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1. " Her remedy was to take the hens from their nests and place them in a cage that was hung from the rafters of a "broody hen shed." The theory, as I recall, was..."

Source:   Winckler, Suzanne,SerVaas, Cory. "A SAVAGE LIFE" Saturday Evening Post 271.4 July 1 1999: 44 Google This

2. " It's an elephant-bird!" Dr. Seuss here utterly rejects, indeed never so much as considers any notion that such a strange, unforseen form of life might be monstrous,..."

Source:   WOLOSKY, SHIRA. "Democracy in America: By Dr. Seuss" Southwest Review 85.2 Mar. 22 2000: 167 Google This

3. " They are known for being good brooders and protective mothers, so many raisers let their ducks do the setting rather than artificially incubating the eggs (see "Broody Muscovies," Page 74)."

Source:   Langlois, Cherie. "Marvelous Muscovies: fun, easy to care for and a great source of meat, Muscovy ducks also can help control flies and other pests on your homestead" Mother Earth News .206 Oct. 1 2004: 71-78 Google This

4. " Loss of grassland habitat, primarily to agricultural practices, probably increases vulnerability of hens and their eggs to depredation by badgers because nests are concentrated in remaining fragmented grassland areas."

Source:   Sovada, Marsha A.,Roaldson, Jon M.,Sargeant, Alan B. "Foods of American Badgers in West-central Minnesota and Southeastern North Dakota During the Duck Nesting Season" American Midland Naturalist 142.2 Oct. 1 1999: 410

5. " Researchers have decoded how one cuckoo elicits the same feeding behavior as a nestful of hatchlings."

Source:   . "Cuckoos beg doggedly to trick hosts" Science News 155.10 Mar. 6 1999: 158-159 Google This

6. "... and a monstrous, 1950s captive-bolt humane killer, to say nothing of the sheep, the pigs, the hens and the gigantic, intimidating cleaver."

Source:   Morton, Tom. "Alas, poor Bluebell - she was delicious" New Statesman (1996) 128.4460 Nov. 1 1999: 35 Google This

7. "... an inventive and committed scientist in this quest. * What words would you use to describe how the giant squid seems to you? (evaluating information) Answers will vary but may include scary, fascinating, monstrous, enormous, fierce, mysterious. ..."

Source:   Grann, David. "Searching for sea monsters: miles below the ocean's surface, there lurks a massive and terrifying creature: the giant squid. No scientist has ever seen one alive, but one man is determined to reveal its amazing secrets" Storyworks 12.4 Jan. 1 2005: 24-31

8. " In the absence of all these posthumous ordeals, reward and punishment would be utterly mechanical: goodness moves up, badness moves down, all with a monstrous inexorability."

Source:   Levenson, Jon D. "Kaddish" Commentary 106.6 Dec. 1 1998: 74-75

9. " In the absence of all these posthumous ordeals, reward and punishment would be utterly mechanical: goodness moves up, badness moves down, all with a monstrous inexorability."

Source:   Levenson, Jon D. "Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, andMourn as a Jew" Commentary 106.6 Dec. 1 1998: 74-75 Google This

10. " The imaginary Monstrous Races, may be defined as malformed, malcontented and misbehaving creatures believed to inhabit the periphery of the known world, primarily India, Ethiopia, and the far North."

Source:   Strickland, Debra Higgs. "MONSTERS AND CHRISTIAN ENEMIES" History Today 50.2 Feb. 1 2000: 45 Google This

11. " It may seem paradoxical to say that Durer's monsters within religious scenes are meant seriously, whereas these other monstrous creatures, shown in combination with provocative..."

Source:   Emison, Patricia. "Truth and Bizzarria in an Engraving of Lo stregozzo" Art Bulletin 81.4 Dec. 1 1999: 623 Google This

12. " The story is told in a series of letters by Eva Khatchadourian, a successful travel guide publisher ambivalent about motherhood, who has been persuaded by her broody husband to have a child."

Source:   Page, Benedicte. "A rotten bond: Lionel Shriver has written a disturbing novel about a mother / son relationship" Bookseller .5151 Oct. 22 2004: 25-26 Google This

13. " She's testing should she stay or go, what any reasonable creature would, (when foxes raid hen-houses for no other cause than appetite,..."

