HENS in Classic Quotes

1  Nine hens had died in the meantime.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

2  When the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

3  To that horror we all must come--cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

4  "Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our mash," said one of the hens.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II

5  Even the hens and ducks came, and were at pains not to tread on the chalk marks.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V

6  For five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

7  Even the ducks and hens toiled to and fro all day in the sun, carrying tiny wisps of hay in their beaks.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III

8  Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

9  There was no wastage whatever; the hens and ducks with their sharp eyes had gathered up the very last stalk.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III

10  One Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

11  The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI

12  The hens, said Napoleon, should welcome this sacrifice as their own special contribution towards the building of the windmill.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI

13  It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III

14  He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII

15  But everyone worked according to his capacity The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III

16  The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

17  The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon's orders.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII