"Clucking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Juliana left off clucking, and smiled sarcastically. "She isn't breakin' her heart after you, Mr. Brian, at any rate," she remarked. "She wasn't long in getting over ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... mistake is not likely to be made again. After a while one gets to know the hens personally, and to know the noise which means that they have just laid. Sometimes, if a hen is going to lay just as you come to her nest, she will run off clucking and screaming and lay the ...
— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... morning about eight, to find her gone, but as I was dressing by the window I saw her below me in the garden, busy with some hens that were clucking all ...
— Nancy Stair - A Novel • Elinor Macartney Lane
... four hens of the ridiculously small native breed. These rode atop the loads: their feet were tied to the cords and there they swayed and teetered and balanced all day long, apparently quite happy and interested. At each new camp site they were released and went scratching and clucking around among the tents. They lent our temporary quarters quite a settled air of domesticity. We named the cocks Gaston and Alphonse and somehow it was rather fine, in the blackness before dawn, to hear these little birds crowing stout-heartedly against the great African wilderness. Neither ...
— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White
... What a clucking of surprise there would be when it was told that not from any hothouse whatever, but from the depths of the ocean came the full, ...
— Lord Dolphin • Harriet A. Cheever
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