| 单词 | barndoor |
| 例句 | They are currently prohibited from possessing barndoor skates, or bringing them to shore. NOAA considering letting fishermen take endangered skate 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Some states, including barndoor, thorny and smooth skates, are prohibited from commercial harvesting because of concerns about population status. Feds allowing fishermen to catch more skates 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Ireland is a wonderful country for crows and ravens, which hop about the village streets as tame as barndoor fowls. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Quite ordinary chickens satisfy my personal needs, and the egg of the modest barndoor fowl is all I ask at breakfast-time. The Red Hand of Ulster At times a glance down into the clear water will show a score of fish in sight at once, hake, haddock, cod, halibut, dog-fish, and perhaps an immense “barndoor” skate, a yard or more square. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says proposed changes to the skate fishery include an allowance for limited possession of barndoor skates. NOAA considering letting fishermen take endangered skate 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The "poor gentleman of Devon" fresh from London and the court felt as gay as a dusty barndoor fowl might feel beside a lordly peacock. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea And when we left, some of his barndoor fowls were still there to see us off! With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Imagine a great barndoor shutting to, and you have the movement, if you can also imagine the door itself, hinge and all, moving forward also. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Arrival at my quiet Vicarage of a donkey, a cow, two pigs, and a dozen barndoor fowls! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 Bolingbroke is acting the temperate recluse, having nothing for dinner but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barndoor fowl. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series They declared he could not tell the difference between any two sorts of barndoor fowl until he saw them cooked and on the table. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series The poison was then tried on a barndoor fowl, which was not one penny the worse. Historical Mysteries This in turn makes it certain that the pheasants in the bag must have been nearly as tame as barndoor fowl. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin The fowls are of the long-legged Spanish breed, coming to table like trussed ostriches; the plump English barndoor sort are about being introduced. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 We believe that the small birds are sparrows, the larger probably crows; barndoor fowls are the only ones we know definitely. Norse Tales and Sketches So it sometimes happens that, in years of abundant crops, the ox-cart, laden beyond measure with fodder or grain, is too broad or too high to enter the barndoor. The Devil's Pool Mr. A. The old barndoor hen hatched her eggs and bred up her chicks better than the fine prize fowl. More Bywords Do we blame the wanton schoolboy, with a pebble in his hand, all powerless to resist the alluring vastness of a barndoor? The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) The day hardened in colour, the light coming in at the barndoors upwards from the snow instead of downwards from the sky. Tess of the d'Urbervilles It lay a hundred yards from the house, the front barndoor facing the west gable, and was an old and spacious structure, with floors only a trifle above the ground level. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth Not to mention that as we are human beings and not reindeer or barndoor fowl, if two men presumed to fight for us we couldn't decently ever speak to either of them again. Overruled Presently they heard the muffled tread of a horse, and the farmer rode up to the barndoor. Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
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