chick-a-dee-dee, And merrily singing his chick-a-dee-dee.

For instance, one of my hens, setting unbeknown to anybody in a warm corner of the barn, has hatched out a dozen little chicks.

Let me catch you![In driving back the CHICK, he finds himself near the kennel.

Ef you're poor, she's a woman, and real lonesome too; she ha'n't got nuther chick

People pass every few minutes within a pace or two, yet the old bird has not deserted its chick.

They were accused of eating young moor-chicks.

When the great high-powered car from Shale Court stopped at the gate of the blacksmith's cottage on the following morning Mrs. Rickett, who was feeding her young chicks in the yard outside the forge, was thrown into a state of wild agitation.

I remember once in a California yard, how a hen flew in my face angrily because I had frightened her chicks.

Little Red Hen gathered her chicks under her wing to keep them cosy and warm, and then she, too, went to sleep.

When he sees G. come through the compound, he bounds to my room, holds up the chick and announcing "Mees come," retires, stiff with pride at his knowledge of the language.

Poor Cuthbert Melcombe, the eldest son, had left neither chick nor child; no more had poor Griffith, the youngest.

I said we should have to try something smaller, for I didn't think we could manage a chick of that size on our lot; and that I should trust in Providence.

"Ajax," said I, "we have eaten the Swiggarts' salt, not to mention their fatted chicks, their pickled peaches, their jams and jellies.

There can be but little doubt now, that while Mr. Skinner was plying Mr. Bensington's chicks with Herakleophorbia IV, a number of wasps were just as industriouslyperhaps more industriouslycarrying quantities of the same paste to their early summer broods in the sand-banks beyond the adjacent pine-woods.

THE GUINEA-HEN [Pointing out several CHICKS walking among the crowd.]

THE GUINEA-HEN [Presenting the CHICKS.]

This is an age and stage of development of the Emperor chick of which we have no knowledge, and it would have been a triumph to have secured the chick, but, alas!

" "Yes, you will, my dear," replied her uncle; "and to avoid separating you chicks from your pin-money I'm going to stand every cent of the expense myself.

All sleeps.[He spies a CHICK stealing out.]

Just as I had taken off my habit and was preparing to start off with Mand the chicks for Jones's, in the wood wagon, old Dorcas, one of the most decrepid, rheumatic, and miserable old negresses from the further end of the plantation, called in to beg for some sugar.

"It is I, the vulture, son of a vulture, who steals chicks from under her mother.

38 Verbs to Use for the Word  chicks