In addition dead fowl were left in cages with the living, sometimes long enough for the birds to begin to decompose.

His hands grasped the table top in a vice-like grip, his eyes were crossed and his head hung back upon his neck like that of a dead fowl in a butcher's window.

As Schama says, "The iconography of Dutch genre painting has detected erotic undertones in ostensibly humdrum objects like fire tongs, dead fowl or candlesticks."

I would call the case differently if the agreement provided that the district judge would review the award by flipping a coin or studying the entrails of a dead fowl.

A striking drypoint etching by Mr. Barnet, "Guinea Hens" shows dead fowl as jagged, with talons like spikes and the edges of their feathers as sharp as blades.

Some of the Mazitu, who were great thieves, stole those dead fowls, Baas.

At the latter place is a 'Cookmaid with dead fowls,' painted 'with great nature,' and a much-admired portrait of himself.

The stallkeeper held the chicken firmly by the neck and taking a knife from his belt cut its head offin one movement and passed the dead fowl over to the boy.

His breath smelled of tobacco and his knees were like the bony carcases of dead fowl but when you suddenly found yourself in the wilderness you embraced any Man Friday who happened along.

Those who were of farming stock could turn a living hen into a dead fowl without too many qualms, but the rabbits, furry and rather beautiful, were another matter.