I looked into the black eye of the chicken and, thankfully, saw nothing, not a flicker of fear. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He opened the taps in the sink and bathtub and went out to check on her chickens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though Mr. Ray said he understood where I was coming from, I still felt a little stupid turning down his offer when the only other option was to work in a grimy chicken spot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As Grandma India was scooping up the collard greens onto our plates and Papa was cutting the chicken and cornbread, I heard the front door open and Mother called out to us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

People always need food—many tried to turn to farming, and in the shattered suburbs, people grew their lawns into paddocks, chicken yards, and plots. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Fulfilling my duty as godfather,” said Sirius, gnawing on the chicken bone in a very doglike way. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Mom and Dad would let us get a pet chicken?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At the family table, this mischievous older sister handed me a plate that contained a single chicken wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cornish Cross is a type of chicken bred for the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

While I don’t know about the cleverness part, I do know that I am curious about the world—from worms and bugs to chicken fights and the bras Ma hangs in her room. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back home, we always ate fresh chicken, no chemicals. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Agnes says it likes tomatoes, but it’s not like we can afford to waste tomatoes on a chicken my parents don’t know exists and wouldn’t necessarily want to catch anyway. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“And my low was knocking my chicken off my plate with my knife. I wanted to die.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At the party, at the corrugated tin shack of Maria Isabel’s cousin, Jasmin eats chicken, tries to blow up a red balloon, and borrows a pink bike with training wheels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I ask around a big bite of my fried chicken and rice. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Queenie fried a chicken and cooked up a mess of vegetables for dinner that day, but I don’t think Papa knew what he was eating. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And I want to learn about poultry, or at least chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She slides a pack of chicken in, next to the frozen vegetables that are already in there. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Didu, my other grandmother, is making chicken curry and biryani rice. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He spoke to her around a mouthful of fried chicken while she had her head inside the fridge. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were doughnut shops and fried chicken places in his neighborhood; but Wilson’s fiancee, Melvina Murrell Green, found it hard to find fresh produce and good fish. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Cut trees, cane; plowed till he could hardly lift his arms; plucked chickens and cotton; hauled lumber, grain, quarry rocks and stock. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know there were going to be chicken thieves. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Not only did we have our big garden, but we raised chickens. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is the warm, yeasty smell of fresh bread and roasted chicken. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knows that the question doesn’t mean any old egg. Did the chicken or the chicken egg come first?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Later on, I bring her a tray of chicken pot pie. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Just a little tired, Daddy says to me, when I tiptoe in with chicken soup, sit on the edge of the bed and try to get him to take small sips. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

To put it plainly, we were going to spend the morning killing chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Other towns sent livestock, chickens, and carts of vegetables. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But we were talking about the chicken, and about Mom making up her mind. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Later, when the other Japanese families arrived, we ate all night long: salted rice balls, fish cakes, rice crackers, rice candies, and barbecued chicken. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I ran for the trees along Ms. Griegson’s fence, waving my arms and yelling, as though that could somehow save my chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He scurried out of the shed and ran toward the chicken roost. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She went out and bought a roasting chicken and a bakery store pie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to deal with her chicken soup. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mother boiled the chicken to loosen the feathers before she plucked them and opened up the cavity. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You really shouldn’t eat that, Ben. Fried foods aren’t good for you. First of all, there’s the cholesterol—” Phoebe removed two pieces of chicken from Ben’s plate and put them back on the serving platter. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He might have liked chickens, but he did not like the praetor’s dogs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because a chicken showed up yesterday, and I think it must be one of yours, because it is really definitely not an ordinary chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had been content to sit in the sun and watch the chickens scratching around in the chicken run. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I put chicken wire around 'em, and even on top, but people could still reach in if they tried. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell her it wouldn’t be a good idea to bring my chickens to a show. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

This was how I knew not to name a chicken, even the ones that strutted around the run as if they had a name. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Fist smeared honey on Trashman’s fingers and stuck a chicken feather to them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the food on the table, there is a to-go fried chicken dinner, a fish and chips plate, a fresh fruit plate, and six large pickles. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For the next few days, instead of calling the fish market, Mrs. Sen thawed chicken legs in the kitchen sink and chopped them with her blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I think Dad felt kind of guilty, because he gave my shoulders a hug when we went into the library, and said, “Buck up, Soph. There’ll be other chickens eventually.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He lifts the plate and starts eating the chicken. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I set down the chicken and lay my head in her lap. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish, and I fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They covered the gourd with crossed cloths, then killed a black chicken and laid it over the offerings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m goin’ to get you some quilts and things from Nancy’s place; I’ll bring you what grub I can lay hands on—I can always get eggs and a chicken for you. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fried chicken and meat loaf were more up her alley. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She found herself in a panic, hoping he left the chickens alone. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Better to hunker down in his house with his chickens and forget. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Generally a good big roast chicken. She can gum that for days.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had six goats and five hives of bees and a flock of chickens and a herd of geese and a pair of cardinals that stayed near his house the whole year around. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A smell similar to that of rotten chicken innards left out in the hot sun for too many days. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then, she kills a chicken and prepares it for him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You know I like you, Alex. You drive a hard bargain, and I respect that. I don’t cheat you. For you, a couple of cans of chicken noodle soup.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Indians slept at the verges of fields or in old chicken houses or barns. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

People in the countryside died like chickens on a hot summer day. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have chickens, cows, and pigs traded one set of predators for another? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She stares up at Fabian as he sucks on a chicken bone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I saved some chicken for my father—the breast, and half the biscuit. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And even special chickens—or maybe especially special chickens—can’t be left on their own by the side of the road for an hour without any sort of box or anything. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Chicken pox, God, chicken pox, think of it! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds up her hands, messy from cooking, coated with flour and chicken fat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the chicken again and licked his finger before he yanked the other leg off, eating it until he had only the cracked, sucked pieces of bones left in his hand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Enough chitchatting! You think those chickens are going to pluck themselves?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I probably would’a overslept, but the sound of a chicken crowing had raised me up early. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Were my number translated into dollars, it would buy you about three buckets of fried chicken. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

People also found it cheaper to feed corn to chickens and hogs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes the space heater had the place positively tropical, while in the toaster oven their five-pound Thanksgiving chicken was already beginning to brown. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while the chickens are nibbling on the grasses, they add a few thousand pounds of nitrogen to the pasture with their own droppings— and produce several thousand rich and tasty eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I pledged allegiance to the chickens and then I sat down on the back steps next to my grandmother who was shelling peas. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am annoyed that he could scare me into mistaking a sliding chicken crate for a cracking ship’s hull. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I guess I never really was afraid of a chicken before. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I watched him pull the chicken meat from around the bone with his fork. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle half expected him to start scratching the toe of his shoe at the dirt, searching for chicken feed. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She would like some toast with butter right now, and maybe some chicken. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Throwing scoops of com to the chickens and mixing sour dry mash with leftover food and oily dish water for the hogs were among our evening chores. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your mother makes the best chicken, Maria says. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We need to be eating this chicken before it get cold,” I say. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I guessed that skinny red chicken was still running around St. Nick somewhere. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She glances down at the lightly fried chicken that everyone except Beth is eating for dinner. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Looks like maybe you might want to mail your chickens to the poultry show? Or are your parents on their way?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Only this one looked like the weasel that used to steal our chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized how hungry I am until I smell the fried chicken, string beans, macaroni and cheese, and homemade dinner rolls. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The chickens better get their own little gree-grees to wear on their necks, I reckon. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At first they thought it was funny—you know, ‘Chicken is chickens,’ ha ha. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Yes, the woman said that she wanted a boy who could milk a cow, feed chickens, gather vegetables, help serve breakfast and dinner. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most important morning chores was feeding and watering the chickens and moving their pens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Most people made fesenjoon with chicken, but my late aunt had reinvented it with bite-size meatballs, and it had become a family recipe in her honor. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Apparently, that’s why she really couldn’t sell that jerk the chicken. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There early every morning the farmers arrived from all over the surrounding countryside, with trucks full of tomatoes, corn, cabbages, potatoes, eggs, chickens, hams, food for the city. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Dirty water from washing up. Maybe some blood and guts. I was butchering chickens for stew.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maid lays pressed chicken on our plates, tops it with a perky dollop of mayonnaisey dressing, and we all smile, glad for the mood breaker. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“So what? The chicken is the smart one!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

After the work, there were great quantities of food—chicken, pork, vegetables, corn bread, fruit—better food than the herring and corn meal field hands usually saw so much of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

One Sunday my mother invited the tall, black preacher to a dinner of fried chicken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagines the thousands of turkeys and chickens, the cows, and the hundred and fifty rosy-cheeked adults and children, settling in for the night. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Some people touched the hot pipe if you called them chicken as well. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Your make-do is better than the Ritz,” I said, helping myself to some more chicken and dumplings. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She sets it on the table, and the chicken breasts and legs smothered in mushrooms and red sauce stare up at Justyce. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She felt so relieved to see the wayward chicken again that she put her hand out enthusiastically to shake the boy’s free hand. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’s picked up roast chicken and side dishes at a gourmet shop in town. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Choose among ten—pea, chicken noodle, beef and veg., insert the coin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m fast, but I was running with the chicken crate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me get two chicken and mambo sauce, with extra salt on the fries.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I went and read about chickens in the green chair in the corner of the library. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She could eat chicken because she had never befriended one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And I know that letting Henrietta open the door and let all the chickens out without even trying to put them back in is just as bad. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Slabs of ham, poached eggs, the leg of a roast chicken, thick Irish stew, lemon meringue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When it’s my turn, I fill my plate with rice, shami kabob, lentils, and butter chicken, skipping the cauliflower and salad, and pile the naan high before carefully carrying it downstairs to the basement. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It has bagels and soup and sugar and chicken in it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She gave a hard violent jerk at the string on the chickens’ legs, and with a squawk and a wild fluttering of wings, the chickens ran back down the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garlic and chicken and watercress, the same soup that Cook had made the day the queen died. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He said, We ate chicken for the first time in many years. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The place was large; they had a cow, chickens, a garden, all of which spelled food and that decided me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew him a map on the back of a mauve flyer, which advertised a chicken roast to raise money for a young girl who needed a new kidney. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They will just have to agree then that having a chicken is the best thing ever. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“She will give you milk with things in it and tell you stories of places called New this and Old that. Then you can go outside with her and feed the horses and chickens.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped in an old pan for their water trough and fastened the chicken coop door closed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

August 17 American Chicken Most food our cowboy brings is wrapped in plastic or pushed into cans, while chicken and beef are chopped and frozen. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His grandma had only four Sunday dinners in her repertoire—chicken- fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, pot roast, and corned beef—but they were all good. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Taking a nap,” responded Fadi, grabbing the box of chicken nuggets she held out. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Even Charlie Valentine, who would come over looking for one of his wandering chickens, or for a game of cards. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s as if he were to say in a restaurant, “Yes, I’ll have some more coffee and, ah, I’m choking on a chicken bone.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The goats were bellyaching as well, bleating loud enough to compete with the chickens. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Liz and Mark’s older son, Matthew, who is fifteen, asked a lot of questions about killing chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But then she thought about what he said, and she tried something new: She bought a small amount of chicken—a quarter pound—and mixed it with beans and cabbage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s chicken stewed in pomegranate juice and pureed walnuts,” she said. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Instead, we began going to another site at the other end of the veld, where a chicken factory, Sunnyside, dumped loads of dead, diseased chickens, and rejected eggs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could chicken out now and tell her never mind. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was in the back with a wicker picnic hamper and also a couple of chickens—laying hens—which were legitimately being taken to another farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She used to bury chicken bone leftovers in her sandbox for digging practice. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After the tour the head of marketing drove me out to the chicken houses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

No one could catch chicken pox over the phone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So I thought about my chickens, and I went inside and asked Ms. O’Malley where the meeting room was. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“If Mom has a big event down at the hotel, that means there’s a ton of food. Your choice of chicken, beef, or fish.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

But Ms. Griegson was still there, with her arms crossed, just looking at me and my chickens, waiting. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Cold salmon and mayonnaise, cutlets in aspic, galantine of chicken soufflé. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve learned that you can use an old evening gown to catch rainwater and that grubs taste a lot like chicken. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Our mother should have cooked real food for us—at the very least baked a chicken. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We like to died laughing, watching that bloated chicken wobble around like a dern balloon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her grandma lived in Florida, in one of those assisted-living places that always smelled like baked chicken. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“If he knows you have a gun maybe he’ll be too chicken to ever come around at all.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok had followed the clues she’d picked up from the young woman at the chicken stand, circling closer and closer to Pong's whereabouts. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It’s extra sweet Ma bought chicken so we don’t have to eat in the gross cafeteria. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The chickens liked me, as long as I didn’t bring Mouse along. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I ate rabbit stew and chicken when I could, same as everyone else. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Come on, let’s dance before I chicken out and hide in the bathroom,” she says. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Sammy followed my example and ripped a chicken leg in two. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She perched on a chair at the back and ate fried chicken wings with her fingers, her eyes on the TV screen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The curassow, which looks somewhat similar to a chicken, whistles when it senses danger and prefers to run instead of fly. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The chickens would serve to distract the attention of anyone who passed her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care much about the man whose chickens I’d taken. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, in one cage, a no longer functioning false animal, a chicken. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The extra money was enough to buy a whole chicken. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The chickens squawked with alarm, and Addison shot me a nasty look. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the restaurant they were seated side by side at a round table with a revolving platter of spareribs and egg rolls and chicken wings, which, they concurred, all tasted the same. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Inside, it was warm and bright and smelled like fried chicken and toast and coffee. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s chicken,” he said, standing over her, watching her. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He had found the first pair of goats for Harry and had provided the first chickens. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I lift the string over the railing and drop the chicken into the pail. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Come on, you two. I’m not raising a bunch of chickens.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And then I felt that shadow again, and the chickens started to run, and I ran after them, flapping my arms and yelling to keep that hawk away. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Funny that,” Grace said, patting one of the oven mitts in the shape of a chicken. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether the witch would be old and iron-toothed and travel in a house on chicken legs, or whether she would be thin and sharp-nosed and carry a broomstick. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They include cat scratch fever from our cats, leptospirosis from our dogs, psittacosis from our chickens and parrots, and brucellosis from our cattle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves were still about, stealing a farmer’s chickens in a morning raid, but the hounds had the scent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The chicken and zucchini casserole was so comforting and so delicious that we stuffed ourselves until we couldn’t move. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the three pieces of chicken on Ben’s plate. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She opened the refrigerator and I saw familiar containers of chicken salad, vermicelli, vegetables, stuffed squash, all things I had brought for Morrie. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roustabouts, once roused, run around like headless chickens. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Lefty was waiting for us on the stoop, munching on a chicken drumstick. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned around and looked at all the chicken in the hotbed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She stood at the stove stirring tomato sauce around chicken meatballs. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It resembles rotting chicken livers left out in the sun for too long. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get back to the crumbledown with Moonie and don’t you know it, Grandma has made two chicken dinners. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They got under way slicing ham, laying out fried chicken, shaking paprika on the deviled eggs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she laid out a plate of fried chicken. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, in the name of all that’s holy, it has to be chicken pox, a child’s disease, a disease that doesn’t even kill children on Earth! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

After learning more about chickens and completing Lessons 1 and 2, you may wish to retake the quiz or write a 1,000-word essay on why you ought to be able to keep chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The next morning I was up with the chickens. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mister Singer’s got fried chicken for his supper and he hasn’t eaten one piece yet,’ the little boy said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He ate the whole chicken, very quickly too, and as he ate he watched the dog from the corner of his eye. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“People were playing Tanzanian music and dancing, and one businessman came and ordered chicken and beer for everybody,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I give him a chicken leg, and I take one. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

From within the house, the unmistakable smell of boiling chicken broth flooded the alley. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Salads and roast chickens and vegetables and soups and such. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"A chicken that lays eggs of gold?" the judge said, his eyes lighting with greed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The pieces of the chicken Jaja had killed had turned a deep yellow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We ran off, dodging the chickens milling around in the yard, tuck-tuck-tucking a food call to each other. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

