"Setting hen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the other horses to him in order to drag him out, but as they were saddle-horses, and had never set shoulder to a collar in their lives, they refused to pull even enough to take the proverbial setting hen ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland
... and go all over the United States and be read by no one. I could enter the field of letters anywhere and attract attention, but when it comes to setting a hen I feel that I am not worthy. I never feel my utter unworthiness as I do in the presence of a setting hen. ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye |
