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But the battered, hairy sea-dogs who had fought it out in hand-to-hand conflicts on the Caribbean were for leaving the brig in safe water and sending fifty men in boats to board the Revenge at the first break of day. In the midst of the fo'castle argument, Captain Bonnet sent for Jack Cockrell and told him: "You are to keep out of harm's way, my young gamecock.
"You and I," he would say, tapping first my chest and then his own, "we have them all here the ape, the tiger, the pig, the motherly hen, the gamecock, the good ant; we are all, rolled into one. So the man of the future, he will be made up of many men the courage of one, the wisdom of another, the kindliness of a third."
There was only one acquaintance who had met and spoken with him, and that by the best of good fortune was Harry Whittington, the idler who took his banishment and his King's misfortunes with an equally light heart, and gave never a thought at all to anything weightier than a gamecock. Wogan's spirits revived. He had not yet come to the end of his luck.
Young Gamecock listened to the good dame's stories, told her he knew no fear, that the wind might whistle as it willed for him; and that if he owned such a mansion, that the old pictures should decorate the garrets, where the bats and sparrows held undisputed possession. At last people began to notice that young Gamecock went very often to Rookwood Hall, and many surmises were soon afloat. Mr.
You cannot move an Indian by pity, and he will show mercy only to one who, like a gamecock, asks nothing less. The chief heard me gravely, and spoke to the others. One cried out something in a savage voice, and for a moment a fierce argument was raised, which the chief settled with uplifted hand. "My brother speaks bold words," he said.
Age mouthed an ugly word to the veteran insensible of it in his body, when a desire to be one with these pairs of nimble wrists and legs was like an old gamecock shown the pit and put back into the basket. He left the place, carrying away an image of the coxcombical attitudinizing of the man Morsfield at the salut, upon which he brought down his powers of burlesque.
There must have been that in my face which cooled him, for his hand fell, and his thin lips curled into sarcastic smile. "If I seemed hasty," he exclaimed, "it was more because I was blocked by that boor of a Chevet yonder, and it angered me to have this young gamecock ever at hand to push in. What think you you were employed for, fellow an esquire of dames?
Then Chanty called him a coward, and gave Mrs. B. a peck, which so enraged her spouse that he flew at Chanty like a gamecock, and a dreadful fight followed, which ended in Chanty's utter defeat, for he died from his wounds. Downy and Snowball soon followed; for the two sweet little things would swing on the burdock-leaves that grew over the brook.
Gamecock had long been affianced to Miss Hennie Partlett, and the news of his desertion so preyed on her delicate constitution, that she pined away and lost all her good looks. Fired at the indignity offered to his family, her brother Redcomb sought his opportunity, met Mr. Gamecock as he was crossing the lawn in front of Rookwood Hall, and challenged him to mortal combat.
There was a kind of gamecock called Cornish Game that was fairly manshaped. If it had been big enough Pull in the sling and close the lock. We're moving." He turned away. Babs stood by Alicia, offering a handkerchief for Alicia to put to her cheek. Jamison listened unhappily as Johnny Simms explained brightly that he had always been that way.
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