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Updated: June 26, 2025
Up and down before her strode a game-cock, which, watching the calm looks and contented manner of the goose, which contrasted so greatly with his own fiery disposition, began to get angry, just as human beings who are out of sorts sometimes do with those who appear happy and smiling.
"Here is a stout old game-cock! Out of the way, greybeard! We'll spare you for your spirit. Take him, some of you, alive!" The Gallic thunder-god. Two gigantic, blond Germans thrust their prodigious bodies through the doorway. Mamercus was no small man, but slight he seemed before these mighty Northerners.
If we had been allowed to take our mule-train, we could have kept the whole cavalry division supplied. In the afternoon word came to us to march. General Wheeler, a regular game-cock, was as anxious as Lawton to get first blood, and he was bent upon putting the cavalry division to the front as quickly as possible.
Nevertheless, Dirck was a sterling fellow, as true as steel, as brave as a game-cock, and as honest as noon-day light. Jason was a very different sort of person, in many essentials. In figure, he was also tall, but he was angular, loose-jointed and swinging slouching would be the better word, perhaps.
"Not he, sir; there's too much of the game-cock about him for that." "I'll warrant you he can crow! But what is the news, Bury?" "The news is that the old Planter is as wet as a wash-tub, forward, and I must have a dry jacket do you hear, there, Tom? Soundings," turning to the master, who just then came in from forward, "have you taken a look out of doors this morning?"
At other times, Joey would reap a rich harvest in the broad day, by means of his favourite game-cock.
The ornaments in their houses are generally a figure of the Virgin Mary, a crucifix, and their favourite game-cock. The men wear a pair of trousers of cotton or grass-cloth, with a shirt worn outside them, generally of striped silk or cotton, embroidered at the bosom. Cock-fighting is their chief amusement, as it is, indeed, among most of the people in all parts of the archipelago.
The story was commented upon, it was recounted vividly, it took on particulars, and was doubted by no one. The appearance of Capitan Tiago was minutely described of course the frock coat, the cheek bulged out by the quid of buyo, without omitting the game-cock and the opium-pipe.
And it was vexatious that Lawyer Gore was not more like him, but was a bald, round-featured man, with bland manners and fat hands; a game-cock that you would be rash to bet upon against Wakem. Gore was a sly fellow. His weakness did not lie on the side of scrupulosity; but the largest amount of winking, however significant, is not equivalent to seeing through a stone wall; and confident as Mr.
From what I see of the people and their tremendous activity they could not be defeated by any nation or combination of nations. They are like Senator 's Malay game-cock, of which the senator has said that there is only one trouble with him the bird never knows when he is licked, and if he does he does not stay licked.
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