16 Metaphors for cocked

The cock was an old peasant woman with a ruffled white cap, and when she left, in spite of the sentry, she patted me encouragingly on the shoulder.

It was he who arranged the cockfights in which the general delighted, declaring a game cock to be the bravest thing alive.

But what saith old Bishop Durandus?"The cock at the summit of the church is a type of the preacher.

There is a mystery conveyed in each of these particulars: the night is the world; the sleepers are the children of this world, who are asleep in their sins; the cock is the preacher who preacheth boldly, and exciteth the sleepers to cast away the works of darkness, exclaiming, Woe to them that sleep!

"Whether there would be a talisain cock, armed with a sharp gaff, whether the blessed Peter's fighting-cock would be a bulik" Talisain and bulik are distinguishing terms in the vernacular for fighting-cocks, tari and sasabungin the Tagalog terms for "gaff" and "game-cock," respectively.

A really fine black-cock is quite an event nowadays," I said.

Let us express ourselves with simple and direct malevolence: the Cock is a robber!

The only Cock to my fancy would be a plain inglorious Cock to whom I should be all in all.

The most useful cock is generally the greatest tyrant, who struts among his hens despotically, with his head erect and his eyes ever watchful.

Mock Cock-a-Leekie or Leek Soup (maigre) is an excellent winter soup.

Dick now observed that, from the uncertainty of its motions, the turkey-cock was blind, a discovery which caused a throb of compunction to enter his breast for standing and looking on, so he ran forward.

The extraordinary carving over the vestry door called the "fighting cocks" is in the eyes of the villagers its chief merit!

" [1000]Lucian's cock was first Euphorbus, a captain: "Ille ego (nam memini)

Baleful Alecto, prythee, stay awhile, Till with my verses I have rack'd his soul; And when thy soul departs, a cock may be No blank at all in hell's great lottery Shame sits and howls upon thy loathed grave, And howling, vomits up in filthy guise The hidden stories of thy villanies.

" [1000]Lucian's cock was first Euphorbus, a captain: "Ille ego (nam memini)

The cock and hen become objects of venerationlive in a state of chastityand are finally translatedleaving just two eggs, from which arise another immaculate cock and hen.

16 Metaphors for  cocked