Sentence examples for a pullet from inspiring English sources

Last April, he won a Pullet Surprise.

One version that Pinker describes goes like this: Eugene O'Neill won a Pullet Surprise.

To the worst of women, Claude Charlotte de Grammont, unfortunately my wife, guilty as she is of all crimes, I leave five-and-forty brass halfpence, which will buy a pullet for her supper.

Speak de word agin' and speak it loud — Blame de lan' let white folks rule it, I'se a lookin fu a pullet, "Rule it" and "pullet" — well, Dunbar had to make a living, too.

-- John George, 1791 To the worst of women, Claude Charlotte de Grammont, unfortunately my wife, guilty as she is of all crimes, I leave five-and-forty brass halfpence, which will buy a pullet for her supper.

In the writing trade, if you win a Pullet Surprise, this is the Heisman Trophy, Get Out Of Jail Free card and Magic Twanger all rolled into one, and though it's awarded by a roomful of large enchiladas at Columbia University in New York, and The Upper West Side Prize would be a more accurate brand name, nonetheless it has juju power all across the land.

In 1661, the evening of Christmas Day itself finds him back in the office – "practising arithmetique alone" – but only after scoffing at home "a mess of brave plum-porridge and a roasted pullet for dinner; and I sent for a mince-pie abroad".

Nine years ago, for example, he received a letter from someone he'd sold land to: Michael Gidley, a frustrated pullet farm manager who wanted to start an egg company and needed a backer.

The New Yorker, December 31 , 1984P. 28 Colonel Huggins, retired from the U.S. Army, was awakened by the mournful clucking of a leghorn pullet, the pet of children who lived in a nearby trailer.

By Wright Morris The New Yorker, December 31 , 1984P. 28 Colonel Huggins, retired from the U.S. Army, was awakened by the mournful clucking of a leghorn pullet, the pet of children who lived in a nearby trailer.

But on the day after the winter solstice, in time with the returning sun, we found a brown pullet egg, still warm, in the hay below the nest boxes.