The woman was big, bigger than most women who rule the roost and do the work in haunts where work calls for muscle and a good head behind it.

Surely, stealing pine-trees in this way is not so mean as robbing hen-roosts.

He had found the turkey roost and had selected the biggest old gobbler of them all.

The tinkling of the bell on the home-going cow is his breakfast bell, and sunset the signal for him to leave his roost.

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

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

Fortunately Mr. Alden always kept a loaded rifle on a rack on the kitchen wall with which to shoot foxes that attempted to raid his hen-roost.

The Consarvatives painted thurselves bloo, and the Radicals yaller, an' thay as danced the longest, the Roomans sent to Parlyment to rool the roost.

He beat at the empty air for a moment like a rotund fowl about to seek its roost.

The new madam was not allowed to share the high roost on the elm.

At other times while the great poet was singing his sweetest songs, we would seize his ancient roosters by their tails, and while they were making night hideous with their lamentations, the angry couple would bombard the hen-roosts with shovels, hoes and other weapons in the hope of slaughtering the marauders.

He was a giant in strength and stature, and used to boast that he could visit "any hen-roost in the village every night in the week, and carry off a dozen chickens each time, without being nabbed."

Peacocks disdain a "roost" and seek the top of some tall tree; they are also rovers by nature and hate confinement.

I thought maybe, until I see Dr. Thorne, that he done it out of mischieviousness, as boys will do, you know,jest as they steal a feller's apples, and knock his turkeys of'n the roost,but yander's not one of them kind; so he must 'a' been crazy, and I'm rael sorry he's been so bad put to about it,I am, indeed.