68 Words to use with cocks

" I was at the water-side next day at cock-crow, while the mist was still low on the river.

They attended horse-races and cock-fights, almost always with some money on the outcome, and frequently with a horse or cock entered in the races or the pittings.

Some fellow who was near bankrupt from dice and cock-fighting would offer me five hundred hogsheads, when I knew that his ill-guided estate could scarce produce half.

Never shall you hear anything wintry from his warm breast; no pinched cheeping, no wavering notes between sorrow and joy; his mellow, fluty voice is ever tuned to downright gladness, as free from dejection as cock-crowing.

and thou, in thy cock-sparrow humour, repliest, Ay, before God, as I am a gentleman, will I; which the father overhearing, leaps in, takes you at your word, swears he is glad to see this; nay, he will have you contracted straight, and for a need makes the priest of himself.

THE STORY OF SAIÁWUSH Early one morning as the cock crew, Tús arose, and accompanied by Gíw and Gúdarz and a company of horsemen, proceeded on a hunting excursion, not far from the banks of the Jihún, where, after ranging about the forest for some time, they happened to fall in with a damsel of extreme beauty, with smiling lips, blooming cheeks, and fascinating mien.

He is not a sportsman; why, he would be afraid of a cock pheasant, though he would be plucky enough among the hens.

It is a fallacy, for the songster is always the cock-bird.

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, To see an old woman ride on a white horse.

The cock-pit branch of the revenue is hired out by the government, and the license is separately set up at auction for the respective provinces.

One cock-boat spoils it; a seamew or two improves it.

We had previously got the two bowers a-cock-bill, (the cables were bent as soon as we made the land); and nothing remained but to let run.

The men at the seat-ends would not stir to accommodate me, and I had to find rest in the cock-loft.

The spiritual power, which is that of imbibing, at the expense of the aforesaid candidate, any number of fluid pounds of anything good to take, whether the same may be punches, cock-tails, smashes, slings, or plain drinks.

We were so impressed by his guileless face and cock-a-hoop assurance, that we had not the heart to turn him away.

In an hour the cows were landed, and were grazing in the crater, where the grass was knee-high, and everything possessing life was out of the ship, the rats and cock-roaches perhaps excepted.

Cock-eye Flinks glanced back at the wall behind him.

A Tennessee general, brought up with horse-jockeys, gamblers, and cock-fighters, and who never had even a fair common-school education, could not be expected to be very accomplished in the arts of composition, whatever talents and good sense he naturally may have had.

Most of them were cock-lairds from the Lennox, and, after the Highland fashion, had in their belts heavy pistols of the old kind which folk called "dags.

"Makin' a cock-shy of him," replies the hideous small boy.

But some of them are right enough, durable even for life; and the poorest serve for a cock-shyas when idle people, after picnics, float a bottle on a pond and have an hour's diversion ere it sinks.

Why Roosty sang cock-a-doodle-doo.

They seemed rather puzzled in spite of the cock-sureness of the first individual.

Taste there Milford oysters, marrow-puddings, cock-ale, metheglin, white and red-muggets, elvers, sherry, sack (which, with sugar, is called Bristol milk,) and some other wines, which, perhaps you will not drink so good at London.

At another part of the table, Shrove Tuesday was helping the Second of September to some cock broth,which courtesy the latter returned with the delicate thigh of a hen pheasantso there was no love lost for that matter.

68 Words to use with  cocks