Nor a whiner or pouter like so many who seem to post. From Wordnik.com. [Kucinich Drops Out of White House Race] Reference
She was a pouter, a thrower of chess pieces, a disengager. From Wordnik.com. [Letters Home] Reference
He stroked the beard down smoothly over his pouter-pigeon chest. From Wordnik.com. [The Cosmic Engineer]
The bulging chest often indicates no more than pouter-pigeon bluff temporarily put on. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
He shuffled his feet and tucked his head like a shy pouter pigeon, declining to answer. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
Madame Celina's already approved the layouts, and even Harrison's pleased as a pouter pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [Give Us Forever]
Barksdale puffed out the chest of his starched white shirt till he looked like a pouter pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
Mean Mainstream Media - another pouter who won't take responsibility for their actions. rednekhank. From Wordnik.com. [Sanford lashes out at the media] Reference
The picture of the Unks in Rome for his ordination, puffing out their proud chests like pouter pigeons. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
So much water had fallen in it that it was swelling up like a pouter pigeon, or like the bowl that held the. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
He would strut about the campus as proudly as a pouter-pigeon, never realizing, apparently, that we were laughing at him. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
Let us recognize it as an exquisite creation of art, not of nature, as wonderful as the pouter pigeon or the saffron rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
I approached the child and tapped her on the shoulder, only to discover that said pouter was completely mummified and stuffed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference
Many birds have the oesophagus or the skin of the neck more or less dilatable, but in no known bird is it so dilatable as in the pouter pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Then, I used to keep poets at my expense, and I used to buy pictures and books of the Jews, geese of the best breeds, and pouter-pigeons of pure blood. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character] Reference
He pleaded "not guilty," and strutted on the lawn with his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat and his suspected breast as much in evidence as a pouter pigeon's. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
The dumpy little figure, swelling like a pouter pigeon's, was so irresistibly ludicrous that Shelby forgot his troubles and threw back his head in a gust of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Again, the wild rock pigeon seems to be the ancestral form from which the fantail and pouter and carrier-pigeon with their diverse characters have taken their origin. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
My mother, alas, had put on much more than the original four kilos she had once gone to Bagnio to lose; she seemed, in fact, to be taking on pouter-pigeon dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
After all, this is the way they operated when Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay were strutting around, puffed up like pouter pigeons, so proud that they have vanquished the foe. From Wordnik.com. [A Simple Question] Reference
Hey, there he is again, America's most popular pouter, brought to you by the media industrial complex that built him up, tore him down, and is rebuilding what they tore down. From Wordnik.com. [Hey Tiger: Sell Me Shoes, Not Redemption] Reference
Judge Payderson came in after a time, accompanied by his undersized but stout court attendant, who looked more like a pouter-pigeon than a human being; and as they came, Bailiff. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
He calls one of his paramours his "little powder pigeon," or so I thought, until I looked it up years ago and found out that the pigeons in question were actually pouter pigeons. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-06] Reference
"Do you see that pouter pigeon?" said one to the other. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
He didn't play well the last game, but he's not a pouter. From Wordnik.com. [Red Raiders] Reference
"I declare to goodness, Phoebe Wise, folks'll think you're vain as a pouter pigeon.". From Wordnik.com. [The Panchronicon] Reference
To give a simple illustration: the fantail and pouter pigeons are both descended from the rock pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
In a pouter, the furcula had not been lengthened proportionally with the increased length of the body. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
We loose the pouter, the tumbler is forgot, and we get slaty-gray men and women ruled by ruffed Jacobins. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
What does Sadie do but pass her out the glad hand and coo away, like a pouter pigeon on a cornice, about being tickled to see her again. From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe] Reference
They get such dreadful attacks of mumps, their throats being distended by the fish, which are alive, when the birds seem as if they were pouter pigeons. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Gordon, Volume I] Reference
Eric entertained his father with the exploits of his favorite ferret, and the prodigious feats of prowess performed by a certain pouter-pigeon of rare lineage. From Wordnik.com. [The Children of Wilton Chase] Reference
What further proof is needed? oldghost used to be just a pouter on one side of these debates, but today he just about assassinated any credibility he could have. From Wordnik.com. [NY Daily News] Reference
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