1.   His arms are wrapped in a white winding cloth, and the claws of a dead chicken hang near his head.

2.   The first time I met this creature she was an unlettered half-caste peasant who smelt of stale sweat and dead chickens.

3.   And the dead chickens, sometimes enough to fill the bed of his pickup four times over, had to be disposed of each day.

4.   Around him, dead chickens littered the cement where a couple of dogs snored indifferently.

5.   Black plastic bags filled with dead chickens were piled by the open-air entrance to the sour-smelling Tai Fong Sing Lan chicken wholesalers.

6.   A few have suggested that zoologists troll the lake with lines laden with dead chickens.

7.   Aircraft engines are also designed to withstand bird strikes, a capability that manufacturers such as GE ensure by firing dead chickens into operating test engines.

8.   First, Hart said, the dead chicken was fitted snugly into a plastic cylinder called a sabot, which was inserted into the gun barrel.

9.   How does a Harvard guy connect with a guy who can speak at length about a dead chicken?

10.   I worked for editors who would have hung me out like a dead chicken if I had tried.