... “I was saying,” continued Baisemeaux, “that a good-sized fowl costs me a franc and a half, and that a fine fish costs me four or five francs...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... “Those d—d brutes are trussing me like a fowl,” he murmured with irrepressible gaiety at the last...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
..." This was too tempting an offer, so we went, and he had a fowl ready in his hand to present, also a basket of manioc-meal, and a calabash of mead...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...One of my men, Loyanke, went off to the village, brought the lady who had presented the fowl to identify it, and then pointed to the hut in which it was hidden...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... She then requested us to wait an hour or two till she could get ready a present of meal, manioc roots, ground-nuts, and a fowl...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...They were delighted with the large pieces we gave, though only about two feet long, for a fowl and a basket of upward of 20 lbs...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Their messenger returned with a basket of corn, a fowl, and a few strings of beads, a thank-offering to them for having killed it...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Simba sent a handsome present of food, a goat, eggs, and a fowl, beans,split rice, dura, and sesame...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The fowl waited for no further intimations of troublous times, but fled squawking...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
..." He began well; cooked a fowl, boiled some eggs, and made tea; after which he cleared out a hut that was declared très logeable, and found a native couch resembling the Egyptian kafas...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
... Others refuse the flesh of a fowl until it has been tasted by a woman...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...The Guinea fowl, like the African elephant, remains wild...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
..." The Guinea fowl may have been the "Afraa avis;"but that was a dear luxury amongst the Romans, though the Greek meleagris was cheap...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...This is invariably the price of a fowl, when money is offered; but a head of tobacco or a couple of fish-hooks would be preferred...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...It was estimated that two hundred thousandwild fowl were annually slaughtered there...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...It was partial to ants and, other insects, and wasalways eager for milk or the bone of a fowl...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
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