"This cockerel is going to be the best thing I've seen all night, but I've already bought something," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Charity Begins With Home Furnishings] Reference
The cockerel is a popular motif in modernist art, symbolising regeneration, awakening and strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
In the kitchen, underneath the mirror and to the left of the etching of the cockerel was the word outspoken. From Wordnik.com. [Six Sentences] Reference
One MDC supporter described it like plucking the feathers off a cockerel (the cockerel is the symbol of Zanu-PF). From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
The "cockerel" side of these birds has white feathers, large wattles and breast muscles, whereas the smaller. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
For with a contemptuous laugh the Yankee uttered the one word "cockerel," and slammed down and fastened the light. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Bar] Reference
This operation changes the disposition of the cockerel. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
"And after him I doubt not comes the cockerel," I went on. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
This holds the cockerel firmly and prevents his struggling. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
An old man was thrusting a young cockerel through the window-bars. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
"Thought some o 'takin' out a policy o 'insurance on my cockerel.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference
His blood was up and he strangely resembled a little bantam cockerel. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
Another dog took up the alarm, and a cockerel challenged the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
“The spirits obey not the crowing of a cockerel,” reminded Marufa. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
A capon always develops more uniformly and is larger than the cockerel. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Very strange for someone to keep a cockerel in London, but there you go!. From Wordnik.com. [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference
The cockerel who woke us this morning was still crowing in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
He pointed to a fat young cockerel that was greedily pecking the scratch. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Of The Mansion]
She was holding a live cockerel in one hand and a long knife in the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
He gazed briefly on the gaudy cockerel that had become his family's symbol. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
As she said the word impotence she threw the bloody cockerel up into the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
The cockerel had awakened Viola even though her room was at the back of the house. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
Why was a cockerel allowed to run loose so close to the house? he wondered suddenly. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
Also ten white Plymouth Rock pullets and one cockerel, also an incubator and brooder. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
From the darkness beyond the palace walls I had already heard the first cockerel crow. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
A cockerel crowed and grey light filtered through the fretwork shutters like an enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
By the way, there is a cockerel a few gardens away and it is just joyfully happy today!. From Wordnik.com. [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference
The dogs flanked the procession and at the head of all marched Napoleon's black cockerel. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Farm]
/I sing for my small valley in hopes that in each small valley a cockerel will do as much. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
He was a pure bred, massive Black Orpington cockerel, a scion of the finest strain in the land. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919] Reference
But, however much she might whistle, she should see that I was at least no draggle-tailed cockerel!. From Wordnik.com. [The Gambler] Reference
Zora's bird also turned out to be a cockerel, though she remained in denial for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicken Chronicles] Reference
That ten-months cockerel, Blue Ribbon Junior, never fails to crow at three-thirty-three to the minute. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
"Today we are going to kill the black cockerel," said one, referring to the emblem used by Banda's MCP. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I was awoken by a cockerel crowing beneath my window and so was out riding in time to watch the sun rise. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
Adams turned to Humber, still laughing, and said, "Do you know why this cockerel got chucked out of Inskip's?". From Wordnik.com. [For Kicks]
Every hour the cockerel pops up from inside the egg, flaps his wings, nods his head and opens his beak to crow. From Wordnik.com. [A Week for Russian Art] Reference
As she spoke the last words the girl reached into a sack on the ground beside her and pulled out a live cockerel. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
I warned my party to be packed and ready as soon as the tireless Olympia cockerel sounded his first note next day. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
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