Source:   Coleman, Earl. "Pathetic Fallacy" Midwest Quarterly 46.1 Sept. 22 2004: 51-52 Google This

14. " Doesn't Sarah feel broody, Gordon?' Aaaaarghhh!" He stamps on the broken crockery. "Babies?"

Source:   . "The Journal OF Lynton Charles" New Statesman (1996) 128.4464 Nov. 29 1999: 4 Google This

15. "... of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale," he speculated."

Source:   MONASTERSKY, RICHARD. "The Whale's Tale" Science News 156.19 Nov. 6 1999: 296 Google This

16. " It is home of the 4,000-year-old Palace of Knossos and the Labyrinth, which, according to Greek myth, was built to house the Minotaur, a monstrous creature with the head of a man and the body of a bull."

Source:   Halper, Stefan,Brown, Lezlee. "Ancient, ageless Crete" Washington Times June 14 1998: 1 Google This

17. " His only offspring is his creature, a monstrous man-child who disappears into inhuman isolation and whose delicate sensibility turns to cruelty as his sufferings transpose Rousseau's noble savage into a dark key."

Source:   Pesic, Peter. "The bell & the buzzer: on the meaning of science" Daedalus 132.4 Sept. 22 2003: 35-45 Google This

18. " The outstanding characteristics of the bodies of each of the monstrous creatures: feet, eye (s), ears, and mouths, are figuratively transferred to the Kaiser when the creatures are presented to him, signifying his rehabilitation as well, and communication is restored..."

Source:   JOHNSON, SIDNEY M. "FREMDES WAHRNEHMEN--FREMDES WAHRNEHMEN. STUDIEN ZUR GESCHICHTEDER WAHRNEHMUNG UND ZUR BEGEGNUNG VON KULTUREN IN MITTELALTER UND FRUHERNEUZEIT" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98.3 July 1 1999: 411 Google This

19. " Similarly, the second part of the word, li>endur, can mean either "gliders" or "sufferers." So, in the context of the saga, the most likely translation is something like "succubi sufferers." Eyrbyggja Saga is a broody tale of many marvels, and Hjalmarsson, pondering..."

Source:   . "Marli>endur" World Literature Today 73.4 Sept. 22 1999: 758 Google This

20. "... political power ("There's always a bigger fish," Qui-Gon remarks as various monstrous creatures pursue and devour one another), is so prolonged and elaborated that the metaphoric comment becomes overwhelmed by the special effects."

Source:   Lancashire, Anne. "The Phantom Menace: Repetition, Variation, Integration" Film Criticism 24.3 Mar. 22 2000: 23 Google This

21. " If Stella's early works were so minimal and inexpressive as to appear mechanical, the final impression here, for better or worse, was of objects so big and chaotic that they seemed, well, mechanical--but also monstrous."

Source:   SIEGEL, KATY. "FRANK STELLA" Artforum International 38.8 Apr. 1 2000: 137 Google This

22. "... the mind. "Unlike a life at home, which makes ever more particular and precious the places and creatures of the world," Berry argues, "the careerist's life generalizes the world, reducing its abundant and comely diversity to `raw materials'" (Home Economics 51)."

Source:   COOK, RUFUS. "The Art of Uncertainty: Cultural Displacement and the Devaluation of the World" CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 41.3 Mar. 22 2000: 227

23. " PUBLIC OPINION Poor Creatures In Shanghai as elsewhere in the world, beggars were commonly regarded as the utterly destitute."

Source:   Lu, Hanchao. "BECOMING URBAN: MENDICANCY AND VAGRANTS IN MODERN SHANGHAI" Journal of Social History 33.1 Sept. 22 1999: 7 Google This

24. " Jeanneret's magnificent analyses turn about da Vinci's notes and drawings of the effects of wind and water, elements that visibly release monstrous forces, and that at once fascinate and inspire fear."

Source:   Conley, Tom. "Les trois mondes" Renaissance Quarterly v51.n3 Sept. 22 1998: 934-942 Google This

25. " Jeanneret's magnificent analyses turn about da Vinci's notes and drawings of the effects of wind and water, elements that visibly release monstrous forces, and that at once fascinate and inspire fear."

Source:   Conley, Tom. "Recette veritable, par laquelle tous les hommes de la Francepourront apprendre a multiplier et augmenter leurs tresors" Renaissance Quarterly v51.n3 Sept. 22 1998: 934-942 Google This

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