The man who lost his life against a henroost, is in the same pickle with him who lost his life against a fortified place of the first order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference

As I write, the bilious countenance of a culprit is peeping through the iron grates of a window, who, may be, is atoning for having invaded a henroost or bagged an unsuspecting pig.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The cold gray light of early dawn had given place to saffron, and the first drowsy challenge from the henroost had been shrilly answered from far and near, when old man Jerry awoke from his nap in the chimney corner, and, finding himself chilled through all his old, rheumatic bones, bent over the dying embers, pushed together the blackened and half-burned "chunks," and blew them until they glowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plantation Sketches] Reference

Bradshaw was to have privileges which were refused to a boy who had robbed a henroost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference

Your goin 'over there is the best thing for the -- the henroost that ever was or ever will be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Harbor] Reference

"You see, somebody might lift them from the henroost before you had a chance to cook them," he went on soberly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds] Reference

Let it suffice to say, Ichabod stole forth with the air of one who had been sacking a henroost, rather than a fair lady's heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People] Reference

The world forgives him for debauching another man's wife, but would never have forgiven him had he raided the same man's henroost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference

If the mink met a muskrat or a rabbit in his travels, or came upon a grouse, or quail, or a farmer's henroost, he had the supper he was in quest of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers] Reference

You may often see their watchfires glimmering in the night; and be sure that where you do, there are twisted necks and vacant nests in many a neighbouring henroost. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852] Reference

The bear and the wolf burst into the cattle-sheds and devoured all the cows and sheep, the fox feasted in the henroost, while the hare had the free run of the oatfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Norway] Reference

They allows he's about the size of a yearlin 'calf; an' the way he pulls down sech feeble people as sheep or lays desolate some he'pless henroost don't bother him a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolfville Nights] Reference

Women with a great deal of money and no experience opened "hospitals" that were about as fit for the reception and treatment of wounded men as a henroost is capable of housing an eagle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights] Reference

We were greeted, on reaching the gate, not by a warder, but by the growl and bark of a ferocious mastiff, who would have been more in keeping at his post near a henroost, than at the portal of a princely castle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France]

Arrived at the henroost (your neighbor's, not your own), you light a match and hold it under first one and then another pullet's nose until they are willing to go into that bag without making any trouble about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches New and Old] Reference

Where will you find a poultry-yard like this -- mulberry-trees to shade you, a whitewashed henroost, a magnificent dunghill, worms and corn everywhere, brothers that love you, and three great dogs to guard you from the foxes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laboulaye's Fairy Book] Reference

The entrance to the rock cave is still shown, at the mouth of Kaliuwaa valley, where Kamapuaa's grandmother shut up her chickens at night, and it was for robbing his uncle's henroost that this rascally pig-god was chased away from Oahu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai] Reference

They arose in a gradual scale, from the henroost to the stable; and with such ability were they planned and executed, that the people, who in every instance identified Meehan and his brother with them, began to believe and hint that, in consequence of their compact with the devil, they had power to render themselves invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference

Latimer was moderately fond of animals, and particularly interested in small livestock rearing from the economic point of view; in fact, one of the pamphlets on which he was at that moment engaged warmly advocated the further development of the pig and poultry industry in our rural districts; but he was pardonably unwilling to share even a commodious bedroom with samples of henroost and stye products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts and Super-Beasts] Reference

A henroost, he made a sudden exit, and hurried away out of college to the night school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

Let it suffice to say, Ichabod stole forth with the air of one who had been sacking a henroost, rather than a fair lady’s heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

"The cockerels, fired by this bold advice, betook themselves at once to the henroost with the courage of young lions; and after a short but animated discussion, persuaded the whole of the cocks and hens to run away and to take Flaps as protector of the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men] Reference

O'MADDEN BURKE: Free fox in a free henroost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

"Oh, what a row there was in the henroost!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men] Reference

O’MADDEN BURKE: Free fox in a free henroost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

| henroost/hen-roost, outbuildings/out-buildings, |.    From Wordnik.com.  [Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers] Reference