Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...look down upon one from the walls are inspiring, - all of them, from the driest, pickled old Puritan, to the gallant young Colonel who fell at Wagner. There is richness in that gorgeous window, - but stop! the national bird done in colored glass, and holding his wings like a fowl in distress, is decidedly out of place there, if a Freshman might venture an opinion; he should have been all blue glass. Patriotic emblems are excellent in their proper place, but they should not be mingled with the tracery of a mediaeval architecture. Would it not have been better...
...vicinity of the town with quail, while myriads of black ducks revelling in this paradise of lakes were sure to afford the hunter excellent sport. If this easy game should cloy on the overfed appetite of the sportsman, and he should sigh for a crack at the more hardy fowl which brave the storms of our rock-bound coast, the Gurnet and Mamamet points would afford the desired opportunity, where "thousands of millions" of birds of passage daily pass...
...outspoke another fowl...
When fish and fowl could reason...