What not to feed chickens: Avoid desserts, citrus peels, coffee grounds, moldy food, and junk food, and limit scraps to a small portion of your chickens’ meals. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Also, organic cows, like Rosie the organic chicken, are never fed corn that contains residues of atrazine, the herbicide commonly sprayed on American cornfields. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Back outside, I took in deep breaths of fresh air and walked, my feet scuffing up dust, over to the next chicken house. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Probably there were cats and rabbits and chickens and ducks too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Two goats and a few chickens sauntered around, nibbling and pecking at drying stems of grass. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know you said no chicks, but this new chicken looked like a girl chicken, not like a rooster. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Picking up a lump of mashed potato with a piece of chicken. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure why, but we had nothing in the nets this morning except the inkfish, and the chickens aren’t laying well. It’s weird that both happened at the same time.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Oranges, bread, beer, soft drinks: many things in packets and cans were arranged on different levels and, and on the topmost, a roasted shimmering chicken, whole but for a leg. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, there was very little to do for the chickens. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I put a couple sprigs of parsley into the chicken to purty it up. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And a little white chicken was standing in front of it, glaring at it, first with one eye and then with the other. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I guess he probably already knows everyone, and all their chickens too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The chocolaty sauce of the chicken enchiladas spilled out of the rolled-up tortillas and mixed in with the rice and beans, making the dish extra delicious. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Did you have a small white angry chicken? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Pattie always bought chicken feet from the man who sold organic eggs. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A male doll with a small painted chicken bone stuck between its legs and a round red circle painted on its belly. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went back and forth that way for a time—pork chops and spinach, chicken and grapefruit, beef Stroganoff and eggplant—and she was right, dead right every time. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She said it was too late to enter chickens into the show, but I should come anyway so I’d know what to expect at the next one. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She is setting out the cylindrical food flask full of jollof rice and chicken. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know my way around a coop,” I said, although I didn’t really want to stick my hands beneath any feathered chicken butts. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Years after Carrel died awaiting trial for collaborating with the Nazis, scientist Leonard Hayflick grew suspicious of the chicken heart. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had chicken to wash, flour, and fry and a lemon cake to bake and frost. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A skinny bald man—who sort of resembled a plucked chicken in a bright blue suit—strutted out the lobby door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They’d eat at restaurants with shiny menus that promised free ice cream after the mini corn dogs or chicken nuggets. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘Cold liver pudding and chicken salad sandwiches and pie.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the day of my move to the Hopkins Park Plaza, I wake up savoring the thought of the perishables I’m going to stock my refrigerator with: mayonnaise, mustard, chicken breasts. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After removing the chicken from the oven, I spread the crinkled leaves of kale on a cookie sheet, sprinkled them with olive oil and salt, and slid them into the hot oven to roast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The chicken coop squatted between the pigsty and the mango tree, a branch of which held one end of Mami’s laundry line, the other end stretched to the trunk of an acerola bush. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The old man and the boy sat across from each other and dined not only on cookies, but on creamed chicken, mashed potatoes, and applesauce as well. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our squeals of laughter riled up the chickens, and soon they were flapping their wings, shrieking along with us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She also had to watch our three chickens, who loved to wander away from our farm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would give him anything to eat—with the exception of chicken broth—since it would be a waste of food. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

We unload the crates and set the chickens free to peck around this New World. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When her eyes open, she sighs and says, “Everything smells so good, Mrs. Hameed. It’s like chicken and mashed potatoes decided to dance a ballet with your spice cabinet. What are you making?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“They are getting hungrier and hungrier. Nobody kills chickens these days, and so there are less entrails for them to eat.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

All I could think of was luring the chickens into the dog crate. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The smell of garlic, ginger, and sweet-and-sour chicken wafted through the air. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Through the whole mushroom chicken course I tell her about going back to Yana Urku and needing money for school, and finding this job. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should’ve asked Momma to take me shopping over the weekend, but I was afraid I was going to chicken out about going to practice. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"He just made a joke, you know Jelly. And then he went out and had a whole chicken. Said he wanted to get an appetite for dinner." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because they are not raising identical chickens or cows in giant, crowded sheds, a single illness doesn’t represent a threat to them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care for the company of chickens.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t look like a rat, or a squirrel, or even like a chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I explained the circle of chickens and cows and pigs and grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“But if they do exist, they’re livestock, as you say. That makes it possible for them to be slaughtered like chickens or cattle.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those beds you lay on that come down over the top of you and roast you, and you come out looking like rotisserie chicken. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sophie reaches into her jacket pocket and produces the wishbone from a medium-size chicken. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“As a chicken, thinking clearly becomes an exhausting challenge. My mind was in a haze. To interact with you like a person, even for a moment, required tremendous concentration.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You may bring your ukulele and strum to us while we eat chicken sandwiches. Is Doctor Montague here?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later that evening I heat up two big bowls of chicken soup in the microwave and Charlie reads a sports magazine at the dinner table. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Piper put her new sword to good use, while spraying food from the cornucopia in her other hand—using hams, chickens, apples, and oranges as interceptor missiles. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I had him for a chicken hawk. Are you gay, Cal?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had made cassava leaves with chicken just to welcome me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He nodded toward the cornered mass of chickens remaining in the pen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They burned the fields, the chicken coops, the bicycles, and even the cradles of newborn babies, in a noontime witches’ Sabbath that nearly made Trueba die of joy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun arrived with the chicken, showered, and joined the family for dinner. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I could hear the clucking and squawking of chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody asked Miss Love to, but she explained about Yankee fried chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His foreman was a man defeated by his own pessimistic views, and his news was mostly a series of misfortunes: the strawberries froze, the chickens caught the pip, the grapes rotted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I will enjoy your chicken curry tonight, Ranee," Grandma Rose says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t eat that chicken you don’t get any ’nana pudding.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The machinery there can turn a chicken from a clucking, feathered bird into a shrink-wrapped pack of parts in just ten minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The chicken house is made out of sticks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave her back The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, even though the new chicken hasn’t heard it yet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up or you’ll be eating with the chickens,” he would say. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the aisle, I heard someone asking what to do for her sick chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The woman behind her didn’t look like a chicken thief. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

After checking on the chickens and collecting eggs each morning, it was to be my job to milk the cows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t seen anything but pine trees, a bloodhound, chickens, and two cows. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

These were the church congregations who were always putting out little signs announcing that inside they were selling fried chicken and chitlin dinners to raise some money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep the egg in the fire, ’cause their mothers breathe on ’em, see, an’ when it hatches, feed it on a bucket o’ brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s like the first time we met, when Celia rescued you from the chicken litter.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mean Lady Ming yelled something mean back to the kitchen, and in ten minutes we had a brown bag smelling of fried rice and chicken wings. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of limiting the number of animals, cities could make ordinances to keep people from hoarding chickens in living rooms. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He mostly knows about ducks, but I guess he could read up on chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The New Guineans readily integrated Austronesian chickens, dogs, and especially pigs into their food-producing economies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad finished chewing on his barbecued chicken before giving me a smile that quivered at the edges. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I tried calling my parents over and over, while the chickens rolled around in the dust. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He produced a big basket of chicken, enough to feed a dozen people. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meals are ambitious: poached fish; creamy potato gratins; golden, puffed chickens roasted with whole lemons in their cavities. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sullenly, she set to plucking a chicken while Yoren sat on the end of the bench sharpening the edge of his dirk with a whetstone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Supposedly he and his grown-up sons tell fortunes by throwing chicken bones into a calabash bowl. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabiya thinks cooked carrots are disgusting and picked them all out, but I love the way the slightly sweet rice mixes with salty ground beef kabobs and chunks of juicy chicken. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward so his spittle would hit the emissary’s chicken pie. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Ellidyr then urged the roan into a gallop, hauled Taran across the turf to the cottage, and there, while chickens scattered in every direction, tossed him roughly to the ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey, do I look like I can talk to chickens?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A run-in with Albert convinced Mr. Whiskers that he’d best forget about any chicken dinners. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

His lumpy red hand plops around in the glass casing like the agitated head of a chicken outraged by the loss of its body. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them, all Rhode Island Reds, huddled into a ball at one end of the chicken house his father had built years before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to the HeLa-mouse hybrid, Harris fused HeLa with chicken cells that had lost their ability to reproduce. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lourdes fired her after she found Pilar in her bassinet smeared with chicken blood and covered with bay leaves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And our dog, Bell, and two horses and lots of chickens, cows, and pigs. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

How long could a can of chicken soup and a dented can of string beans last? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We have squash”—she turns back to the stove—“rice, and chicken.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Fried chicken, boiled potatoes, and frozen green peas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The menu was always the same: fried chicken, collard greens, potato salad, boiled okra, sliced tomatoes, corn bread, and chocolate or coconut cake. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. O’Malley introduced me to lots of other adult chicken people who arrived later as “Jim Brown’s grandniece, who inherited his chickens and his good poultry sense.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Almost all of the three hundred chickens we’d processed Wednesday morning would be eaten within a few dozen miles of the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The soles of my shoes were still caked with chicken manure, but I didn’t care. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

One chicken clucked, which got them all to clucking. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“And you managed to stay alive, and raise chickens, eggs, and cows?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Supper was roast chicken with carrots and potatoes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘See—here’s some nice roast chicken or some veal stew. Why don’t you have a little supper with me?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If I’d known I was fighting a chicken,” he said, “I wouldn’t have fought so hard.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two doors down, chickens paraded around the street. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also have horses, cows, goats, sheep, more hogs, more chickens, and more dogs and cats. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That means it’s chicken that has a kind of red sauce and cheese on it. The ‘a la Quincy’ is saying made by Quincy.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So I go to the shed by the side of the house and I take the extra fencing Dad used when we had us more chickens. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that the windows were covered in chicken wire. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Steam rises from the containers of chicken biryani we’re both holding. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The shoot takes place in a festive, picnic atmosphere of barbecued chicken, water ice and frolicking children. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I started trying to guess if there would be mashed potatoes and chicken. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sugar, I run the busiest chicken stand on this canal. You think I'm gonna remember every Pong who comes along?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"He wants to go back to New York alone, and be there when his book comes out so when a lot of little chickens like it. That's what he wants." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had a whole truck full of chickens and things. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They decided I could try keeping Henrietta, as long as we have chicken food, but that we just don’t have enough money for extra pets right now. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I seem to remember those chickens,” said Katie, “a long, long time ago.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not as bad as the situation on fried chicken day, but still it was bad—a little worse than, say, fish-stick day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A farmer played a one-stringed harp like a hunter’s bow and sang to himself as he waited for someone to buy his chickens. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So far in our relationship, Pudge, I’ve seen your chicken legs entirely too often,” the Colonel deadpanned. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, there’s not really any danger,” Jaime said, chewing her chicken nuggets. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All I want’s a chicken sandwich. And maybe a glass of milk....You order what you want and all, though. I mean, take snails and octopuses and things. Octopi. I’m really not at all hungry.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually it, too, began to explore the farmyard and joined its brother and sisters as they all learned how to be chickens. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Dad, more of Great-Uncle Jim’s chickens turned up. Gregory says we need to pick them up today. If we can’t afford to take responsibility for them, he’ll try to find someone else who can.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

People stopped looking at me, but they sure looked at my chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was mostly chickens, but there were also a few goats and hogs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After I did all my chicken chores and my regular chores, I checked to see which of my library books were due. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Not after they left, while my mom made chicken with rice, which is my favorite. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I say, What about doughnuts and fried chicken and genetics? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of meals,” he said, “your ma is having chicken and dumplings for supper. Now we don’t want to miss that, so let’s get busy.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our teammates thought it was funny, for example, to ask Josh and me if we really liked to eat fried chicken and watermelon for dinner. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As she set the spirometer on the side table by my bed, she announced, “For lunch today we’ve got chicken tenders, and fries, and a small salad,” while setting the tray down. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She giggles again and chases out the chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe, he thought, maybe it tasted like chicken. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what happens when you try and make an omelet from a peculiar chicken egg!” said Millard, out of breath and laughing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"I might as well get some ham hocks for the collard greens and a chicken. After all, it is your birthday. Let’s spoil ourselves." March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The cow that lowed, the man who milked, the chickens that came running and the woman who called them, the fragrance streaming from the plowed land and the plowman. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could almost smell her mother’s boiled chicken and yams. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We killed all the animals that were there,” de la O said, “the chickens, the water buffalo, the pigs. We did them all up.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

All my favorite things: creamed chicken, steak on the grill, fried rockfish, chocolate chip cookies. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mother didn’t necessarily agree with him, but I could see she didn’t want us going anywhere near that chicken house to investigate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama’s killed chickens and all kinds of fish and stuff to cook before. And I bet she would kill any anything if it tried to hurt her or one of us.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had agreed this morning, his first of summer camp, to make him chicken nuggets for breakfast. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Fine. I don’t have to see your silly old little chicken, I’ve seen my brothers’, and I bet they’re nicer than yours.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If people ask, just tell them we had the chicken pox,” Lucinda says. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Here are some of the comments I jotted down: “This is the chicken I remember from my childhood. It actu-ally tastes like chicken.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I gave up and sat staring in despair at the vanishing pieces of fried chicken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You pick this chicken clean later tonight, you hear me?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was hard to think of the chicken as Grandma Sorenson. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I was on my way to meet Rosie, the organic chicken. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, when I went to check and make sure Henrietta and Chameleon hadn’t dumped their water jars over yet, I saw that black streak chicken again. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt performs the service, and we have a good meal afterward, with several chickens sacrificed for the celebration. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The preacher had finished his soup and had asked that the platter of chicken be passed to him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his hat from where it had fallen during the chicken roundup. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he does the same with the other chicken. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fly larvae may not seem appetizing to you and me, but that protein-rich diet makes the chickens’ eggs unusually rich and tasty. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen Will found the ingredients for a casserole of chicken and onions and peppers, but they hadn’t been cooked, and in the heat they were smelling bad. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now people from Kenya like to eat chicken very much, so she traded that chicken to a Kenyan driver in exchange for a ride for all of us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about chicken pox? Have I used that excuse already?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t weigh as much as a chicken,” he said. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polynesian food producers variously intensified production of pigs, dogs, and chickens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cows, pigs, dogs, cats, and chickens have thrived, while their wild ancestors have almost disappeared. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s after your chickens! I could hear it thumping around in there while they squawked...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And, also, maybe this is selfish of me, but I didn’t want people to come after this new chicken with pitchforks, like they did with Frankenstein. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He’s busy down there eating everything that falls inside, running around like a chicken with its head cut off, the head on the floor, munching food of its own. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“No. You’re strong, Lanesha. Who got us ready for the storm? Who fixed this chicken? Who looked after me when I remained in bed? Who tried to reach 911? Who tried to help?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Without taking my eyes off her, I told the crowd, “I know these chickens are a big responsibility. That’s why I need you all to help me. Will you help me keep them safe?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t heard tell of anything missing in town since last spring. Not a single chicken, all this time. I suppose you’ve been preaching right.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“For the sisters. I used to clean and look after the chickens and the goats.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I hope Ms. Griegson’s rooster didn’t get you, or your own chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I know that. Ostriches, chickens, eagles, the list goes on.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"We could make a fire and roast them like chickens." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And I thought my mind was muddy as a chicken,” she muttered. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When the food was ready, Arya ate a chicken leg and a bit of onion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I found her in the henhouse, talking to the chickens. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here there were dead office towers, brought to life at night by restaurants buried within that served small kegs of beer and Korean fried chicken. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They brought us chicken, but it tasted strange, probably from the hormones injected to make the birds fatter. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

You don’t want to take this class and are certainly not eligible to purchase chickens from Redwood Farm Supply. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

And of a man who sold chickens in a market and was kind to outsiders. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness I had a chicken in the icebox.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Muff taught her to fry chicken legs and turn the small bits of dark meat into chicken and dumplings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he was going in he said: “It was thoughtful of you to bring your knife along with the milk pail. But then, how else could you have cleaned the chicken?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pastor Patton and his wife from New Hope Church brought a pot of chicken and dumplings. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On and off and on and off until he was laughing at the magic of the running water and the chicken and bread that lay balmy in his stomach. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All sorts of crops grew here: corn, but also fruits and other vegetables, as well as oats, hay, and alfalfa to feed the pigs, cattle, chickens, and horses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And it seems that some Chinese chickens will soon come home to roost, with China’s recent successful nuclear tests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Bertha telling me to be careful and don’t stick my fingers through the chicken wire and stuff like that. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

If you experience freezing temperatures in winter, check your chickens’ water more frequently, breaking up ice or refilling with warm water as needed. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Which seemed like an awfully slow and noisy escape for a chicken thief. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

