"Cock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was nobody to be seen if we hadn't been in a box. Of course no one comes there but stately old farmers and their smart daughters. I saw one with a Gainsborough hat, and a bunch of cock's feathers, with a scarlet cactus cocking ...
— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... Humphrys, bailiff, John Allen, John Parteridge, William Aitkins, Joseph Rogers, Thomas Cock, John Berry, William Hutton, Thomas Cheek Lea, Durant ...
— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton
... heart, and will do his work magnificently. 'No matter what I do it on, so that my craft be honorably shown. Anything will do; a Sibyl, a skull, a Madonna and Christ, a hat and feather, an Adam, an Eve, a cock, a sparrow, a lion with two tails, a pig with five legs,—anything will do for me. But see if I don't show you what engraving is, be my subject ...
— Ariadne Florentina - Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving • John Ruskin
... great travel from ocean to ocean, had given much impetus to business as well as to local amusements. For the latter, Sunday was the ideal day, when bull and cock fights secured the attendance of the elite, and the humble, the priest ...
— Shadow and Light - An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century • Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
... beyond the cock's first crow In dreams they walk where windflowers blow; Late do they dream, and liker grow To ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield
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