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"I admonish you to the best of my ability, and you are angry. I speak to you like an old man quietly, and you answer like a turkeycock: 'Bla -bla -bla! You really are a queer fellow. . . ." Moisey Moisevitch came in. He looked anxiously at Solomon and at his visitors, and again the skin on his face quivered nervously.

The Queen of Apamatuc, a comely young savage, brought him water, a turkeycock, and bread to eat. Powhatan professed great content with Smith, but desired to see his father, Captain Newport.

The Queen of Apamatuc, a comely young savage, brought him water, a turkeycock, and bread to eat. Powhatan professed great content with Smith, but desired to see his father, Captain Newport.

'You will understand, Mr Lessingham, that, in future, I don't know you, and that I shall decline to recognise you anywhere; and that what I say applies equally to any member of my family. With his hat very much on the back of his head he went down the steps like an inflated turkeycock.

Their manner of talking has been compared to the clucking of a hen, and by the Dutch to the "gobbling of a turkeycock." The Hottentots present every appearance of being a developed branch of the Pygmy family, or the result of a cross between Bushmen and negroes.

He went into the kitchen, saw me beside Marfa, and began inventing all sorts of silly stories. 'Why are you kissing? he says. He must have had a drop too much. 'And I'd rather kiss a turkeycock than Marfa, I said, 'And I've a wife of my own, you fool, said I. He did amuse me!" "Who amused you?" asked the priest who taught Scripture in the school, going up to Ahineev. "Vankin.

Fendrick, now in the best of humors, planted lazily his offhand barbs. Kate was seated on the porch sewing. She rose in surprise when her cousin and the sheepman appeared. They came with jingling spurs across the plaza toward her. Bob was red as a turkeycock, but Fendrick wore his most devil-may-care insouciance. "Where's Uncle Luck, sis? I've brought this fellow back with me.

But the fact is, W'isky was jealous o' ME" and the little wretch actually swelled out like a turkeycock and made a pretense of adjusting an imaginary neck-tie, noting the effect in the palm of his hand, held up before him to represent a mirror. "Jealous of YOU!" I repeated with ill-mannered astonishment. "That's what I said. Why not? don't I look all right?"

Gilbert Galbraith, Old House of Galbraith, Widdiehill, March, etc., etc. The laird stretched his neck like a turkeycock, and gobbled inarticulately, threw the paper to Fergus, and turning on his chair, glowered at Gibbie. Then suddenly starting to his feet, he cried, "What do you mean, you rascal, by daring to insult me in my own house? Damn your insolent foolery!"

So this man was a butler, he had been born and bred a butler, he lived by buttling, a butler he would die; not a pompous, turkeycock butler, such as the American stage will offer you when it takes up English fashionable life in a serious way, but a mild-mannered, decent body, with plain side-whiskers, chopped short on a line with the lobes of his ears, otherwise clean-shaven, his hair pathetically dyed, a colourless cast of countenance, eyes meek and mild.