That week, a man put chicken wire around his garden, five feet high, complete with a little gate and padlock. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, and tell her about how he used to steal chicken livers right out of the frying pan.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ms. Griegson watched the chicken scratch around for a few minutes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The refugee officials theft divide and ration us salt, water, rice, fish, and sometimes chicken. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at least now it smelled fresh, and the chickens clucked with what she hoped was appreciation when she let them back into that side of the yard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Using her magnifying glass, she peered at their wings and discovered a series of scales overlapping in regular patterns, “like the feathers of multicolored chickens.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The maroon demon made an acrobatic leap and caught the chicken by both legs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ‘bout ten acres. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was barbecued pork, roast pork with an oyster sauce, and cold boiled chicken. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he saw the adversary stealing the fruits of his master’s fields and paddocks, carrying off chickens and leading goats by ropes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Hawkers were at every comer, with glass-enclosed cases of akara and suya and browned chicken drumsticks, with trays of peeled oranges, with coolers the size of bathtubs full of Walls banana ice cream. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of the chicken stew was heartbreaking. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody was boiling chicken soup right around there all day.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He warmed it for a moment in the palm of his hand, then rolled it gently in the direction of the chickens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment, there was only the sound of the two of them breathing, the chickens worrying their feathers, clucking nervously. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Wilson had grown up eating his mother’s fried chicken, pork chops, and macaroni and cheese. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mother made mushroom omelet, and they had steak with mushrooms and chicken with mushrooms. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I open the door, and Lubek grins, pushes a pecking chicken away from his feet, and goes straight to the pot to make himself a cup of tea. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The makeshift table was soon overflowing with food—oatmeal cookies, cheese grits, hot biscuits and honey, a sweet potato pie, Apple Brown Betty, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, corn pudding, pulled pork, and pickled pigs’ feet. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He added a tan- door outside for making bread and a chicken coop with a fence around it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon, I shall eat one pound of chicken wings.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Abuela bakes four chickens and boils a big pot of white rice. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He described the enchantments of chicken, pork, and beef in China, Hong Kong, Germany, England, and the former Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A cow might be sick or a fox might be in the chicken coop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nelson raked a pan of cold ashes out of the stove, and together we strewed them all around the hard-pan-dirt yard outside the chicken house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koss went out the postern gate and brought the goose back, and two chickens as well, and Yoren allowed a cookfire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

While she prepares the chickens, my stomach growls and my mouth waters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hu can write for me and he can read your letters to me. You can tell me all about your grandmother and how you feed the chickens and how happy you are.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grit: As chickens do not have teeth, they eat sand and small stones to fill their gizzards. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Stella Armijo boarded up the shed door, caught and reimprisoned the goat, strung two barbed wire strands above the chicken wire, and released the goat again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You three and Dumbledore are the only ones around here who know I’m an Animagus,” said Sirius, shrugging, and continuing to devour the chicken leg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As if I like to keep chickens for pets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bernabe carried the ash drawer from his kitchen stove out to the chicken pen and dumped the ashes over the fence so the chickens could fluff it into their feathers and kill mites. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No monster with a chicken head hung in the branch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We missed our chickens, and cows, our dog, and endless pecans. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On the day Zuraiq was weaned, we begged Father to promise he would not sell him or kill him on a Friday like a chicken, or for sacrifice meat on the Eid holiday. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

If we are lucky, it might be ginger chicken, spicy hot, fire on the tongue. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It all tasted like chicken, mashed potatoes, and peas, if chicken, mashed potatoes, and peas were made of plastic, and were melted. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What else? Chicken. Real gamey chicken. If that’s the case, we don’t need to fix the fence; just set up a trap,” Uncle Jet said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Very soon the thorned fence they were building would enclose the area completely; she supposed they would create some kind of gate, and then they would shove their chickens and their tykes inside. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have it on good authority that it tastes like chicken, but as I’ve never had chicken before, I can’t really say how true that is.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He led me around the side of the house and there, strutting across that little patch of grass, was a chicken. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When he got over the shock, Palmer joined her, the two of them flinging the ball at each other and cackling like a pair of chickens. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

For example, when the rabbits all over England died of the introduced rabbit disease, myxomatosis, the foxes didn’t have much left to eat, so they began killing the farmers’ chickens. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They waited for him in a group, and when he entered the chicken coop they blocked his path, surrounded him, and pecked him half to death before he knew what had happened. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we passed a chicken stand on our way home, she stopped. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

All he’d been able to get from Harvey was one of the cans of chicken soup and a badly dented can of string beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen had left dinner on the stove top, her famous smothered chicken. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

PPS Did you know that chickens look really funny when they run? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It smells more like chicken noodle soup to me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m glad you had a list of what chickens should and shouldn’t eat too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We have to keep the doors shut so the chickens won’t roost. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As if she can read my mind, Zohra translates the joke for me, which is something about catching a chicken. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In truth, I don’t know what’s in her chicken, but I love it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She spends a lot of time trying to help me find useful chicken books. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When the heat made her faint, she awoke with her head smeared into a rafter, her neck feeling like a chicken’s after Alice the cook tried to wring it for supper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Not even when she brought me a bowl of chicken soup and ordered me to open my mouth. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yell excitedly, staring at the juicy shreds of meat still clinging to the chicken bones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He processes the chickens himself, and doesn’t have to pay someone else. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I asked Salatin why the chickens had been let loose in the pasture instead of fed in a chicken coop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I collected three eggs in the chicken house and returned for breakfast. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s going be one less chicken after supper.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But there we were, spending a lazy Saturday afternoon with our father, eating chicken I didn’t have to cut, clean, and fry. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

For Pedro, The little brother, It’s the chicken mole, First on his plate But soon on his shirt. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you must know, Mrs. Trotter, how it pains me to say No to this exquisite chicken, but my son is coming over about three.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Wooden poles, metal spikes, large pieces of mesh—like what covers a chicken coop—rolls of barbed wire, saws, knives, swords. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He looked sort of nervous when he saw me, so I told him my chickens were fine now. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I apologize for not being one, and she rushes into the kitchen, coming back with a family-sized container of her homemade chicken stew, which I accept with heartfelt gratitude: dinner. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole top of his head looked like a huge chicken had laid a egg there and flewed off. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Carpenter," the man to my left said, “how come chicken again?" The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I could tell he had forgotten about me, but he nodded and said, “Come with me, I’ll show you the chicken shed.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agents tackled Stombaugh, pinning his arms behind his back in a painful "chicken wing" position often used by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One package of chicken thighs and one package of wings. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken nugget had not yet been invented. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now and then he tossed away a chicken bone, which turned to an owl and flew hooting among the netted star-lights. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I like the grilled chicken salad, but that’s because I eat like a bird.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“If Frightful doesn’t come by then, I’ll have to be a chicken monster again.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Alfred began to feel cramps in his stomach at the mingled smells of cotton candy, barbecue, fried chicken, and hot dogs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the smoke cleared, we saw the chickens still coming toward us, unhurt and seemingly unsurprised by the blast, a little cloud of feathers wafting around them like fat snowflakes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Though, on the one hand, he was taken by surprise, on the other he knew, had known, with an ancient instinct, that one day History’s twisted chickens would come home to roost. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They use only a little grease, and after the chicken pieces brown, they put water in the pan and let it steam.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He lived with them for three months, finally running away when the farmer woke him with a beating one morning because a raccoon got into the chicken coop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The little boy had a far worse case of chicken pox than he or Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A woman who traded across enemy lines brought a chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is why the typical chicken yard quickly winds up bare and hard as brick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He lifted his plate from the table and slammed it down, scattering rice and capers and peppers and chicken across the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His mom was putting chicken into tortillas, which his dad then rolled up and placed in a glass pan. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

So Pancho locked the goat in the shed next door to the henhouse, which was also surrounded by the chicken pen’s wire fence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give these to your grandma,” he said while we gathered up all the buckets of chicken. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Stuffed in another pocket were some biscuits, to wad up into dough balls to bait the hooks with, and five pieces of Queenie’s fried chicken in case I got hungry. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A moment later, we heard the engine of the police car scream to life and tires skidding in the dirt, scaring our chickens into a bunch of squawking. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So much depends on a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water standing beside the white chickens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the shed there came the indignant shrieking of an outraged chicken and then a dull thump. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Chicken nuggets for breakfast is strange enough, but is this chicken or just plastic?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the flickering light, a chicken coop tumbled past, all the birds already gone, every one of them lost to the gray roar. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ate some more ribs, some fried chicken, and a mess of potato salad. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d toss it away and grab another one while the headless chicken would fluff and flap around, give a few heavy shakes, and die. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the experience of feeling death without dying that came from watching a chicken leap about blindly after its neck had been snapped by a quick twist of my father’s wrist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other two were driven by harpies, who are basically demonic human/chicken hybrids with bad attitudes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The chicken had stopped squawking; perhaps it had decided to accept the inevitable. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His lips smiled at me from around the chicken bone in his mouth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I explained that they were for the black streak chicken, but they just ignored me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Stella had shut the chickens inside their coop the night before. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was familiar with the sound of chickens. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chickens clucked in their enclosure, pressing their beaks to the willow walls, keeping them inside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So I dutifully told Gregory my parents had agreed, and he hung up so he could call and let the people who’d found the chicken know I’d be coming for her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The old Clock Watcher shook like a freezing chicken beneath his flapping robe. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My first night as a chicken farmer passed far too quickly. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Daddy just grins and reaches for the chicken. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Then the officer opens the door to the ladder, stepping back and making a noise of disgust at the chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Once the chickens were cut into pieces, they wouldn’t look quite so much like the birds I had helped kill and gut on the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They lived in the same one-roomed hut with their families, few chickens, litter of pigs, or with a cow possibly called Crumbocke—most dreadful and insanitary! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken was trying hard to get away again. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hugh dug something from his pocket and held it up: a peculiar chicken egg. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once the chickens settled, the night birds got to talking. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

After horses were cattle, chickens, and then corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The media, it turned out, was far more interested in a bit of HeLa- related news that was almost as sensational as Alexis Carrel’s immortal chicken heart. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Plus, the coat had protected me from the chickens’ pecking. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When I finished my first plate of cold chicken and caviar, I laid out another. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a pretty full train and I kind of forgot about it when I saw goats being handed up to the roof and people coming on with their chickens. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chickens had laid blue eggs, but they also laid pink and green and brown eggs, too, like every day was Easter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the nearby open-air market, she bargained for fish, chicken, rice, vegetables, and salt. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And Pastor Patton’s salary came from the collection basket, which usually only gathered a few coins each Sunday, supplemented by the goodness of others who occasionally brought him fresh chickens or eggs or bread. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You know that chicken I told you about? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Now she spoke to the chickens, expecting them to understand her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You played yourself by only getting fries. You know you want some of this,” I say with a mouthful of chicken. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She took the chicken casserole from the oven, placed it on the table, and reached into the drawer for a serving spoon and told us to help ourselves. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a chicken that can turn stone things back to life, and Agnes didn’t say it wears off. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He winds up his arm and throws the crab well beyond the reach of chicken on string. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They walked up the road with them, reaching over to pet the chicken as they went. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth began to water as she picked a plump chicken from the stacked crates. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I asked Mr. Ray as we laid the chicken out on platters. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His ears seemed suddenly clear, so that he heard the chickens cackling and the east wind blowing over the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

PPS What am I supposed to do with this chicken now? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

You return to find your houses combed spotless of spoiled crumbs, your bedding free of lice, your woodlots cleansed of night soil, your hen coops rid of chicken mites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rattle of bracelets that always accompanied her distracted him from his studies, and he had to make an enormous effort not to follow her around the house like a hypnotized chicken. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me make the rice, and you get the chicken from the staff club.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rita made a face and hid the little bag of chicken droppings inside her dress. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now I had a chicken and a flour sack hanging under each arm, hidden beneath the coat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve put in the incipient wrinkles, the little chicken feet at the corners of the lids. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The invisible chicken stayed visible for the rest of the afternoon. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I cut me a pole and was soon perched on a stump, fishing and eating fried chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They sat down to eat right away—cold chicken, thick slices of ham and cheese, potato salad, macaroni salad, bread, plenty of lemonade, a seven-layer cake. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would have been a kiddush after the service, with challah rolls, potatoes, chicken—my stomach growled just thinking about it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I be hungry I get some chicken ones. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only is there stew, but also curried chicken, lentils, rice with vegetables, naan, salad, and yogurt sauce. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the chickens were up in the rafters of the barn, screeching at the scene on the floor below. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

For the first time that night, I thought of our poor chickens shut up for the night in their coop. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re having chicken and dumplings,” Mama beamed, “and I cooked them especially for you.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saucepan reaches over and gives a rubber chicken a few squeaks. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

As for her diet, she had vowed to stick to chicken, turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, and low-fat cottage cheese. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Horse-drawn wagons clattered up and down the cobblestone street, bringing in more fresh vegetables, squawking chickens, and squealing pigs. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But don’t worry, I’ll find a way to earn some money for more feed, so Henrietta and the other chicken can be safe. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s cool,” she said, pinching the skin off a piece of chicken. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Preacher Ken shows them the chicken house, egg sorters, milking machines, grain silos, and communal kitchen. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I unpacked a transparent plastic tube of powdered cream of chicken soup, and filled it up with water. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his name is uncool—Pasqual is the name of an old Mexican man who sits on a dusty porch muttering about his lost chickens. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was testing the chicken of a new vendor; so far it tasted the same and cost ten percent less. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tidings stopped sinking his teeth into a chicken leg. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When was the last time we ate chicken?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I feel no sense of my own mystery eating a can of chicken soup late at night, or lying in the fluorescent light of the school nurse’s office. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The sun had been up for about an hour, and we’d already gathered the eggs, fed the chickens, had breakfast, and been waiting at the bus stop for over ten minutes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I swallowed the two pills one at a time, the taste of chicken broth still on my tongue. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to pretend for a little while that I could have a chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Finley sat on his porch sucking chicken bones, as he had done for thirteen years, looked up, saw Sula, choked on a bone and died on the spot. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I left the chicken over the fire too long because Madam ordered the silver polished and the table linens ironed in honor of her guests. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some fat, chicken or pork, to brace the soup one more time? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was a hint of chicken in there somewhere, but not much. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The result had been a week of mucking out the chicken coop. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And for as long as I can remember, when she thought no one was looking, she played chicken with the stove, seeing how long she could keep her hand over the flame. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Tell Scout I came down with a sudden case of the chicken pox. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes the first eight chickens had bled out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The section was surrounded by a metal fence topped with a band of electrified chicken wire which during the cool summer mornings would be black with roasted swallows. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The poultry plant bus came each day to pick up adults and take them to the factory where they would daily pluck, hack, and process thousands of chickens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I read about chickens until it was time for Dad to come pick me up. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid if you want to try one of our chickens,” he said, “you’re going to have to drive down here to Swoope to pick it up.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He swallowed another gulp of wine and watched his direwolf devour the chicken. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The spacecraft sat on the moon for hours and Vonetta and Fern wanted to go outside and run around with the chickens before the sun went down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The chicken manure fertilizes the grass, supplying all the nitrogen it needs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I drew detailed pictures of food—steaming chicken with crispy, glazed skin, bowls of plums, apple cakes with crumbling crusts. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You strike me as the kind of girl who’s one day going to be eating roast chicken and those on-fire desserts just as much as you want.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gregory’s going to come over later and take me for a tour, since he had a key to take care of your chickens and knows them pretty well. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Naomi set a plate of cold fried chicken and potato salad on the floor. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was pretty boring hanging around the tavern day after day, making fires and chopping wood and cleaning up and looking after the chickens and Old Pru and the pigs. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the pale chicken skin reminded Mr. Richard of his own skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I thought the chicken might be nervous too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We went to the food court and she ordered cheese fries, chicken nuggets and a salad. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mama sold our pigs, leaving the chickens as our only animals. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

With the rooster leading, the chickens flapped awkwardly through the air and disappeared over the brow of a hill. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

People might say chickens couldn’t worry, but something sensitive in their bodies must know. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no point chasing it, no matter how worried I was about hawk-chickens and people who know a lot about chickens trying to catch it. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murphy nursing me with chicken soup filled with carrots and celery and potatoes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Probably whoever Gregory could find to take it wouldn’t have special chickens, and I bet regular chickens weren’t going to like living with this one, if it was anything like Henrietta. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

A week before the party, they prepared the banquet: half a steer roasted in the courtyard, kidney pie, chicken casserole, various com dishes, eggfruit, and the best harvest wines. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those “unnatural” feeds make chickens with mushier and blander meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was about five feet away from me, on the far side of the chicken house, and she had no idea I was there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape was a tableau of farm fields, barns, horses, cows, chickens, and the occasional house. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She said she was feeding me this because I had the chicken pox and one chicken knew how to fight another. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was stuck in a stranger’s barn with seven loose chickens that no one knew were mine, and a hawk-chicken outside. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She wants the fattest chicken they can find, a sack of rice, two onions, six brown eggs, and a refill of lard. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a “chicken switch” in the testing chamber for the candidates to flip if they wanted to come out early; a couple of the women took advantage of it. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once the fire broke through the circle of engines, it pushed out fists of flame that ate up clapboard siding, shingled roofs, fences, trees, outhouses, and chicken coops. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I can not work hard any more, señora. I can milk a cow, feed chickens, cut a little wood; no more. I will stay here.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was never in my life so happy to see a chicken. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He mistook it, instead, for a chicken coop. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I am feeding the clucking chickens and singing a chicken song and plotting my journey to the Angels, Los Angeles. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Boys who hung about and eavesdropped on the men’s conversations would be called upon to perform certain tasks—slaughter chickens behind the cooking huts, chop firewood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, having nothing to do, I collected my two eggs, my half chicken, and my knife and walked slowly down the road to the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A third cousin of Papa’s, Hopewell Stump, from out in Banks County, clerked and took care of the chickens that folks brought to trade out for nails, flour, sugar, coal oil, coffee, and chewing tobacco. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When Jus steps inside and the fragrance of chicken cacciatore assaults his senses, he’s one hundred percent sure he doesn’t wanna be here. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The only thing that kills chickens is Mr. Riley’s three-legged dog.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new pigsty was building far from the house and downwind, with chicken and duck runs near and a kennel for the dogs to keep the coyotes away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were three hundred or so chickens floating in the big steel tank of ice water. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was like the old-fashioned game of chicken. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Are there a lot of chickens in the jungle?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

By the time she’s done telling us about all the pets she brought with her—three dogs, five cats, two chickens, and a hamster—lunch is over. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I decided on soup—chicken soup; that is what my mother usually gave us when we were sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bulky thing had a tanned chicken—feathers, head, comb, and all—for a head. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After breakfast she packed a basket: chicken, peach pickles, fresh tomatoes, butterbeans in a jar, the leftover biscuits, and half a pecan pie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

To counteract any evil result of that bad conjunction he walked quickly past the ranch house, through the chicken yard, through the vegetable patch, until he came at last to the brush line. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her laugh was loud, like our chickens squawking over the last bits of corn. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When Angel got chicken pox, Tiger seemed to be pleased to have Angel home from school each day. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooking a steak or a chicken is a lot easier. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After swearing Abdulrahman to secrecy, Ahmad brought him up to the roof and showed him a cage he had built from scrap wood and chicken wire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The tape started with me going down the street around from the fried chicken joint and then along the stoops. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He parked by the chicken coop and got out, unfolding his height like a sheet. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He removed the chickens to the shade of a tree nearby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t mention chickens,” said the bard with a sour grimace. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

That was how Naomi and the twins started feeding Muff’s chickens and gathering eggs from her coop. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“See? You know I'm right. Your poor father probably spent the morning chasing chickens and apologizing to neighbors.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sarah's chickens were not afraid, and they settled like small red bundles in the hay. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then he marched south with a group of replacements, and he enjoyed that too—seeing the country and stealing chickens and chasing rebel girls up into the haystacks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the floor is clean, I let Helena and Dziusia each take a chicken and go play their new favorite game in the back bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The last weekend in every month Maman is permitted to kill a specially authorized chicken so she can produce Sunday dinner for half a dozen Gestapo officers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“We’ll count that as part of the bargain, for you are a bold chicken, we must admit.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

After that, I practiced every day while I was feeding the chickens. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Joe Mondragon felt really nervous, he charged into his chicken shed and started madly catching the English sparrows that fed on the hen scratch Joe kept in a long aluminum hopper in there. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a good meal, a roast chicken, new green beans, mashed potatoes, a salad, and some apple-pie and cheese. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Never got caught—until the chickens, and that was just foolish to begin with. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rae returns with drinks, hands a grilled chicken salad to Rufus, and places sweet potato fries and French toast in front of me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jinny would take Ess up the dunes and into the lush green center of the island, full of fruit trees, berry bushes, chickens, and the stream. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mack went out and he teetered down the chicken walk and across the track. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last month Celia said it got a whole pen of chickens,” Matt said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That thing was trying to kill me. And before 1 stopped it it was going to eat one of my chickens.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would play with our chickens and young calves, with a piece of paper or a corncob. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just heated the grill up. Gonna throw some burgers and chicken on for lunch.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Any given block might steam with the scent of chicken and rice or sausage and fries or a simmering vat of chowder. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, the shopkeeper’s wife serves us homegrown vegetables, fried chicken and bread, and hot sweet tea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The judge, after the fury of losing the chicken subsided, comforted himself with his roomful of golden eggs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She like one a them baby chickens that get confused and follow the ducks around instead. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After eating nothing but sandwiches and granola bars for two days, Ivy’s mouth watered just thinking about Mr. Bishop’s spinach-and-cheese omelets and homemade chicken carbonara pasta. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Richardson sawed off a bite of chicken. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To prove it, he’s had his chickens tested by an independent lab. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bloom was purple and panting loudly; the pig puffed a little; chicken feathers were scattered across the lawn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who could afford it ate bread and biscuits made with white flour and made mash for the chickens with the brown. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I got out onto the porch early that morning, I heard Mama at the chicken coop talking with one of her customers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He cut off a big chunk of chicken and opened a can from the store-box, some kind of meat. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another pen held sheep, and there were chicken coops and turkey cages as well. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She cast bubbles around Fyrian, and bubbles around the goats and bubbles around each chicken and a very large bubble around the house, lest she accidentally allow their home to burst into flames. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He ate his chicken breast and started on the thigh, looking at me now and then in his hard way. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like decorating my windowsill with flowers every day for a week when I was contagious with the chicken pox. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other than the daily danger of being found by Ernst the SS man, this is probably the most interesting thing that’s happened since two of the chickens got chased by a dog. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Roasted chicken, cauliflower with cheese sauce, pickled cucumbers, and freshly baked blueberry muffins.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Now holding the chicken in one hand, the sneering goblin rushed to meet him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Ugwu stood trembling in the middle of the room, still holding the chicken pieces with his hand outstretched. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Baby baby chicken,” Ugwu murmured, in the singsong way that always amused her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was so strong, he needed no knife to behead chickens or rabbits. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, minks stole into the henhouse and slaughtered dozens of chickens, leaving their bloody corpses piled up in the corners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“That preacher’s going to eat all the chicken!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a second thought, I said what I honestly felt—that it was, as I saw it, a case of ‘ ‘the chickens coming home to roost. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems we need a phone number for Sue of Briar Farm, please. We found a little white chicken she lost.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know there were chickens that turned into hawks. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

And then Art had me—eager, enthusiastic, willing to help but with energy more like a chicken with its head cut off. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And eventually it would mean the end of chickens, cattle, and many of the other domesticated species that at this point depend on us for their continued existence— depend, that is, on us eating them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem strange to me at the time, what with everything going on, but the chickens knew where they were going. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“No chicken breasts today. I got drumsticks. They were cheaper.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Charlie sat in his favorite chair—his only chair—a chicken on his lap, waiting for the knock on the door. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And just like Phoebe, who had waved her mothers sweater in front of her father, I had brought a chicken in from the coop: “Would Mom leave her favorite chicken?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The sauce has evaporated and the chicken is irreparably scorched, so much so that the pan itself has to be thrown away. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a bar in the back, and some kind of hip-hop music playing, and waiters turning sideways to squeeze through the crowd with pints of beer and baskets of chicken wings. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and said, “Agnes, I’m really sorry about your chickens.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Among Meme’s friends there were three young American girls who broke through the electrified chicken fence barrier and made friends with girls from Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

My dad is home early from teaching, and I can already smell roast chicken in the oven when I walk in. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“You better get to the chickens and the wood now.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had the liquor, the chicken, the music, and each other, and had no need to pretend to be what we were not. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

We went that way through all the old childhood diseases except for chicken pox. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house, the dog, the pecan tree, the henhouse, and the chicken run had all sprung up or spread outward. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If Mama wanted a chicken caught, she would call Little Ann. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire spat when chicken fat dripped into it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what about the chickens, the eggs, the milk, the garden? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I explained to Willie that the corn had grown in a deep bed of composted chicken manure. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“They will return in the evening. They said you should rest, Mama, when you come. I am cooking rice and chicken.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the coffee farms, chickens were always busy hiding their young from hawks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Together they hunted chicken eggs in the low branches of the trees and the tall grasses of the prairie, but when they came to the beehives, everyone but Jinny and Joon hung back. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You’re more chicken than all those chickens in the yard—waving and smiling at those girls who are laughing at you. What do you think they call you? Certainly not Vonetta.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

This is what Nelson tried to explain to me once, while we scraped manure from the chicken coop. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All sorts of animals, from German shepherds to chickens, have become the stable companions of racehorses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cared for the goats and cared for the chickens and cared for her grandmother and her dragon and her swamp monster. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The vacation was over and the Truebas returned to the city laden with jars of candy, preserves, boxes of fruit, cheese, pickled chicken and rabbit, and baskets full of eggs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a bad sandwich. No chicken or avocado or anything.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You been fooling with the raw chicken again?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I slide down the wall and sit on the floor, and a chicken comes and stands on my lap. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I look around at the fast-food options and walk ahead of him to a chicken spot. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She looked like a younger version of Mom after a twelve-hour shift in the chicken factory, or Dad after a long day of baling hay. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fabian continues to suck on the chicken bone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Great-great-aunt Florentine fried chicken in the deep cast-iron skillet and made sweet iced tea. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched it being turned into meat, milk, and eggs by cows and chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, the chicken pox is not the problem. See, she can’t go to school, so Jordan stays with her and he, and he...” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The She Elephant grunted and swept aside a heap of chicken heads to make room for him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bought a buffalo chicken sub at Wilkes Deli and sat by myself on a grassy hill overlooking the football field. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother had fried pieces of chicken in a thin cornbread batter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw fudge and chicken wings and hot biscuits. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And long-legged Joon ran off on an emergency fetch, to get replacement eggs from the chickens. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As he got closer, all the small scrapes became apparent too—he looked like someone with chicken pox, almost. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We can live through next winter on what is in the store, and so can the cows and the chickens. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Eric served us chicken in a thick dark sauce, I thrust my fork through layers of gravy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When I got to Henry’s, I was glad to see that Charles and Francis were still picking at a cold chicken and some salad. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Carl worked there seventy-six hours a week, selling goods to local farmers for their chickens, cattle, and hogs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Being trapped in a tiny cage with six other birds goes against every natural instinct of a chicken. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Chickens are really funny, and I like your chicken a whole lot, now that I’m used to her, but they aren’t very huggable. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It is used up to make bones or feathers or fur, or just to keep the steer or chicken alive. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But left in one place, the chickens would eventually destroy the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That and the ammonia smell from the chicken waste was so strong you could hardly breathe. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The basket contained victuals: bread, half a chicken, water, and a bottle of beer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

While the cameras were focused on Haley’s smile, Mrs. Daley wrapped up a couple of chicken kebabs in a napkin and slipped them inside her purse. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“They have been taking the light too often the past week. I say we eat the whole chicken today,” Obiora said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, where would the new chickens get larvae for their protein? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A steady stream of customers dropped by to pick up their chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He finished all the chicken and then all the ice cream. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother sometimes made chicken, but it was always out of packets or frozen, and was very dry, and it never tasted of anything. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Rebecca slapped herself so hard—chicken nipple—that she’s lying passed out on her kitchen floor.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as large as a chicken’s egg. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She blinked in the dim light like a startled chicken. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he thought that a drowned chicken was fair game. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You sure you don’t want part of this chicken?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the guard what they were, and he said, "Them's pigs 'n' chickens." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was friendly but practical, and she had lots of cheap things to suggest, like baths with Epsom salts and even feeding the chicken some olive oil. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

And on down the line it went again, now calming the rumble the lack of chicken breasts caused. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Did you tell my chickens to wait outside the house?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If I want chicken curry for dinner, I simply say to the cooks: Chicken curry! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lets her chickens just run here, there, and everywhere, so they escaped their fateful death by flapping up into the treetops. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t judge very much from his productions in different colored chicken feathers and nutshells. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit. putting down my basket, strawberries again, chicken again, and I note the swear word: something new. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Reed jogged across the Current of Faith, avoiding coils of rope and redheaded chickens that squawked underfoot. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When Gay reheated some chicken from the night before, I said, “We never have to eat leftovers at The Children’s Home.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Down the road, past the looming cedar trees that looked as if they might once have circled a cemetery, the chicken did a mixed fly-flap-and-skid routine. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s a hint: What did the cows and pigs and chickens eat before they became cuts of meat? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The smell of fried chicken began to waft from the back seats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her mother cooked the chicken’s body with tarragon leaves that had traveled in a plastic bag all the way from St. Louis. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight streamed through steel chicken wire on the fourth side. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She collected prayer cards and missals engraved with gold initials and filled glass jars with holy water, which she later used to baptize Ilda Limon’s chickens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he worked in a poultry market, and after wringing the necks of chickens all day, he came home and drank until he slept. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The chickens rushed at the pieces of bread Sisi threw to them, disorderly and enthusiastic. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark and full of chicken manure, but it wasn’t bad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People would run away from me with their—chicken nipple—babies.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The waitress came and Jan ordered three beers and three portions of fried chicken. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They went on serving chicken, trying to keep operating for as long as they could, figuring and figuring as they went. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discarded pieces of zinc, chicken wire, cardboard, torn sheets that Mami had given us, and dried palm fronds formed the walls of our very own barrio under the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Anyway, fellowship at Christ Temple really means snack time, and snack time really means fried or baked chicken, potato salad, green beans, pound cake, and soda. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The minder sticks his chicken neck out, staring at us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Obiora, please kill this chicken and put it in the freezer before it loses weight, since there’s nothing to feed it,” Aunty Ifeoma said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t drop or forget anything, you with the brains of a chicken. And don’t dawdle.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I knocked on her door and asked if I could walk over and pick the chickens up myself, since it was only a mile away. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the morning she was there as well, feeding me rice porridge flavored with chicken broth she had strained herself. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None whatever, my chicken,” she said, and for the first time there was a hint of pity in her voice. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We have our bungalow, and a coop for the chickens, the flower and vegetable gardens, and the cottages where Kazi and the groundskeeper, Mahit, live. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They aren’t really chicken people yet, so maybe they didn’t notice? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Holding its head in my right hand, I drew the knife down the left side of the chicken’s neck. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was lined with vials of fluid and packets with different color powders, and standing in the center watching over it all was one mean-looking chicken. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was the queerest thing, but Marly actually got so excited about the goats and chickens that she forgot about telling Joe what she had come to tell. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The soup was a masterwork, a delicate mingling of chicken, watercress, and garlic. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The other ingredients weren’t so easy to come by: George visited local slaughterhouses at least once a week to collect cow fetuses and chicken blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The chickens squawked noisily and Tree-ear dropped what he was holding. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was all very well to eat pretend cake and chicken, but her real stomach felt like the two sides were stuck together. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would be in plenty of time for winter feed for the cows and chickens; and I could cut some off and can it, and also grind cornmeal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was so pleased to ’ear you would be coming — zere isn’t much to do ’ere, unless you like cooking and chickens! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“A fried chicken joke was only game talk? Really?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I say other—chicken nipple—things. I’m glad when it’s just chicken nipple. Chicken nipple. Sometimes I say ‘barbecue’ or ‘pirate ship’ or ‘I love bubble baths’ and some—chicken nipple—other things. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The post office wasn’t much bigger than Miss Maggie’s chicken coop but smelled far better, despite Mr. Johnson’s cigar. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The chickens lay in a mournful row with their legs tied together. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said fasting messed up his carefully balanced diet of simply grilled chicken breasts and staring at his abs in the mirror. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We see a zombie in the corner eating a guard’s decapitated head like it’s roasted chicken. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This morning the landlady, Mrs. Mooney, came up with a bowl of hot chicken soup and some chicken. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Would Master send him home because he did not speak English well, kept chicken in his pocket overnight, did not know the strange places Master named? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I love getting noodles with peanut sauce and shrimp and spicy chicken skewers. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Chicken nipple. I do, in case you—chicken nipple—didn’t notice.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Not to brag, but my chicken spaghetti casserole is something to behold.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"I shall be happy to share it, Rose. American chickens take a long time to cook, but they certainly have a good taste when they are done." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They returned with arms laden, and Dicey turned the potatoes, rinsed in rain drops, over and then arranged the chicken wings near to the edge of the fire so they wouldn’t scorch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly cut die neck with his hatchet cut the feet off the same way, and in his hand he held something like a small chicken with a dark, fat, thick breast and small legs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Park gave us some delicious spicy soy garlic chicken bites to start with, and I ordered the kimbap. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

