141 examples of cockpits in sentences

We have our cockpits and casinos, but our aim is to develop our commerce and not make the town a Monte Carlo.

But this ancient cockpit of warring races could not escape.

For nearly a century and a quarter since Napoleon passed forwards and backwards through the town, Gaza pursued the arts of peace in the lethargic spirit which suits the native temperament, but in eight months of 1917 it was the cockpit of strife in the Middle East, and there was often crammed into one day as much fighting energy as was shown in all the battles of the past thirty-five centuries, Napoleon's campaign included.

As we drown whelps and kittens, they amuse themselves, now and then, with sinking a ship, and stand round the fields of Blenheim, or the walls of Prague, as we encircle a cockpit.

"The schools are open only on week-days and the cockpits on holidays.

"But, gentlemen," cried Don Custodio, in answer to so many exclamations, "let's be practicalwhat places are more suitable than the cockpits?

" "But the fact remains that sometimes there are cockfights during the week," objected Padre Camorra, "and it wouldn't be right when the contractors of the cockpits pay the government" "Well, on those days close the school!" "Man, man!"

The cockpits are farmed out annually by the local governments, the terms "contract," and "contractor," having now been softened into "license" and "licensee."Tr.

The furnace door was open and the red light touched Adam's face as he sat, supported by a cushion, in a corner of the cockpit.

Though not a thing of beauty, yet, as she swung lazily at her moorings with her wide, low windows and the little hooded cockpit that we tried hard not to call a porch, she looked cozy and comfortable.

While our breakfast was preparing, we all gathered in the forward cockpit to enjoy the scene and the life about us.

We should have to imagine all our savages; and there, on the table in Gadabout's little cockpit, close to the man (or, quite as likely, the woman) at the wheel, lay charts that told the hidden features of the river highway.

Some changes in the cockpit had crowded it from its place, and for some time it had been stowed awaybut where?

Nautica hurried to a window, and now saw a blur of light through the fog, showing that the steamer had safely passed us; but, though she called joyously, she was not in time to stay the Commodore, who had already dashed into the cockpit beating the tongueless bell with her curling-irons.

We sat out in the cockpit a long time that night enjoying the strangely quiet mood of the Powhatan.

Gadabout lay with her bulkheads closed tight about her forward cockpit, and must have looked most dismal.

Then, at any time, by gathering up the loose end of the string that lay in the cockpit, one could detect by the outgo of the line any tendency on the part of Gadabout to run away with her anchor.

" The Commodore arose and busied himself about cockpit and cabin mysteriously.

DICKINSON, CLARENCE E. The flying guns; cockpit record of a Naval pilot from Pearl Harbor through Midway.

He encouraged it, established cockpits in every town and instituted the carnival games.

We sat in silence around the cockpit.

D'ri's hand had gone out like the paw of a painter and sent him across the cockpit.

The Princess had been at Bath when first she arrived, but at the end of a week preparations were made at the Cockpit, a sort of appendage to Whitehall, where the Prince and Princess of Denmark lived, and in due time there was a visit to the nursery.

Her behest was obeyed, of course, though it was evidently displeasing to the nursery authorities, and Lady Strickland gave a warning to be discreet and to avoid gossip with the Cockpit folks.

When the country was ringing with the tidings of Sir George Barclay's conspiracy for the assassination of William III, it was impossible not to hope that Sedley's boastful tongue might have brought him sufficiently under suspicion to be kept for a while under lock and key; but though he did not appear at Fareham, there was reason to suppose that he was as usual haunting the taverns and cockpits of Portsmouth.

141 examples of  cockpits  in sentences