Noun : The count is the weathercock of the jet set. From Dictionary.com.
A bad look out, Tomkins, said he, if that rascally old weathercock is to be trusted, the wind's got into the wrong quarter again, and we shall have more rain. From Wordnik.com. [Parables From Nature] Reference
Louis Blanc, a sectarian; Ledru-Rollin, a weathercock. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
What vane? what weathercock? did you ever hear better?. From Wordnik.com. [Love’s Labour ’s Lost] Reference
Joints be a true weathercock enough when past three-score. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
Rubbing his eyes, he told her to go and look at the weathercock. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
This weathercock was considered by the Moslems of Granada a portentous talisman. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
"Fashion that weathercock," implying that she veers about with every puff of wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
‘That?’ said the agent, sticking his toothpick into the weathercock on the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
“Someone has been throwing stones at the weathercock lately,” remarked Throstle. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
On looking upwards I beheld him hanging by his bridle to the weathercock of the steeple. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
Sharpe looked up at the weathercock on the stable roof and saw the wind had backed southerly. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
Although Nietzsche had glimpsed the weathercock of evolution, an agnostic blemish dragged it. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy reconciles Nietzsche and William James] Reference
This monument is intended as a weathercock to crown the new dome of the Capitol at Washington. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
I know the voice of Fame to be a mere weathercock, unstable as Water and fleeting as a Shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 9 December 1781] Reference
Owing to our respect for Mary's white hairs, the dinner-hour was as changeable as a weathercock. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
It is at least the reverse of intellectual; it is a mere phrase from a steeple or a weathercock. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Knox himself strongly resembling in attitude the dragon weathercock on Bow steeple painted black. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832] Reference
Mr Fish is a weathercock of a classical kind, he has moved from vague left to fiercer right with age. From Wordnik.com. [Profession 2009: Fishing] Reference
The weathercock on a little village steeple on the horizon was sparkling as if it were made of solid gold. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
‘I think the twirling of the weathercock on the roof bodes ill,’ said he; ‘we shall have a storm.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Fairy Book] Reference
But once, on regaining the open, some one noticed that a weathercock had been struck off one of the gables. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
Charles II.: a posture master climbed up Grantham steeple, and then stood on his head upon the weathercock. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829] Reference
In spite of all the veerings and weathercock variations of his political life, Regato was at heart a Liberal. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Now the man who has his heart on his sleeve, and a good whirling weathercock of a brain, who reckons his life as. From Wordnik.com. [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference
In effect it was not long after this meddling with the portentous weathercock that the following event occurred. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
The boss gets mad at that, and rights up the weathercock, and renames the camp Ophir, and you don't work no more pilgrims. From Wordnik.com. [The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock] Reference
Beyond it stood a weathercock topped with a collection of whirring instrumentation-anemometer, thermometer, barometer, cyclonometer. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
When the stranger an 'pilgrim comes in, says he first off:' Why'n snakes they got that weathercock horse upside down -- why? 'says he. From Wordnik.com. [The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock] Reference
On either side of it were narrow windows, one giving out on the garden and the other giving on to the end of the stables and the weathercock. From Wordnik.com. [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]
There was, above all, a little pointed roof surmounted by a weathercock, buried in the trees at about fifty paces from my window, which greatly interested me. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Unless you are a writer who, like a weathercock, feeds on every little burp of local wind, there is no compelling reason to be in touch here more than elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
Mary's procession to the Abbey is signalised by the exploits of a Dutchman, who sat astride on the weathercock of St. Paul's five hundred feet in the air, as the Queen passed. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference
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