My father bought a small white chicken, my mother brewed beer, a few relatives were invited, and a small celebration was held to mark George’s passage from infancy to childhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregory ate another piece of chicken, a wing, bones and all. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Especially when the next guy ordered fifty pieces of chicken and got every piece. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As the last note of God Save the King died away she relaxed again, and attacked her chicken in a sort of frenzy, chattering over her shoulder to her partner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You poor lost chicken, why didn’t you say so in the first place? Tell me, how is dear little Dallben?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t like how my tongue starts longing for chicken and gravy the way she used to cook it in the old days. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, Minny’s house be like a chicken coop on fire. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ma was assaulted trying to get Geak a bit of chicken meat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s where a group of portable chicken pens sat on the grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, we would have a new roast chicken for dinner. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

First of all, the little chicken house wasn’t where I left it last night. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He laughed and then he shouted, “Go it, Granny! I’ll bet on the chickens but go it anyway, Granny! Ha! Ha! Ha!” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its frame was covered by chicken wire and it had no roof. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Crushed acorns? My belly hurts, but that will only make it worse. Leave me be, sister. I’m dreaming of roast chicken.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He saw the quail come down to eat with the chickens when he threw out the grain. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka piled almost everything on her dish—jollof rice, fufu and two different soups, fried chicken and beef, salad and cream—like someone who would not have an opportunity to eat again soon. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo and Rosa bathed Grandmother and fed her chicken broth and thin porridge. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t trust my voice not to shake, so I put my hand on top of the wire cage with my chickens in it and I shook my head. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I thought he agreed they were my chickens, not Ms. Griegson’s. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I went back down the steps and walked across their flat dirt yard, past several outbuildings and the huge grain silos, to the first of four long chicken houses. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

"I reverse the order. For Bryan's sake. As a tribute to the Great Commoner. First the chicken; then the egg." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not sophisticated or romantic. Your trouble is that you think America is just feeding your grandmother’s chickens. There’s a lot more to America than that.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got a little win’mill. Got a little shack on it, an’ a chicken run. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her that they taste like chicken, and she believed me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Although, to be honest about it, I think it had been happening all along with other dogs, horses, and even chickens.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So I excuse myself and go outside and over to the chicken coop. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, when Dad was a kid, he went through a phase where he ate only chicken nuggets. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But he grew ill at the sight of blood, and wept to see even a chicken slaughtered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You made a fried chicken comment to the only black girl in the room. What do you think?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Like in Charlotte's Web. These are some chickens,” she said, expecting Big Ma to have read Charlotte's Web and to get her meaning. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I landed knee and elbow first in the pile of chicken wire. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rose fluttered to a stand, twirled drunkenly around, and staggered to the chicken coop doorway. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The chicken yard was noticeably subdued the rest of that day. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken book I read said that if you want to get your chickens back in the henhouse at night, you can throw some treats inside and train them to go after them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Joel insists on slaughtering chickens on the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Please send in this quiz for a full refund for any chickens or chicken supplies you may have ordered; your lessons are at an end. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Using gestures, I bought a whole roasted chicken and something like thick potato chips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feed: Like all animals, chickens have complex dietary requirements that must be met if they are to remain healthy and lay well. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my mother went in the barn and filled the pail with chicken feed, but before she reached the chicken coop, she set the pail down and moved off in another direction. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Sweet Petyr, surely you do not mean to suggest that these puissant lords and noble knights could be bought like so many chickens in the market." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ma was still crying with happiness, the goats bleated, chickens crowed and clucked, and neighbors began gathering to share the joy. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

His crows, his black vultures, had set fire to the homemade chicken run and the one-room cottage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It began by attacking small creatures—chickens and cats mostly. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even as they joke and eat, I’m quiet and try to enjoy this fried chicken and waffles. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As Nelson knew it would be, it was there inside the chicken house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was because the chickens had spent their lives outdoors on pastures rather than in a shed eating grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Patty said, looking longingly at her sesame chicken. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

This was a little more challenging because I had to dig down to bury the bottom of the chicken wire to keep out hungry diggers like skunks and such. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Forests mean that coyotes and weasels have plenty of chipmunks and voles to eat, so they don’t hunt chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Agribusiness has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The first time Pong nearly drowned, he woke up to a chicken. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Both hang by straps thin as chicken wire. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Each time a new person stepped into the shop, the chickens must worry. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She would make up a beef stew in a Crock-Pot, or she would broil several chickens. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished Campbell’s 1907 Soil Culture Manual and am now reading some of Rooster Jim's poultry journals so I can be ready for my chickens when I get them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For all his bluster in front of the Council, he had never so much as wrung the neck of a chicken for a nice dinner. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then, while Daniel sharpened his knives, I began lifting chickens from the crates. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The chickens never laughed at my jokes,” he said. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was busy, and I figured he was, too, working his butt off on that chicken farm after school—plus we had final exams coming up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We ate all our chickens weeks ago, and shared the last eggs all around. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he was essential if I was going to increase my chicken family from four to many. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

If a neighbor asked, we said the chicken was a gift from our uncle in Harare. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I have tried chicken feathers, water, urine, and ox gall — and still this mark. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I ordered fried chicken and chocolate pudding and pecan pie, and no one said a word about me not selecting a single vegetable. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” Ernie said, nibbling on the knobby part of a chicken leg. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

To make soup we use brown beans, navy beans, potatoes, packages of vegetable soup, packages of chicken soup and packages of bean soup. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The elfin scholar had picked up the half of his chicken pie that remained on the table and was eating it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The, dish we had at my house with the chicken and walnuts and pomegranates. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The minute I had enough money saved to go one way, I’d be out of there.To celebrate my first night in Boston, Ella prepares a large dinner of baked chicken. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Houseboats swarming with old people and young, chickens and pigs. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They was chickens!” the bald guy bellowed after him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to know—why chicken nipple? Why not another word?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knew I hadn’t put the chickens in the henhouse before I left. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

And the other ones will grow up to be fried chicken! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile customers began arriving to pick up their chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the country there were barns and silos stocked with grain and corn, and chicken houses full of eggs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

That, and a good chicken dinner on Sundays. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom’s chicken noodle soup is the perfect antidote.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then the others joined in, all fluffing and rolling around, looking like their bones had melted away, like jellyfish chickens, clouds of dust everywhere, clucking their contentment. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Stella had just cupped her hand around the last egg in the nest, the chicken huffing and fluffing its feathers, when her father came into the coop on Saturday morning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I looked at the chicken wire on the window. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Not regular animals like Miss Bessie or the chickens, but crazy animals with problems— for some reason he liked to put his beasts into impossible fixes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I doubt the professor was much impressed by my observation that, “When you chop a chicken’s head off, you shouldn’t smile because you might get blood and feathers in your mouth.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He's got my invisible hands busy chopping celery and carrots while he cuts up chunks of chicken for a big pot of soup, and he's gushing about his talk with Dr. Van Dom. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time we hit a bump or just missed a squawking chicken we’d laugh like children. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"A chicken burrito and a steak burrito from Burrito Palace," he answers. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“How did you become a chicken in the first place?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The man had Mole pegged for the killer of his chickens. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Just this perfect Now. after g’reenville #1 After the chicken is fried and wrapped in wax paper, tucked gently into cardboard shoe boxes and tied with string . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was still half a honeyed chicken in the center of the table. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Next will come cream of asparagus soup topped with blue cheese crumbles, then sauteed chicken in a mushroom-raisin-wine sauce garnished with curlicues of carrot and sprigs of fresh cilantro. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for waiting, Gregory. Where should we pick the chicken up?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Cordelia says, because there is a wave of corny chicken jokes sweeping the school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a real lass, and it did not taste like chicken. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Agnes seems kind of disorganized to be running a chicken business. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

"Well, I'm sorry you lost your chicken," I blurt out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I peeked inside and saw a fresh tortilla, stuffed with rice and beans and onion and red salsa and green cilantro and grilled chicken. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Hazel stuck his pocket knife into the muscles of the chicken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought the chicken would calm as he carried her—Charlie carried all his chickens around—but her frantic clucks added to the chorus of crickets and the crescendo of the owls: Who? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We brought the chickens up from out of the root cellar to get fresh air and sunlight. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As children, Henrietta and Day awoke each morning at four o’clock to milk the cows and feed the chickens, hogs, and horses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Their leftovers are a feast! White rice and chicken! Look Pa, there’s even meat left on the chicken!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Willis, you ought to see what them folks in New York call fried chicken.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said, “Never you mind. That’s your father and his wife’s business,” and then she sent Fern out to the coop with a pan of chicken feed. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The smell of straw, chicken feathers, and chicken droppings rose up to my nose. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see any chickens around, and I was nervous about that. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

If they were Great-Uncle Jim’s chickens, and you aren’t supposed to keep special chickens in with the other kind, and he’d had them for years, well, then these were special chickens too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Arize paused as she removed a translucently pale egg from inside the chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Grandma got pink lemonade tea for both of us, plus chicken salad sandwiches with salt-and-pepper chips. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

As piece after piece of chicken was eaten, I was unable to eat my soup at all. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the goats began to bleat happily, and the chickens talked all together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It seems the chickens don’t like fresh manure, so he waits three or four days before bringing them in—but not a day longer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some rode in carts piled high with produce: cabbages and bags of grain, cheese, butter and bacon, chickens and ducks. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I did not eat much chicken that day at luncheon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she crossed the garden, Anya could hear the chickens raising a huge ruckus inside the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I imagine a white farmhouse with black shutters, a red barn in the back, a post-and-rail fence, chickens in a coop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Joe does not have to tell her anything and I do not have to be the steak sauce, because Kelsey chickens out and doesn’t show. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had fed the goats and the chickens, and gathered the milkand the eggs, and thanked the animals for their time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the same way, McDonald’s makes much more by selling you a chicken nugget than a piece of recognizable chicken. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He drove iron stakes into the ground to fortify the chicken coop against future mink attacks and treasured the few eggs he gathered every morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the side of the house, she grabs one of the chickens rooting around in the tom paper wrappers and cracked plastic bottles and dirty diapers strewn in the weeds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t die like that in her own barn with the chickens watching. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If you wash down your chicken nuggets with almost any soft drink, you are drinking corn with your corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She brings over a pot of white rice with vegetable bits sprinkled over it and a plate of chicken patties. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Rob piled eight pieces of com on the cob, a mountain of mashed potatoes, eighteen chicken wings, and three pieces of cheesecake on his plate. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ty'ree had fried chicken and made mashed potatoes and corn with red peppers in it. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There were chickens turning on a spit, which seemed to be magically going round and round on its own. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She bought preroasted chickens from the supermarket and served them with potato salad prepared who knew when, sold in little plastic containers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Bundle up best you can and go feed Muff’s chickens, you hear?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He crammed the rest of his chicken sandwich into his mouth and stared off at the highway as he chewed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I am thinking no one is in charge of the childrens, or else they would not be hungry and cold in the chicken shad.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

This is what Ralph would have liked to think about instead: a chicken cooked and cooling. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We just left lunch, and the cafeteria had fried chicken, one of the foods Williamson gets right. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Strong-smelling foods such as onions, fish, and herbs should also be avoided, as they may flavor your chickens’ eggs. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She had not eaten anything but raw vegetables in several days, and had not tasted chicken in many months. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you count all the chickens, pigs, and fish, there are hundreds of millions of food animals raised on factory farms every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If there was an animal she thought would kill our chickens, Mama would kill that animal first. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not far behind Josh was the chicken house with a big fenced-in yard around it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his mind, at least, there is no real link between a nugget and a chicken except the name. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But they all had plenty of food and water, so I hoped they would just keep scratching in the dust like regular chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He dumped the grain to the chickens without chasing any of them. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the chicken flapped her wings, erupted from Finn’s grasp, and half ran, half flew across the yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The bedroom door opened and Moms came in with some fried chicken, green beans, rice, and gravy. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, most of her work was at home, plucking chickens or doing other things which required little strength. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Next year there would be a marketplace where the villagers could sell and buy vegetables and chickens and other goods. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his boot heels hit the ground, they squawked like a chicken, then mooed like a cow. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He skipped like a chicken, in a jagged movement of legs and arms. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not a word was spoken as he prepared instant chicken casserole mix for Edwin and Garvey. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When we have KFC for dinner, I eat the fried chicken right off the bones. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When the chicken and rice are ready, Mama ladles it onto plates. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It all started on January 17, 1912, when Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon at the Rockefeller Institute, grew his “immortal chicken heart.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He lives next door on his family’s chicken farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I know chickens can die fast without water. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He started to pluck the feathers off quickly, and he did not speak until the chicken had been reduced to a slim form covered with white-yellow skin. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some might argue that in this game of chicken, whites should make the first move. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She parks me on a bench near a scrawny elm tree, where I feel strangely invisible as she goes off to fetch two mandarin chicken salads. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Joel says the chickens get about 20 percent of their diet from the fresh grass, worms, grasshoppers, and crickets they find. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

One day they are playing chicken on Mr. Benny’s roof. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what I must have learned, the night God turned his back on me: how to foretell the future in chicken bones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witch doctor offered the diagnosis: appeasement of the spirits through sacrificing a white chicken twice a year. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-eight is four yuppyish types, meaning everything on the side and agonizing instructions as to the chicken Caesars. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I gave up worrying about the new chicken and opened the crate door. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It horrified the children when they caught her throwing scraps of chicken into the chicken feed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when Big Ma had announced she’d be baking chicken for tonight’s supper, I saw the gears turning in Fern’s mind. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Some were locked, others opened only to reveal unfamiliar yards, barking dogs, and startled chickens. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ma frowns at Pa and says, “Don’t you encourage her. Have you forgotten the chicken fight episode? She said that was an accident also and now look at her face.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conjurer waved his cape again and called out, “You are no longer a chicken, you are a boy again! But wait, the weather has changed! It’s positively freezing in here!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo killed a chicken in honor of Vatete, who had returned with her, and several other relatives arrived from the other village with baskets of food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never know when you might chicken out in the lunchroom. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even the cages of chickens went into the wagons, one in each. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I asked her, “Can a chicken bark like a dog?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our ten black chickens and the red-brown rooster arrived in a cage. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her shoulders feel like chicken bones stitched together. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked in and sat down before a plate of rice, green beans, and what appeared to be very small chickens. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If a boy didn't care for barbecued chicken or potato chips, people would accept it as a matter of personal taste, saying, "Oh well, I guess it takes all kinds." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hannah felt a lot like the chickens, nervous about all the loud, strange men and the laughing, chattering women. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odor of roast chicken wafted over him from the big, wood-fired oven. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, everyone,” she said, her voice much sweeter than it had been when she took chicken orders. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I got chicken on wooden skewers and brought it back to the table wrapped in wax paper. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The couple left after a few minutes, and from the back of the house I watched the red car scare chickens, raise dust and disappear toward Magnolia. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did my chores—tried to revive my sad little garden, cleaned the chicken coop, put a pot of beans on to simmer for supper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The chickens can eat it, too, though they like corn better. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But, that night, in that kitchen, there were people—people who cared about me, people who might have even loved me—squashed around Fang’s table, eating some tasty homebrewed chicken and rice concoction. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a commotion in the chicken run, but not the spectacle that Fern had in mind. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Did you want to eat the chicken while in bed?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He speared iguanas and roasted them on open fires, claiming that their meat was tastier than chicken. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I knew it,” Moss’s mama said, and she brought over a plate stacked high with chicken. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A good life for a chicken or a cow means doing all those things its nature tells it to do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She tugged hard, and the chicken’s neck cracked. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is the fastest- growing chicken ever, turning corn into meat faster than any other bird. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I shook my head and began cutting up a chicken. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Joel moves the chickens every day for the same reason he moves the cows every night. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Mike, are you blind? That chicken’s not brown, inside is probably raw.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This night he did not dump the can of grain to the chickens so that they had to leap over each other and struggle to get it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sulked and smoked on the balcony while I made rice with chicken neck stew. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was grateful not to be squishing in chicken mud, which I did not have nightmares about so frequently now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-two years old, a different generation, the last child of eight, who spent his first twelve years on an orchard farm where his family raised sheep and chickens. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dicey picked out three chicken TV dinners and went to the fruit counter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to Kapoeta, she had traded something—I don’t know what—to one of the local tribes for a big chicken. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of smile you give to a chicken whose head you’re about to cut off. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The comrades acted like a group of neighbors sitting in judgment upon one of their kind who had stolen a chicken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken looked up, ruffling her feathers and flapping her wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I take a little while before my turn, take a breath, and dive in: Some are skinny like chicken lips. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta went back to eating her seeds, and as she stopped glaring at it, the black streak chicken floated gently down. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Juice and chicken tender bits spray my plate. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mama came out of the house, glanced at the clean chicken area, and told Stella she’d done a nice job. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For some reason I was starving, and I piled my plate with fried chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans, okra. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Where I might hide this stolen chicken was another matter. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The butcher would let you pick your own chicken if you wanted to, but Liyana’s mother didn’t. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t in the house or in the barn or in the chicken coop or anywhere. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes Hazel came damply up the chicken walk to the Palace. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I go into the kitchen, there are chickens everywhere. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table was a whomping platter of fried chicken. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You take the chicken out after two days and cut it off the bone and put the meat back.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But what if it had locked my chicken out of her house? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

