He bent over him and attempted to move the hencoop. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference
"Seems to be something like a hencoop back of the house," added. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat on the Flood] Reference
“It takes you a long time, my son, to mend a hencoop,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
We go to the Abbey and the wives sit in the hencoop in their awful hats. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder of Quality]
Ruth Fielding was giving her full attention to the little scene at the hencoop. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
A hencoop, which had been grasped by a couple of passengers, landed them in an exhausted condition upon a rock. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Now, quick as a wink, she snatched the gate open and, with wonderful celerity for one of her age, plunged into the hencoop and slammed to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Sitting down, she buried her head in her apron, and so sat motionless for half an hour, while Jim and Dinah continued their guarded murmurings by the hencoop. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
At night, when about to be sent to bed in an empty hencoop, he generally hid himself under my shawl, and at last never suffered any one but myself to put him to rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829] Reference
I, a boy, stood on the hencoop of a West Indiaman, gazing at the Lizard, that I should be the same creature in feeling and condition, I should have questioned the prophecy. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Captain's visit bore some reference to the hencoop. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference
However I went and hid myself also under a hencoop. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African]
He was still referring to the hencoop, not to any lady. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
Page 114, word "or" inserted into text. (hencoop or any old). From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856] Reference
He was setting on a wrecked hencoop, looking heart-broke but puzzled. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod Stories] Reference
He says he wouldn't let one of us build a hencoop for him, much less a dog kennel. From Wordnik.com. [The Husbands of Edith] Reference
Their families ate the birds, and the hencoop was split into firewood with a hatchet. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Foster] Reference
That's all, ma'am, 'concluded Bob, getting up from his hencoop and making me a bow. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters] Reference
"Well, Tom, this is a bad job," said Bramble to me, taking his seat upon the hencoop aft. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Jack] Reference
I had no more notion of quittin 'the road than a prairie chicken has of breakin' into a hencoop. From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe on the Job] Reference
And young Benjamin, confirmed by a nod from his father, departed for the mysteriously feminine hencoop. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
For a minute she closed her eyes on the dreariness around, and leaned her head on a hencoop at her side. From Wordnik.com. [Janet's Love and Service] Reference
Here and there a spar, or a plank, or a hencoop, or grating floated up, but not one person could we see. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
"Sit down, Mr Wilde," said I, seating myself upon a hencoop, and signing to him to place himself beside me. From Wordnik.com. [Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship] Reference
I ast pardon -- but won't your honour throw a hencoop or any old end of towline to a man as is overboard?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856] Reference
Salem folks have a hencoop and keep hens! five or six hens would overwhelm you with eggs all the year round. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
"You see how much she requires attention;" and he pointed to his wife, who was seated on a hencoop almost fainting. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the "Steadfast" The Young Missionaries in the Pacific] Reference
It was because of that episode that when there was media coverage of a hencoop where a fox was pecked to death, I laughed. From Wordnik.com. [Anorak News] Reference
The soldiers touched their caps, said "Yes, sir," and retired, somewhat hurt, to a strong position on a hencoop in the rear of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865] Reference
"Well, it doesn't matter whether it's a house or a barn or a hencoop. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
They're only brave when it comes to guzzling meat and robbing a hencoop! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution] Reference
'hencoop,' as if there were safety in the presence of anyone connected with you. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Letters of William James II] Reference
"Well, I'll be jiggered!" he exclaimed at last, thumping the hencoop with his fist in his bewilderment; "what's a man to do?. From Wordnik.com. [Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship] Reference
He'd leave them free to go about the ship -- perhaps get out of her before she sinks, on a sofa, or hencoop, or something. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference
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