Basil! he never could understand why she could not climb trees as well as he and Susan D. D.ar Basil! dearest of boys! how nice he looked in his new blue suit; and who would mend the first "barndoor" that he tore in jacket or trousers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fernley House] Reference

December 30, 2005 at 5: 41 pm closing the barndoor too late†¦.    From Wordnik.com.  [Misunderestiquote « BuzzMachine] Reference

It was "only" the 3rd largest barndoor captured during the week of my stay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field & Stream] Reference

And when we left, some of his barndoor fowls were still there to see us off!.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

There is not much apparent resemblance between a barndoor Fowl and the Dog who protects the farm-yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

No wonder if the famished soldiers could not quite see the equity of the arrangement which left him at liberty to hunt for their lives but would not allow them to lay a finger on one of his barndoor fowls.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

The subordinate figures on the canvas have accordingly an interest greater than what arises from their commonplace individualities and their meagre part in the action -- like barndoor fowls pecking and clucking beside larger bipeds in a walled yard steeped in sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference

Never had there been such slaughtering of capons, and fat geese, and barndoor fowls; never such boiling of “reested” hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails — delicacies little known to the present generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

If a 3-light kit, would like barndoor/gel-typ accessory kit.    From Wordnik.com.  [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference

There is not much apparent resemblance between a barndoor Fowl and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

The poison was then tried on a barndoor fowl, which was not one penny the worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Mysteries] Reference

Arrival at my quiet Vicarage of a donkey, a cow, two pigs, and a dozen barndoor fowls!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893] Reference

Presently they heard the muffled tread of a horse, and the farmer rode up to the barndoor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference

Never had there been such slaughtering of capons, and fat geese, and barndoor fowls; never such boiling of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

We believe that the small birds are sparrows, the larger probably crows; barndoor fowls are the only ones we know definitely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norse Tales and Sketches] Reference

Bolingbroke is acting the temperate recluse, having nothing for dinner but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barndoor fowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series] Reference

They declared he could not tell the difference between any two sorts of barndoor fowl until he saw them cooked and on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference

The light features a removable 45-degree rotatable four-leaf barndoor and a PowerBase connection that makes it easy to change the fixture's optic sets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadcast Engineering RSS Feed] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overruled] Reference

When I recovered my presence of mind a little, I took the locket out of the bit of paper (the locket indeed! it was as big as a barndoor padlock), and slowly put it into my shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference

"And the other fella there, with ears like the barndoor in a wind, he's jest nacherally a horn-toad that likes whiskey and would jest as soon knife his mother as he would eat a rattlesnake for supper, eh?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ridin' Kid from Powder River] Reference

Her plans were not now all concrete -- they glowed a little, though dimly, for her memory held no great store, and her imagination was the imagination of Walland Marsh, as a barndoor fowl to the birds that fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joanna Godden] Reference

Barentin, Triumvirate and Company, imagine that they could scatter six hundred National Deputies, big with a National Constitution, like as much barndoor poultry, big with next to nothing, -- by the white or black rod of a Supreme Usher?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

A facsimile of our barndoor game-cock, for I had imagined that he would have the velvety black wing starred with cream-coloured eyes, which we associate with the "jungle-cock wing" of salmon flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference

Talk about closing the barndoor too late ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Misunderestiquote « BuzzMachine] Reference

Guinea in search of a barndoor fowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phyllis of Philistia] Reference

You can hit him as easy as a barndoor, for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference

I am as harmless as a barndoor fowl. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.] Reference