‘Ten dollars a week would buy about fifteen fried chickens. Or five pairs of shoes or five dresses. Or installments on a radio.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"But how am I going to open the door of the fridge to get at the cold chicken and all the leftovers? That's something I do every evening at home." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They walked through the Smoke, past cook fires being extinguished with shovelfuls of dirt; windows coming alight with candles and electric bulbs; and a handful of young uglies pursuing an escaped chicken. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One day, she had her crystal chicken just right, and her red- cooked carp too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to—chicken nipple—see what you can do with your feet,” Dexter said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Obinze selected some spice bottles from the cupboard, sprinkled them on the chicken, and put the pot on the stove. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tonight while we’re eating the chicken cooked too long and rice not cooked enough, I’m missing Mama’s neckbones, gravy, and cornbread bad. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Josh stood in the doorway, already dressed for taekwondo and inhaling a chicken leg. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“If there’s a chicken thief in the area, I think we should hear about it,” he said. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

What are you supposed to do with a found chicken—is it like a found dog? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Wind rustled the trees and the chickens clucked for their afternoon meal. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once all eight cones were loaded, Daniel reached underneath and took one chicken’s head between his first finger and thumb. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Lazarus come forth, he thought, and pulled out a cool chicken. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The household staff ate together like family, everyone crowded around the big table in the kitchen where Cook kneaded bread and plucked chickens and did all the hard work of preparing food. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The yard was bounded by a once-white fence against which Pauline’s mother planted flowers and within which they kept a few chickens. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed it was enough; Henry hauled himself up from the floor, grabbed a chicken leg to take with him, and veered down the hall toward the back door. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the humans’ farm, there were eggs in the chicken coop. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Another day she sat prying the pimpled yellow fat off chicken parts, then dividing them between thigh and leg. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They stuck needles full of medicine into the female chickens, so the females wouldn’t get sick and die. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What if you got a scoop of ice cream on the chicken livers?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I even told him about the eight new chickens. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They went out back to the chicken shed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The constant odor of broasting chicken is taking away my appetite. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of people came up to me later and told me how good it was to see Jim Brown’s chickens at a show again, and what a loss his death was to the community. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The chickens all ran out before I could stop them, and I ran after them, waving my arms and looking for the hawk. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her that chicken feet aren’t that big, but she seemed proud of her work so I said nothing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Each cone has an opening at the bottom for the chicken’s head. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I was watching dad carve the chicken and then it flapped its wings and flew away!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Uh, yeah” — he squinted one-eyed at the chicken — “yeah, I guess it is.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what makes a chicken win a ribbon or not. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

No house, no chickens or sheep, no family! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She lingered by a package of chicken wings, which, at twenty-nine cents a pound, held some interest for her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the bees would be calm after all, the snakes silent, and the chickens full of eggs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Dinah was making her way down the dusty path from the house, waddling along like one of our chickens. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I keep thinking of how you and Nicholas were in Nsukka,” Obinze said one afternoon as he helped her cut up a chicken. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He would have given half his fortune, if he had one, for a nice piece of raw, red meat, instead of the usual breast of chicken or scrambled eggs with asparagus. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

That last link was when the chickens fed us. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then she took a big roast chicken out of the oven and said, “There! Now if I can keep the cats out of here, we’re all set.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He went to his hot plate, heated up some water, and made some chicken noodle Cup-a-Soup. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was accustomed to the chorus of meadowlarks and sandpipers and prairie chickens, now overlaid with the pock-pocking of drills pounding the earth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The working people were dressed muchly as we did out in the country, but there were a few gentry who stuck out of the crowd like peacocks wandering in the chicken pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned with a shipment of enormous boxes that were piled in the far courtyard, between the chicken coop and the woodshed, until the winter was over. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was in the kitchen chopping mushrooms and dill for a chicken soup she was cooking for the old ladies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From his seat on the stairs, Luke had to hold himself back from going to fish the edge of the letter out of the chicken gravy and looking at it himself. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad, I was just wondering,” I begin, my mouth full of chicken. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“If all my little chickens go, what will become of me?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were silent for a while, watching the vultures hovering overhead; the neighbors had killed a chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was a run-around freedom that seem faraway to me now—freedom to make your plan, drum on the shocshine box, earn a little money, buy a chicken, read the papier. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he was upstairs changing into a flannel shirt, khakis, tennis socks, and tan leather hiking boots, she fixed black coffee in a thermos and some chicken salad sandwiches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooking chicken rose faintly on the air. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cooked a chicken and roasted potatoes and carrots. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d bleat in bliss, and the chickens and rooster would cluster around his feet as if they, too, welcomed him home. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was still the loveliest summer weather, and there had been chicken for dinner, so that Merlyn had gone off to the edge of their shooting-ground and sat down under a tree. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We unpacked all the stuff she brought, which really was leftover fried chicken and mashed potatoes from her grandmother’s funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nelson is my friend that showed me how to sing to the chickens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tidied up the chicken coop and got it ready for its new residents. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And Crane-man produced yet another surprise to add to the meal: two chicken leg- bones. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Today I needed to find out about chicken food and how much it costs. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The chickens were fidgety, the cows were skittish, and the pigs were sullen and glum. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Piper kept yelling commands and using her cornucopia to bounce coconuts and roasted chickens off the turtle’s eyeballs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was a rich tomato stew flavored with strange spices—and full of chicken! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plates are piled high with golden-brown noodles, colorful cooked vegetables with tofu, and deep-fried, orange-glazed chicken. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the end I personally killed a dozen or so chickens before moving on to try another station. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mum served out chicken casserole, one of my favourite things to eat, from a big orange pot. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone in town raised a few chickens, but turkeys were less common, being bigger and having a more pronounced tendency toward meanness, except of course for Travis’s birds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Samantha wasn’t sure if Ella would know how to guard against chicken thieves, but she said if I have any more trouble to let her know and she would look it up in her book. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Not only was the roast chicken unimpressive, but after a few forkfuls, she’d dashed into the bathroom to deposit the contents of her stomach. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe some seedlings had not been planted into their underwater beds properly, or perhaps our pig was eating the wrong kind of garbage, or maybe one of our chickens was dirtying our doorway. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got back out in the courtyard and I tore up that chicken, using my hands. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Re-seated, Mrs. Glass sighed, as she always sighed, in any situation, when cups of chicken broth were declined. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She would never be quite certain, but the more time passed, the less probable it seemed that she could move elsewhere, and it became a question of chickens and eggs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each night, in my dark corner of the hut, filled with shame and with quiet tears, I suck and chew the chicken bones until there is nothing left. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

See those chicken nuggets in the freezer case? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Chou puts the chickens in the pot, submerging them in water to boil them whole. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the chicken bones in a calabash bowl left on our doorstep by Tata Kuvudundu some weeks back, which had given me the creeps. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I add some green beans to the barbecued chicken on my plate and do as I’m told. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I think your chickens are doing okay now. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The chicken’s body trembled and writhed after the head was severed, then fell still. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In between marathon bicycle rides I spend most of my time taking care of chickens, learning how to wire up small explosive devices, and trying hard not to suddenly scream my head off with nerves. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She saw piles of butchered chickens and was able to buy as many as she wanted even though they cost three times as much as usual, since free pricing had been decreed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his swatter off the floor, killed a fly on his arm as he said the word lie, and flipped the fly off for the chicken. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So maybe we could eat old chicken together? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A couple of feet across from the women, behind yellow, featherless chickens hanging from hooks, men in bloody aprons raise their cleavers and cut into slabs of beef with the precision of many years’ practice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rifled through it, devouring a chicken leg, a piece of cheese, a handful of grapes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought, Oh my God, she’s buying a chicken farm. I guess she really, really doesn’t want to be in education anymore.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And when he loved the lambs too much, he gave them up for chickens. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The idea of a chicken lady issuing prophecies was apparently just as ridiculous to Romans as it was to Greeks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some insect, maybe a grasshopper or worm, found its way to the center of the chicken run and all the chickens went crazy pecking, flapping, and scratching to get at it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He closed his book with a bang, leaped to his feet, seized his wand of lignum vitae, and rushed at Arthur as if he were trying to shoo away a stray chicken. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere close by, chickens began to squawk wildly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If one of her chickens got the snuffles one day, rubbing asafetida in butter on their nostrils would set them straight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you two are going to chicken out, fine,” she said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It gets so desperate he decides to kill one of the chickens and starts eyeing the goat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I mean, it's basically like the world's greatest chicken or something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The head wiggled as hands stuck food into the chicken beak. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A man squats beside a pool of muddy water, plucking a chicken. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “can a dog lay eggs like a chicken?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But like every other bit of “waste” on this farm, Joel regards chicken guts as a form of biological wealth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The domesticated chicken is the most widespread fowl ever. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the school year, Mott left the faculty to move to a farm in Maryland with her husband to raise chickens, and Volpe applied to be assistant drama director. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was dressed like a beggar girl and stood holding a chicken. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Smasher chased the chickens a little to keep in practice in case there should ever be sheep to herd. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windy takes a bite of chicken, chews twice, and then starts talking. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What did the chickens say when the hen laid an orange?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she left Bucktown the chickens were fluttering and squawking and she looked for all the world like an old woman. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can bake a chicken and boil potatoes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to jump up and tell everybody that sometimes J.T. hauled out of bed at midnight—or 2 A.M.—and worked clear through the night because those chicken buyers collected around the clock. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It was chicken. I actually ate two helpings of it.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, he put the chicken back in his pockets, took a deep breath, and left the room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Takumi looked at me with poorly disguised panic, and I felt lunch—fried chicken—rising in my stomach. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Trust me, my mother’s a food synthesis engineer. That stuff’s not actual chicken—they grow it in a petri dish.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One of the helpers, a stout Italian woman named Connie, cut up bread and tomatoes and brought containers of chicken salad, hummus, and tabouli. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I hated the irritating and incessant cluck, cluck, cluck of our chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By Thursday nights, the Sunday chicken that Grandma had roasted was down to a few threads in the soup we would eat. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense, my dear fellah,” said Sir Ector, “here you are, just you have a few chickens to keep your strength up.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were dragging goats, carrying yams and boxes on their heads, chickens and rolled-up mats under their arms, kerosene lamps in their hands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They sleep in a once stately Old World suite with the furniture shored up against the walls and chicken feathers clogging the marble sinks and newspapers tacked clumsily across the windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Written around the edge were things like Time to make tea, Time to feed the chickens, and You’re late. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Rebequita, mi amor, isn’t there a chicken breast you could give me?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bess and I ate chicken, but I did not have much appetite. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only joking, such an absurd joke, ha-ha! There’s no such thing as chicken soup!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She brought empanadas and sugared breads wrapped in tinfoil, arroz con pollo and chicken soup packaged in plastic containers. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A clay building houses chickens in cool, connected holes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sure you’re a very good chicken keeper, but you must agree there’s no point in your continuing to take this class. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When Dad came to tuck me in, I wondered if he would say anything about the chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I fixed myself a plate of kardhai chicken and the fresh wheat roti my mother had made minutes earlier. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The heavier feather quilts were spread out on clean sheets in the sun, and we took turns shooing the inquisitive dogs and cats and chickens away from them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“A scrawny chicken coming to work with the men?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was also spinach, fried eggplant with yogurt, and chicken stew. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A big table loaded down with fried chicken and biscuits and a wash-tub full of macaroni with plenty cheese in it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A bird, it had been, about the size of a very small chicken only with a fantail and stubby wings that slammed against its body and made loud noise. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But shooting is not the accepted method of killing a tame chicken. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once I sneaked into the hen house and took eggs, but the chickens were scared, thinking from my approach at night that I was a weasel or a fox. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Behind the butcher were cages with fresh chickens waiting to be killed for the buyer, and before him was a big zinc washbasin filled with fresh fish. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were snug in the cones, the chickens fell silent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At least Big Ma had the house smelling like barbecued chicken and lemon cake. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“No mice, mind you. A fat chicken would be lovely, or a length of sausage, or beef stew ... Listen to me. I’m as bad as Grandfather!” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin from his wrist to his knuckles was dotted with age spots, and it was loose, like skin hanging from a chicken soup bone. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for chickens, cattle, pigs and sheep. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did I put one piece of chicken or two? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s over the chicken, and she’ll save a big piece for me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Uaaxee returned with a hamper from which protruded a chicken wing as big as a turkey. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was I going to be able to enjoy chicken so soon after working in the processing shed and gut-composting pile? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We met a blue monkey and were slaves in a plastic mine. Tendai and I were accused of witchcraft. Oh! And we had chicken pox.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked surprised but impressed when I showed her your worksheet and my chicken books from the library. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

You need to take the chicken and then the grain, but then take the chicken back with you and leave it while you take the wolf. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

After a long time, slowly, like a spell was wearing off, I saw a shadow of a chicken, and then darker and lighter stripes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know anything about sick chickens, so maybe I could learn what to do. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Spencer added, “Yeah, but remember last summer when it got so hot we had to feed the chickens ice water to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Why did the unwashed chicken cross the road twice?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Joel lets his chickens loose in a pasture, he is using their natural instinct to clean up after herbivores. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She came shuffling around the side of the barn, followed by a retinue of chickens. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, we were sitting in the yard watching the chickens peck for corn and bugs. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Next to it, the chicken coop stood empty, as it had for years. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no cows anywhere, or chickens, or horses. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A roll of chicken wire was the last item in Uncle Chester’s stock of supplies stored in the barn. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But of course there was no synagogue anymore, and no challah rolls or potatoes or chicken. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The chickens are distracting me from the fact that we all might die today. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You had better come back and feed her, Frightful,” he said, “or she’ll be imprinted on a monster chicken.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The game, dummy. Chicken? Like two cars drive directly toward each other until one chickens out and swerves away?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But then, so did the goats and chickens. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Epler were German farmers who brought their eggs and chickens to market three times a week. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new business emerged—cattle, pigs, and chickens started being stuffed full of corn in large factory-type operations called feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to weed the garden and then you’re going to string up the new chicken wire Dad bought to keep the rabbits out.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

From what I could gather, you had to separate them so that the male chickens could be killed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoons we swam in the creek or sometimes in the surf, then wound down before a dinner of steak with steamed carrots and peas one night and chicken with steamed carrots and peas the next. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your chickens, but they must be dog food or roadkill by now. How could they have made it this far?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It had nothing to do with the chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Liyana stooped to see a chicken gobble a plump green caterpillar. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the chickens spin at high speed, they rub against the stiff fingers, which pull their feathers off. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We stacked four of them in front of the pens and then he and I got to work catching chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The words stuck like a chicken bone in my throat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Alice and I could raise chickens—no, they’re domestic birds and wouldn’t look right in the wilderness— pheasant and quail would be better. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their Frigidaire was always stocked with newly acquired pieces of ham, half roasts and quartered chickens. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would run the chicken down and hold it with her paws until Mama came. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home, the yard was bustling with chickens getting ready to roost down for the evening and there was nobody sitting on the porch. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And then I jump over the chickens and scurry up the ladder, pushing aside the loose planks and crawling through the little door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote talks to me all the time—when I’m pulling feathers off the chicken, frying potatoes on the woodstove, sitting by the fire in the living room with a child in my lap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They seemed like something a chicken might eat. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

