Sentence examples for leghorn from inspiring English sources

In September it launched services from Catania to Leghorn, well north of Rome.

Two of these were red junglefowl from a local zoo (all domestic chickens were originally bred from red junglefowl at least 5,000 years ago); two were white leghorn chickens (a modern farmyard variety).

After the Shelleys and Edward and Jane Williams moved to Lerici, Shelley began "The Triumph of Life," a dark fragment on which he was at work until he sailed to Leghorn to welcome his friend Leigh Hunt, who had arrived to edit a periodical called The Liberal.

With his small bright eyes like a bird's, his bony sharp face, red complexion, stiff white hair and military mustache, and self-important strutting air, the Major irresistibly recalls to mind a white leghorn cockerel on the brink of his first crow.

"Get up, son, you're on the ground!" Mingus at his happiest called Dylan "son" in a booming voice, another quotation, half Redd Foxx, half Foghorn Leghorn.

His Sparrow is a fine drink, but the name may be arguable — it's one brawny cocktail, far more Foghorn Leghorn than Tweety-like.

Thirty years of selection for increased egg production in a flock of White Leghorn chickens increased the average yearly output of a hen from 125.6 to 249.6 eggs.

The single-comb White Leghorn, a Mediterranean breed widely used throughout the global egg industry, is a prolific layer that quickly reaches sexual maturity.

Other characters, some invented and some reinterpreted, arrived, including Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety and Sylvester, Pepe LePew, Foghorn Leghorn, the Roadrunner, and Wile E. Coyote.

(The combs themselves are recognizable, with spiky crenellations that make one imagine Foghorn Leghorn wildly clutching his scalp).

Wiesner's private researches into disarmament took him out of the country several times, and he feels that one of his most informative excursions was a visit he made to Russia in March , 1960 at the invitation of the Soviet Acadamy of Sciences; he was accompanied by Richard Leghorn, president of the Itek Corporation, a Mass.