A worker, left, collects eggs at a hennery in Changzhi. From Wordnik.com. [China's Tainted-Eggs Scare] Reference
Below them are located the barn, wagon house, hennery, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 3, March, 1895] Reference
At left, a worker collected eggs at a hennery in Changzhi, Shanxi province, China, on Monday. From Wordnik.com. [China's Tainted-Eggs Scare] Reference
But one evening a commotion in the hennery informed her that the depredators were again at work. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
China's Tainted-Eggs Scare Reuters A worker collects eggs at a hennery in Changzhi, in China's Shanxi province, on Oct. 27. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong Adds Tests For Melamine in Food] Reference
In the course of the afternoon, when the guests had wandered away from the dreary "front room" to the barn, the hennery, the garden, the orchard, Mrs. Tenney contrived to gather together her special cronies, Mrs. Albright. From Wordnik.com. [Polly and the Princess] Reference
On reaching Memphis, her cattle and fowls made such a lowing and cackling, that the secessionists of the city entered their complaints to the commanding general, who assigned her an island in the Mississippi, opposite the city, where her dairy and hennery were comfortably accommodated. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
One should never speak of hens out of the hennery. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding] Reference
I wish 't Ma Babcock had her in our hennery, up-mounting. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy on a Ranch] Reference
So with the output of the hennery, the apiary, the blacksmith-shop in the place. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Tenements] Reference
Page 341 own, generally with sufficient garden-ground, piggery, hennery, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Social relations in our Southern States,] Reference
Pasture and stable, hennery and dairy, yard and garden, kitchen and parlor, all were under her immediate guidance and control. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
A few things had been added: a hennery, -- called by Dotty "a henpeckery" -- and a graceful white boat, named the Water-Kelpie. From Wordnik.com. [Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple] Reference
"Why didn't you go over and live in James's hennery -- live with James -- hey?" he snapped, with the precision of a pistol cap. From Wordnik.com. [The Tinder-Box] Reference
Railroads are not generally considered picturesque, but from the standpoint of that hennery, and from several other standpoints, I had no fault to find. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
"Some families pass down China and silver as heirlooms; in our family it seems to be farm equipment," Laura McCrae, said later on her blog, urban hennery. com. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference
The madam, with this little attendant, was everywhere - in the barn, in the hennery, in the smokehouse - and she always made trouble with the servants wherever she went. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty years a slave : from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter,] Reference
Nothing was too good for their guests, these or any others, and if the chickens meant for breakfast were pre-empted for this midnight meal, why there were plenty more in the hennery. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy on a Ranch] Reference
The hennery too, and the conservatory, were highly ornamental, distributed as they were about the grounds; -- but it is too early to speak of these, which were not finished till another year. From Wordnik.com. [Bertie's Home or, the Way to be Happy] Reference
By filchings the orchard is robbed of its choicest fruits, the garden despoiled of its luscious products, the hennery stripped of fowls, and the sty of pigs, to satisfy the rapacious gluttony of racial indolence. From Wordnik.com. [The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion] Reference
One after another the family retired, till the old gentleman was left alone, and then, in despair, he resorted to the "authorities" as he termed his books, and read till the inmates of the hennery began to sound the morning call. From Wordnik.com. [In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.] Reference
Page 29 running grape-vines heavy with grapes, the sweet flowers, the hennery with its beautiful young chickens, the chicken coops and houses, the stables and farm buildings, -- all interested him, and he took a sort of proprietary pride in them all. From Wordnik.com. [Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army] Reference
"A wood-shed," she suggested helpfully, "or a nicely swept-out hennery. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Wollaston] Reference
"Gah, that lot's as miserable as a buncha wet chickens in a leaky hennery right now. From Wordnik.com. [Oathbreaker]
Dwaine Jacobs, Philbert Moffat, Romel Gomes, Emerick Williams, Winston St. Hill, Gordon hennery and Anthony Bennett. From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
The madam, with this little attendant, was everywhere ” in the barn, in the hennery, in the smokehouse ” and she always made trouble with the servants wherever she went. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Years a Slave]
18 July 2006 at 11:44 PM ha, mahogandy! in romania, they use a combination of henna and chicken's blood, i think. i believe it's called 'hennery.' or maybe hennesy, i forget. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Telegraph interview] Reference
The doctor laughed -- having heard of Webb's exploit in the night near the hennery -- and said: "I might mention that I have seen 'Sir Mephitis' cabbage, as I suppose I should all it, growing vigorously. From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
He 'paddled off' for the hennery. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"I'm going to the hennery," she said. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
I'll buy and start a hennery to stump the world. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy on a Ranch] Reference
Accordingly, plans were made to build a hennery, creamery, dairy-barn, horse-barn, carriage-house, tool-house, piggery, silos, and slaughter-house. From Wordnik.com. [Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements] Reference
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