That’s where, six times a month, several hundred chickens are killed, scalded, plucked, and gutted. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Stealing chickens and swiping melons—the kinds of things we did to get by—had made me seem like a problem to the child-welfare people. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much said, and at first it was always about the chicken or the biscuits, or maybe the day’s weather. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over the fence and whispered, “I think Ms. Griegson stole three of Mr. Brown’s chickens.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Still, the chunks of white meat chicken had only a faint chicken taste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They sip their soup directly from the bowl and eat the chicken with their hands. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d spent the last five years building up the flock of tangly-haired sheep again, and he and Piper had goats, a small herd of cows, pigs, two riding horses, a pony, and chickens. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, Lillie,” he said to Mother, "I guess my spring chicken days are over. When you start getting pecks on the cheek from your daughters’ friends, you’re on the decline.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The price of chicken wings, the company’s bread and butter, had risen. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

"Almost. Your mother's in the kitchen, making that chicken dish again." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when my brother shouted that Auntie was a talking chicken without a head, she pushed my brother against the gate and spat on his face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she says, taking the breast, “I guess that makes us perfect chicken partners then.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If the electricity goes, chicken will keep at room temperature. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She could hear chickens were clucking outside the windows, scratching for bits of gravel in the grass. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott had gnawed silently on a chicken wing while Mom ate her salad, but once she got up and approached the appetizer bar, he dropped the bone onto his plate. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Folks sent us oranges and apples and chickens and turkeys and clothes and if someone had anything extra, they just gave it to us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami scolded as she wrestled with a chicken whose neck she was about to wring. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One package of uncooked chicken and a package of ground beef. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he saw the evil sign it sent him singing like a canary, because our chicken house is where he sleeps. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew in my heart I was right and that I had to get the chickens back as quickly as I could. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

PS Don’t worry, I’m going to the library now and I’m sure they’ll have a book on how to take care of chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Was I going to give it all up because I was too chicken to touch a stupid insect? Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember, even chickens who can forage for insects and other foods will get the majority of their nutritional needs from this feed, so choose wisely. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

This is the moment the chickens passed over from looking like dead animals to looking like food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And after that, when we fed Old Yeller cornmeal mush or fresh meat, he ate it and did well on it and never one time bothered our chicken nests. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rotisserie chicken was sort of a disaster, but that’s not the point of this story. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even the hens, fenced in by the wire chicken run, clucked and fussed in our honor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They knew him like they knew that Old Charlie Valentine preferred his chickens to his great-grandchildren, and sometimes let them roost in the house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I tell myself I should feel happy she considers my arrival worthy of a chicken sacrifice. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I missed my room, my bed, Phil’s scrambled eggs, and even Gay’s chicken nuggets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She could have helped her father buy seeds and tools for next year’s crop, a couple of new chickens, or maybe that sewing machine for her mother! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Here and there a tyke cried and she could hear the soft clucking of chickens. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the chicken bone out of his mouth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Fadi rolled the foil off his steaming chicken and, without much interest, removed the plastic silverware from its protective plastic bag. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I went to the kitchen and drank some milk, then mixed some meal and water for Granny’s chickens and went out to dump it in their pan. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And an hour and a half later, when we're just sitting down to eat homemade chicken noodle soup, the doc himself is pounding on our front door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, Daniel Ellsberg and his son Robert carried plates of barbequed chicken to an outdoor picnic table. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I reached the part where the chicken cooks for two hours in a wok, I closed the book. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as anyone opened the boot, which they did at half the checkpoints, the chickens began to carry on like—well, like chickens! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I compared the bowl of soup that sat before me with the crispy chicken and decided in favor of the chicken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when she was chasing me with a chicken head, I turned and took a swing at her, hitting her on the breast. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Enough chickens to lay fresh eggs for every officer in the squadron at five cents apiece from the mess fund,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lee came out with a platter of fried chicken, a bowl of smoking boiled potatoes, and a deep dish of pickled beets, all carried on a pastry board. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I could really go for some french fries and chicken nuggets!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I meant the water bucket, from when I watered the chickens this morning.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim catches the two chickens and locks their wings behind their backs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, when he handed Mrs. Sen the paper bag, he said, “No more fish for a while. Cook the chicken in the freezer. I need to start holding office hours.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At dinner Rishi glanced at Ashish, who made a who knows? face and went back to eating his chicken and dumplings. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I took a quick glance at the chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Just then Dexter cried out, “Barbecue chicken sandwiches,” and everyone laughed, especially Dexter. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Next thing you know, you’re running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their small backyard included an aboveground pool as well as a chicken coop. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting on the floor with Spot, eating more chicken. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a horrible time for Kate to show up, but she did just then, innocently rounding the corner of the chicken house. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had eaten chicken hundreds of times, but she had never witnessed this scene before. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t have to get up to feed the chickens at dawn like I did in Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Aunty Ifeka’s eyes began to dart around the yard, she knew it was in search of a suitable chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Take a chicken’s foot, tie it with red string, spin it over your head three times, then burn it. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom made him get roasted chicken and a plain baked potato. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s in my grade at school. Mama, can I have the chicken head?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The stewardesses brought us small trays fitted with square plates filled with sauce over chicken, mushy rice, and boiled string beans. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The chickens have kept on laying, and there are two more now than there were at the beginning. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sink down in my seat because my knees are shaking, and stare down at my chicken. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With loud, pleased clucks, the chicken shook her feathers, moved the egg with her beak, then proudly strutted her way out of the henhouse. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then we walked back and forth, picking out broken glass, like chickens pecking seeds. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day when we were eating roast chicken, I ripped the thigh from the drumstick with my hands. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Monique took two days off from work, mostly to watch the soaps, but she did open a can of chicken soup each day and give it to Angel. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I decided I better go get that chicken before Dad comes back and Mom remembers what she agreed to. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They removed insects from the tomatoes, mealies, squash and pumpkins and fed them to bantam chickens penned at the mouths of the tunnels. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here at least I could smell chicken cooking somewhere. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I figured she was grossing me out as revenge for not eating her chicken dinner. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“What you need is some chicken soup, buddy.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Like chickens drinking, the students lifted their eyes towards the distant ceiling. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the chickens are ready now,” he said. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It was in my barn, chasing the chickens! And when it ran away, it went straight through the wall.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We rebuilt the chicken coops and stables and began to plan an irrigation system so the crops wouldn’t have to depend on the weather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Edward, I sent you here to work so you’d have food and warmth and a place to belong, and instead you’re playing knights with the chickens. What be you thinking?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was the chicken coop Linda and he had built together, and the chickens wandering in the yard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a bite of chicken, pretending that was all I was going to say about the matter. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If your chickens range outside, they will likely find sufficient grit on their own. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The red fingers and lips of a man cheering, spewing specks of barbecued chicken. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The chickens were clucking and flying up into the kola nut tree, where they would sleep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Not the cows or the chickens. Miss Trotter and Aunt Naomi.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Chris said you even used to take some of your chickens to the poultry shows. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The smell of the spices on the chicken wafted up, and a pang of hunger hit Moss again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My dad sawed off a piece of chicken and stuffed it in his mouth. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Why had he called me if he didn’t think I could take care of this new chicken? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We have to save some of my chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

If anyone or anything set foot in our chicken house—if it had feet, that is—we would catch the culprit red-handed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost half is eaten by animals and turned into beef, chicken, fish, or pork. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She noticed many people staring curiously at the chickens as if they had never seen them before, but few were buying, because they could not afford them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Cham had told her, “May that bird always provide for you,” Thirty years later, the widow claimed the chicken still laid an egg every day. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The occasional stones which were being thrown at her by the Old Ones she dexterously caught and swallowed, in the maddening way which chickens have when you are trying to drive them off. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the year she stayed awake thirty-two hours straight when fever from the chicken pox had me full of delirium, so sick I wanted to die. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Celia puts a raw chicken thigh in, bumps the bag around. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I learned how to fry chicken, catfish, and okra. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And with four chickens now, that food is disappearing a lot faster than it used to. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Since early morning was prime hunting time for the coyotes, I would look toward the chicken house. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baskets reeked sweetly, like raw chicken left in the sun all day. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

So I can understand how the thought of a chicken would make him hungry. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to do at Big Ma’s than watch the chickens fight over a cricket. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The courtyards were littered with uprooted trees, broken bits of walls, and dead chickens. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb bayed and Ma Charles told him to hush but Caleb kept making his noise and the chickens squawked on and on. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was as noisy and busy as a chicken yard. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom portioned grilled chicken wings with barbecue sauce, corn bread, and steamed broccoli onto three plates, and set them out on the table. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You know Pastor Richburg—he didn’t want to hold no chicken bogs or fish fries to raise money.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It looked like a piece of chicken bone with gristle and string all on it and sticky and something black. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knights fell among'the archers like wolves among chickens, driving them back toward the ships and into the river before most could notch an arrow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nearby, their ducks waddled about and their chickens pecked the ground, searching for bits of food. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She comes back into the kitchen, opens the little door, and pokes around at the roosting chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A couple months ago I’d been arguing over food court bourbon chicken that colored denim was a sin. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At one point she paused, gripping the chicken with both hands, and stared out the window. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

These are the things I had to do: Let the chickens out of the chicken yard. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ketchup-wigged french fries would march across our plates, engaging in brief affairs or heated disputes over carrot coins while burly chicken legs guarded the perimeter, ready to jump in should things get out of hand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That night, besides the collar, there was a ragged blanket too, and half a chicken. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I take out one of the chicken wings and pass the bag. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Once upon a time, yes. We used to read the will of the gods by examining animal guts—chickens, goats, that sort of thing. Nowadays, we use these.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain saw a vast pot of stewed chicken, a pot of hot tea, a disappearing loaf of battered bread, some pickles. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew they were smart chickens, and special, but what would that do against a hawk? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Time to nuke up some chicken for the kids. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. What does Patrick have to do with chicken?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I can’t wait to show Phoebe and Ben the swimming hole and the fields, the hayloft and the trees, and the cows and the chickens. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was the same chicken we'd had all week, but with all the spices she added, she could make the soup smell and taste like something new and draw me to the kitchen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Viola killed and plucked and cooked the chickens. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was dividing one chicken so it stretched into three full meals by using the back and wings in her lemon-rice soup. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain nodded and said thank you and went on smelling chicken. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinner was beans and rice with chunks of chicken. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

While Ma tastes her clear broth chicken noodle soup, I drop two whole red chili peppers in my bowl as Pa looks on approvingly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I took the padlock out and hung it on the chicken coop latch, next to the open door. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Only Hazel stayed awake to replenish the little fire under the cooking chicken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It takes a firm hand with chickens,” he said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I just moved to a farm, and I wanted to have chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

At night we tossed and turned, hungry, afraid, and driven nearly crazy with itching, because most of us had gotten chicken pox. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A peculiar noise, more like a chicken cackle than anything else, came from the end of the table. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, Ashley started to bring out the food—chicken and biscuits, maybe some milk. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up, and sure enough, it was Mr. Willie Ray standing there while Renee piled fried chicken into cardboard buckets. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All day long the outside stove cooked peelings and gristle into chicken feed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave Piers their flock of laying chickens as well as a pair of mallard ducks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then you leave the wolf with the grain and go back for the chicken. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I, the only daughter, usually get roasted chicken, dried bamboo soup, and all-I-can-eat pudding. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Big Ma had me help her clip their wing feathers, which neither the chickens nor Fern appreciated, but clipping their wings made it easier to keep track of them while they strutted about the yard. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As a result the hens do things no normal chicken would do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I think I might go to the show even if I can’t bring any chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

From far away on the north side where the Italians lived and kept chickens in their yards, came the crowing of a rooster. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men brawl over jobs outside the Zollverein gates, and chicken eggs sell for two million reichsmarks apiece, and rheumatic fever stalks Children’s House like a wolf. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The window was greenish, with that chicken wire mesh they used to put inside glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They just want a chicken sandwich. Now your father, he had vision.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not like last time. And a chicken, tell them, not a hen. Tell them who it’s for and then they won’t mess around.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was happy, not because the preacher was coming but because of the chicken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new chicken run was made to give the chickens room to spread out. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

What could be dysfunctional about a mother so spiteful that she intentionally undercooks her husband’s chicken, and a father so narcissistic he gets a face-lift at forty? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A’ight, now this is simple,” Lovey said to me, “Everybody who wants chicken can get a piece. Just make sure you save the drumsticks for the babies.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Cats too. The odd potbellied pig. Ferrets, chickens.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a predator, all right: a red-tailed hawk, right here on my farm, just a short ways from my chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I was out there; I saw what this guy did—he stayed strong while I turned into a panty- wearin’ chicken. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Meantime, I thought you might enjoy—oh, yes, so you’ve found them, have you?” he said, noticing Taran with the chickens. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But they all sounded like witches’ brews: the plasma of chickens, puree of calf fetuses, special salts, and blood from human umbilical cords. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If the door was unlocked, he could tuck the chicken inside. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wish I’d asked you about your chickens while you were alive. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to scold them, but he said chickens don’t understand English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was scared, and I was mad, and I wanted her to leave my farm and my chicken alone. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really think of ‘chicken nipple’ as a swear word,” I said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The chickens, more interested in eating, paid little attention. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

My father makes chicken piccata, which means the kitchen is a mess. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And before I have a chance to chicken out, I close my door, shut off the light, peel down to my boxers, and climb under the covers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A gift from the chickens,” Deirdre explained, winking as Grunt pressed it into my hands. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even with my ears ringing, it sounds like chicken bones cracking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Betty Jean stopped what she was doing, her hands full of chicken guts, and gave me a funny look. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan’s coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eating came back around: first coffee yogurt, then bagels, then chicken. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ugwu fumbled in his shorts pockets and brought out the chicken pieces. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Though I had avoided talking about it, my mind went to the long chain from manure to grass to cow to grubs to chicken to eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Henrietta saw me coming, and when I threw some sunflower seeds into the chicken house, she flapped up and went in after them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Other women in the village told Ma this woman had stolen chicken for them in exchange for jewelry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were eating baked chicken, and all I could think of was that it was pretty good. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the following weeks, Celia boils mild chicken broths for her son, feeding him one spoonful at a time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wash my hands and settle the rest of the chickens in the little hallway while the men gather around Hirsch. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And I was really relieved they didn’t say anything about the three extra chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Should we start on the rice while the chicken is cooking?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Chapatis were given out, and we were shooed like chickens from the courtyard out into the city. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone worried about his chickens? Someone missing his traps?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They caught our chicken when it flew away. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She did not call the fish store, nor did she thaw chicken. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Threw feed from her apron pockets to the turkeys and chickens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mother burst into action, fussing like a frantic chicken. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I thought about all the routine things I should be doing—milking the cow, feeding the chickens, collecting the eggs, and weeding the garden. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Diego had been killing Luke’s chickens for more than a year. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tata Kuvudundu cast his bone predictions, and nearly every girl in the village had danced with a chicken held to her head, to bring down rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A chicken, de Vries realized, was merely an egg’s way of making a better egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ma had fried some chicken and baked a couple of pies too. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They brought plates of cold ham and chicken, bowls of fruit salad, caramel pudding and ice cream. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was hungry again and thinking about the leftover chicken in the refrigerator, how I'd make myself a sandwich and maybe wash it all down with some of Ty'ree's nasty ginger ale. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

That night she scraped some money together and bought us chicken. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For a while I had called it “the chicken tree.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know chicken keeping was going to be this complicated, but that’s how it is, I guess, at least with unusual chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

God Save the King had taken her unawares, she was still holding a plate heaped with chicken in aspic. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He hands me the notebook and a pen, and when I say, “That’s okay,” he tells me his handwriting is like chicken scratch and it’s up to me to keep the notes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What’s up with Mom?” he asked from behind a plate piled high with ham, turkey, and chicken, topped with two slices of pizza. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What did you think I was, a spring chicken? Haw, haw—that’s a good one, eh, Sister?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He rode his bicycle through the courtyard, chasing chickens and other children, laughing over which ones shrieked the loudest. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My chickens grace me with feathers, and I wear them to remember that when I was born, someone saw me as a bird. That’s all, not much of a story.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“There are all the men’s empty beds in this village. And empty horse stalls, pigpens, and chicken houses! The emperor’s men took everything and left the villagers shells for their tears.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but Dexter started out like me, too—making strange noises and movements. And then one day he said ‘chicken nipple,’ and everything changed. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But for now, Gramps has his beagle, and I have a chicken and a singing tree, and that’s the way it is. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You’re just in time for a big hot bowl of chicken soup with noodles, made from scratch, the best you ever tasted.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She reached the metal tongs down into the pan and poked at a chicken breast. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Petey clenched his fist and ran through before he could chicken out. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When Adam had gone back into the house and Lee was moving out with a pan of grain to feed the chickens, Cal put his arm around his brother’s shoulders and hugged him reassuringly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday evening, August 3— we got real chicken and rice tonight! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creating an actual, edible dinner out of a sidewalk-hard, so-cold-it-burned-your-hand box of chicken legs or a potpie began to seem a little bit magical. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, three more chickens needed my help, and I wouldn’t be able to find my way on my own. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

