Houdan

The crested ornamental bird, called a Houdan chicken after the

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With Contador competing at the Tour of Murcia and organizers including the longest time trial since 1968 — a 27km effort next Friday — the 1,307km epic from Houdan to the west of Paris to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice is wide open.

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A small gray-furred boy, a Houdan, was strumming a banjo at one of the piers.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

A Houdan pushing a levitated cart full of glistening silk scarves and hairbrushes eyed him with mild interest.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

There was a scattering of the faithful -- Terrans, mostly, a few Houdan, and a Boduad or two in the back rows, kneeling, and off in their own world.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

Dieppe, in Paris, in Saint-Gratien, in Brie, and in Beauce, hunting for a certain country that I had in mind, and I think that I have found it at last in the neighborhood of Houdan.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

I spent the month of August in wandering about, for I was in Dieppe, in Paris, in Saint-Gratien, in Brie, and in Beauce, hunting for a certain country that I had in mind, and I think that I have found it at last in the neighborhood of Houdan.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

The Houdan hen was never drawn into the cult of Sredni Vashtar.

The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893

"It is not good for him to be pottering down there in all weathers," she promptly decided, and at breakfast one morning she announced that the Houdan hen had been sold and taken away overnight.

The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893

In one corner lived a ragged-plumaged Houdan hen, on which the boy lavished an affection that had scarcely another outlet.

The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893