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We had started with a broody hen and fifteen fertile eggs, and a pair of rabbits.
Habíamos empezado con una gallina clueca y quince huevos fértiles, y un par de conejos.
And don’t flap your arms because in all those feathers you look like a broody hen.
No aletees con los brazos porque con tantas plumas pareces una gallina clueca.
I'll keep him under my wing like an' old broody hen, so ye can have a wee bit of fun."
Lo mantendré bajo mi ala como una vieja gallina clueca.
He found Ernie and he found ‘Crack,’ squatting there, he says, like a great broody hen.
Encontró a Ernie y encontró al Caballito, sentado allí, dice, como una gran gallina clueca.
Thomas Peerless over in Bad Ass pinched an egg and put it under a broody hen, miss.
Thomas Miopón de Culo de Mal Asiento robó un huevo y lo puso debajo de una gallina clueca, señorita.
In the low farmhouses squatting on their crofts like broody hens, all the little window-shutters were swinging open.
Las granjas bajas, agachadas como gallinas cluecas, adheridas firmemente a la tierra de sus cercados, abrieron los postigos de sus ventanitas.
Another of the accused, a coarse woman, not unlike a fat broody hen but with a spiteful tongue, was visibly worked up.
-profirió, visiblemente exaltada, otra de las acusadas, una mujer grosera, con un aspecto de apacible gallina clueca y al mismo tiempo una lengua viperina.
Anyone who'd hatched eggs under a broody hen knew that ducklings could be made to think they were chicks, and poor William the buzzard was a case in point.
Cualquiera que hubiera incubado huevos debajo de una gallina clueca sabía que se podía hacer creer a los patitos que eran pollitos, y el pobre William el águila ratonera era un botón de muestra.
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