McNeil asked the other two students if they were chicken, and they, of course, said no. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath—“Jump up and down on the table, squawking like a two-hundred-pound lovesick chicken!” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It looked and smelled pretty good, with a nice crust and a bright white inside that looked sort of like chicken breast meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ty'ree picked up his chicken wing, took a bite, and chewed slowly. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I’m conscious of my stained uniform: do I smell of underarm sweat, of chicken fat? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday nights they played at a dance hall in nearby Blyn, where a farmer had turned, with the addition of some strings of electric lights, his chicken coop into Sequim’s most popular dance venue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sanjeev went to the kitchen, which was empty, and ate a piece of chicken out of the tray on the counter with his fingers because he thought no one was looking. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“As long as it’s not chicken tenders it’ll be something new for me.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Church mothers packed a bunch of food for us to eat—sandwiches, chicken, fruit, and cold drinks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie tried to push Basta's hands away when he reached for her, but he took her by the back of the head like a chicken whose neck he was going to wring. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t bother coming over here tonight. Lolly and me ate up all the supper. We finally caught that ghetto chicken that’s been running around here.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Uncle Kufa quickly took three trussed -up chickens from the other villagers and laid them before the doctor. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate the tasteless beans, the sticky rice, the greasy fried chicken. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s only the biggest chicken farm in the county with flocks of fifty thousand birds at a time. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But those are not her chickens, not even if she really wants them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’d watched as the sun fed the grass, the grass fed the cattle, and the cattle fed the chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The farm offered omelets made from ostrich eggs, though in fact the eggs came from domestic chickens. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it wouldn’t have been so bad. We could have slept in hammocks. Learned Spanish. Lived in a little house with chickens in the yard.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Doc brought in a large chicken for Mama to season and put in the oven. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She saw and smelled roasted chicken and warm, crusty bread scattered with seeds. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma asked, and then she picked up the chicken neck on her plate and reached across to place it on Amaka’s plate. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a stack of plates from the cabinet, then loaded each with baked chicken, mashed potatoes, and greens. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My mom takes a bite of chicken, gives my dad a thumbs-up, and looks at me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But I still didn’t really want to discuss chicken stealing with my mom either. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you telling me these chickens lay exploding eggs?I” he said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He picked at the chicken on his plate. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Neither did she mind that the family now ate at the restaurant every night, one fried chicken part after another. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the moment passed, and Howard brought a piece of chicken out to the yard and we tried to teach Wishbone to roll over, but all he wanted to do was eat that chicken. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was delicious, thick with rice and chunks of chicken, cubed potatoes, green olives, and capers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We had baked chicken, carrots, mashed potatoes and giblet gravy, and rolls for lunch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie scooped up the nearest chicken and sat in the only chair in the room. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They ate their chicken and listened: big, friendly guys, big police .38s on their hips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Horses. Chickens, too. Everything belongs to me. And Ryder. Isn’t that right, boy? Of course, maybe I belong to him and he thinks those are his chickens. Hard to say.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday we had mashed potatoes, grapes, chicken glass of milk each ice cream each a big sauce dish full awful good too lemon pie cake don’t you think that is pretty good.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Mellower joined in, throwing chocolate sauce and dodging chicken bones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His refrigerator was covered with magnets shaped like states, and he had an egg timer that looked like a chicken. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Winston showed Thomas around for the first hour, pointing out which pens held which animals, where the chicken and turkey coops were, what went where in the barn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was the size of a chicken but too heavy to be a bird. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the chicken dancers are cool because, well, they dance like chickens. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Edwin remained standing along the wall, watching intently as Garvey placed a big pillow under Cole’s head and ladled spoonfuls of chicken broth between his cracked bps. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Africa’s sheep and goats were domesticated in Southwest Asia, its chickens in Southeast Asia, its horses in southern Russia, and its camels probably in Arabia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, Mom has already piled my plate high with chicken parmesan and garlic bread. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The smells of garlic, well-seasoned chicken, and Rosa’s ridiculous lady scent clashed in the steamy air. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Something with ground chicken, something steaming hot that splashes on my fingers and makes me yelp. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“The chickens I will tend to myself, with Yitzchak and the children. Chaya can help you here in the house. There is enough to do.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one obvious option: a night-shift job at a chicken processing plant. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Just keep going down the hill. There’s a split-rail fence at the bottom, where the trees are. Past them you’ll see the chicken coop in the field. I have to get home.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Plus tax, and then some. We’ll have enough left over for a couple fried chicken dinners.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Joe and Marly carried the crate of chickens between them, trying not to jar them too much from one side to another. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’s eaten his tandoori roast chicken, but the curried peas and potatoes are piled in a lumpy hill on the side of his plate. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Thank you so much, love. I already have it squared with Clara,” the man who ordered all the chicken said. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of thing people eat now, people who eat in places like this: Toronto is no longer the land of chicken pot pie, beef stew, overboiled vegetables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His dad makes him chicken tenders three days a week. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She never wants to eat a deli chicken again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She seems to be trying to decide what to do with the oatmeal when all of a sudden she blurts out, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was lucky, because the brutally skinny chicken carcass turned out to be her new roommate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One day he got a chicken head in grease; another day an animal hoof, a few carrots on the side. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Feed the chickens and get the water and take out the dirty bucket. You know that.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Good. I’m glad now that I had the sense to start a chicken roasting. Fresh bread and chicken should make a pretty good meal for a couple of hungry bachelors like us, eh?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

"His hoodlums would attack and denounce the white meat of a roasted chicken." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lurched sideways, almost crushing the dazed chicken flapping at his feet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“How old are you?” she asked as she added chicken pieces. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they were going to have fried chicken, and they were afraid he was going to eat too much,” Brunner said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poor baby sat staring at us, then dropped his chicken bone and commenced squalling. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They asked me the word for a bunch of things like “ladder” and “chicken” and they wrote them down. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But when she got close, Yitzchak shooed her away as if she were one of the chickens, waving his massive hands at her and saying, “Men-talk is not for young ladies.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pop the last four chicken nuggets into the toaster and jiggle the broken lever until it stays in the down position. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There were two things the factory manager possessed a morbid fear of: insects and stolen chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment I might hear Jay following me by the time I got down to the chicken coop, but he didn’t. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Coffee grounds, chicken skin, bat guano, and some kind of old fat. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I choose a Mozart piece that Grandpa used to like, turn the volume way down, and press the Play button before I can chicken out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“This dog eats chicken all the time. Chickens are birds.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I fed the chickens, gathered the eggs, and divided them, too, four apiece. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“A’ight well, just give me a three-piece meal. I know you got chicken.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I imagined the plump body, roasting in our barrel, like a chicken. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She climbs gingerly back down, stepping over the chickens, marches to the sugar tin, and picks up my envelope. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That night Ma makes us fried chicken for supper. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier came in from foraging, held a white chicken aloft, grinning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warder promised Mac a cooked chicken in return. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kept chickens for eggs, and our table was always full of good food. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucile had a special and there was a breast of chicken cut up fine, cream of wheat, and carrots for Baby. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She cherished her chickens more than those children and coveted Cora’s land to expand her coop. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All I know is that I looked up at the end of the chapter, and three chickens were eating sunflower seeds right in front of me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Then the chicken’s your responsibility. Unless you’re not able to care for a single chicken?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Let me get this straight,” he said after a while, brandishing a fresh chicken leg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I picked up the beheaded chicken and carried it to a basin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed the platters of chicken and corn and proposed a toast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Uncle Chester’s efforts had included a chicken coop, but it wasn’t fenced. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then it would be fed to factory-farmed pigs and cattle and even other chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nights, wild sunflowers in the vacant lot close up, scents of chicken and collards blow through kitchen windows. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She had thick-palmed, capable hands and many business interests; she traveled to Dubai to buy gold, to China to buy women’s clothing, and lately, she had become a distributor for a frozen chicken company. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“In these new days, they should have the good sense to wait for us to be done killing the chicken before they descend,” Obiora said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I knew that wasn’t true, but I wondered if maybe you only secretly sell chickens now, because of Ms. Griegson and the typewriter and all. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t know anyone from Bone Gap who would want to sleep in the barn, except maybe Charlie Valentine’s chickens. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hope he doesn’t chicken out on me. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

What we eat is vaguely Thai: chicken, spicy and succulent, a salad of exotic foliage, red leaves, tiny splinters of purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Gregory. Don’t leave my chickens alone, though, okay?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

If you accidentally stepped in a pile of chicken droppings while collecting eggs one morning, what would you do? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Father Amadi stood outside, beside the wheelbarrows and pigs and people and chickens that went past, because his broad-shouldered form could not fit in the shed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Those heart cells kept beating as if they were still in the chicken’s body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At Red Lobster after his second heart attack, Green would order chicken and Wilson would have salmon—plus a side order of fried shrimp. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Plus, Agnes says the black streak is one of my chickens too—I just don’t know how to go about catching it yet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He feels selling his eggs or chickens in a chain supermarket supports the industrial food industry, the very thing he is trying to get away from. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There is hardly room to step without landing on someone’s foot, a squawking chicken, or a pile of cow dung. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My plan was to slow roast the chicken pieces on a wood fire, and this would keep the chicken from drying out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I stayed in bed for three days, getting up only to go to the bathroom or to heat up another can of chicken noodle soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That mark on the bridge of my nose is a chicken pox scar. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But remember there was a dude who was hitting on you, and you told him there was no chicken?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’d seen my father and brothers put down dozens of dogs over the years—strays mostly, that wouldn’t stay out of the chicken coop. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kansas fried chicken and something with raisins call attention to an open window where the aroma seems to lurk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided Ms. Griegson probably couldn’t steal my chickens in front of everybody, and I didn’t see her around anyway. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The chickens started cackling and flew way up on the hillside. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what would make a chicken unusual, so maybe you’ll send me your catalog and then I can stop wondering about them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

There it will feed the grasses, so the grasses might again feed the cows, the cows the chickens, and so on until the snow falls. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A moment later, he ordered the chicken sandwich and the glass of milk for Franny, and snails, frogs’ legs, and a salad for himself. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Another woman, a younger version of the Matron, stepped out from behind the stall carrying a tray of raw chicken to add to the roaster. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The first stretch was a long pasture; the barn itself, square and red and big, rose in the distance to her right; to her left, farther off, were the chicken houses. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Alone in the village, all is quiet except for the muffled grunts of pigs and cackles of chicken. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom lit a cigarette and smoked slowly as they listened to the chickens ruffling their feathers, clucking sporadically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel any kind of way about eating fried chicken and fries in front of this boy, even as he refuses to look away. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The light was coming in queerly through the frosted glass with the chicken wire embedded in it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would go to the store and get a chicken and it was all cleaned and neat, no feathers or insides, and his mother would bake it in die oven and he would eat it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had rheumatic fever, chicken pox, pneumonia three or four more times, started coughing blood when he was six, was anemic, drowsy all the time, constantly sniffling, weak and miserable, and—everybody thought— dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scooped up the chicken with his free arm. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I rolled behind a pile of baskets filled with rotting chickens now, and to my left, upon the littered curb, a woman and man crouched behind an upturned delivery cart. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise not to give you any more chicken soup,” he said with a laugh. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I laugh, and as I put my grilled chicken in the bowl, Ms. Weber says, “Okay, that’s it. Go see Mrs. Parker.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Gazzaley walks to the kitchen counter to show the text to a handful of people who have come early to eat prosciutto and soy chicken from Whole Foods. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I say, as if she said, Yes, I’d love to come over and hang out and eat chips and giggle about boys and try your momma’s fried chicken and become super good friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

My brothers immediately ran off to check on their pet chickens. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The women cut up chickens, peeled plantains, cubed potatoes, made sofrito, washed dishes, brewed coffee, and tended babies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But Joel knows if he added a lot more chickens to the farm it would throw the system off balance. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That shid—shad—shed broken thing? That used to hold chickens? That thing?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

No swimming hole, no barn, no cows, no chickens, no pigs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

First he went out and picked up Chinese takeout—General Tso’s chicken and shrimp fried rice for everyone. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

His plan was to make chicken sandwiches, wrap them in the pieces of the balloon’s skin, and sell them to office workers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m okay, Gerald. It’s just chicken pox. Let me get some sleep.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Howard notices the way I pick up every little crumb, and she says, “I’ve got enough chicken salad left for another half a sandwich, Marty. Would you like it?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed on from there to a Travel Hall, where they saw the car covered with tiles, and the functioning Rube Goldberg chicken device and the rusting Burma Shave ads on the wall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When cattle, chickens, and other animals eat grass—and not just corn or other grains—they are actually healthier for us to eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t the same here without you. But we knew you’d arrive one day, and then we could be a proper family. Would you like some more chicken?” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I want to froth at the mouth and swear and stomp my feet and break up some chairs and throw chicken soup all over the place. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the coyotes tried to steal our chickens, I knew it was because they were hungry. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then I looked at my bike, looked at the chickens, and wondered what on earth I was going to do now. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s a huge bag of chicken feed back there to rest against,” Uncle D said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We got some fried chicken and some wedgies and some sodas. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She prefers it to chicken soup these days. Dad hasn’t figured that out yet, so I’m the supplier.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When we arrive at Gray’s Beach, I open my bag and pull out the chicken, some string, and scissors. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

"Can you make some chicken for dinner tonight?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

China had developed intensive agriculture based on millets in the north and rice in the south, and with domestic pigs, chickens, and water buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But my chicken salad done won the day. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You may sleep in the shed tonight, my chickens,” said Orddu. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We ate Doña Ana’s rice and beans with stringy fried chicken and waited in the yard, huddled together. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As evening fell, she butchered us a chicken and made us a stew, which she served with a cornmeal mush called ugali. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She offers me a chicken thigh but I’m not hungry. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today the world contains about a billion sheep, a billion pigs, more than a billion cattle, and more than 25 billion chickens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t looked at me since the chicken course. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We were waiting to spy on them back there behind the chicken house when they came. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I appeared, it seemed that all of them turned to me, astonished, like chickens in a farmyard, and stood up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to one of Grandpa feeding the chickens. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The chickens hopping everywhere in the dark were too much for Fern. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t give it back, so Mom got into a big argument with the head of the clan, and the next day we found a chicken with its throat cut on our doorstep. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my bike behind a big bush and leaned it up against the fence, and I took a good look through the row of trees at the chicken coop. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The young man, he remembered, Carl junior, had driven into his yard that morning in a sky blue Bel-Air, scattering chickens before him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brandon was all the way in the back, but it was still like putting a big juicy chicken in front of a cartoon fox. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Look at all these chickens! At least fourteen hens.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A tray holding warm apple juice, Jell-O, ice cream, and cold baked chicken is brought to her side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Folks were wound tighter than a roll of chicken wire lately. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Poly face’s customers know to come after noon on a chicken day, but there’s nothing to prevent them from showing up earlier and watching their dinner being killed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In it lives a certain woman who works in the chicken farm. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to bring myself back as a boy for my parents to welcome with chickens and pigs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the chicken, wrapped in butcher’s paper and trussed with string. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You have never been a chicken. And you have always been meant to fly. Now get up on that stump!’ Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The domovoi stood up to his full height, which was just barely taller than one of the chickens. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Together the four of them walked over to Nike, who was still writhing and flapping her wings in the net like a golden chicken. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dr. King at the dinner table, eating chicken pot pie from our good china plates. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I know we didn’t have the chicken pox, Anita. It’s just a story, okay?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“A surprise! I must thank you for the chicken. I was just frying it. If you would like to come in...” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“First the bees, then the chickens flew off...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“It looks as if we tried to squeeze all the animals into the chicken coop.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I slipped two jars of chicken and rice into my pockets. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When he gets up in the morning first he washes his face out of a dingered-up bowl in the chicken house and puts on his pants and his shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my chickens were all fluffed up together having naps, not doing anything unusual, and no one was paying any attention to them with an ostrich and everything here. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

An instant later Taran heard a loud clucking and squawking from the chicken run. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Ralph described a customer who apologized to his chicken before eating it; she laughed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I didn’t think Frankie was right about the chickens just being our dinner. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see, but I knew the chickens were being unloaded. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She is carrying a basket with an unplucked chicken, four lemons, and a brittle garlic clove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At supper she’s been eating nothing but chicken broth, and I feel bad for her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mister Singer would be there, and afterward they would go out and eat fried chicken. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z