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The Governor came, with his Light-horse Troop And his mounted truckmen, all cock-a-hoop; Halberds glittered and colors flew, French horns whinnied and trumpets blew, The yellow fifes whistled between their teeth And the bumble-bee bass-drums boomed beneath; So he rode with all his band, Till the President met him, cap in hand.
"You shan't have to wait till to-morrow morning; I'll go down and bring him up. Don't fuss!" "There you go always so cock-a-hoop. He mayn't come in at all." "Well, if he doesn't come in you won't catch him by standing out here in your dressing-gown." Soames rounded the last bend and came in sight of his father's tall figure wrapped in a brown silk quilted gown, stooping over the balustrade above.
Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch would, perhaps, have looked down on L n, and have called him a boastful cock-a-hoop coward; it's true he wouldn't have expressed himself aloud.
I said that his excellency should find me more cock-a-hoop with Shakespeare than with myself. 'Well, well, he answered, with a severe look, 'our Company has need of great men for hard tasks. To this I made no answer, for I got a warning look from the young lady, a look which had a sort of reproach and command too.
"Yes, I have, Sir," said I, "and in language that I never before heard on his Majesty's quarter-deck. I joined this ship as an officer and a gentleman, and as such I will be treated." "Mutiny, by G !" roared the captain. "Cock-a-hoop with your new commission, before the ink is dry!"
But Richard himself parried the impending stroke of truth, saying: "So she is safe and well, Mr. Stair, 'tis all I ask to know." "She is safe enough; safer by far than you are at this minute, my young cock-a-hoop rebel, now that the king God save him! has his own again." I turned quickly on the broad door-stone to look within.
When any of us ventured to criticise any thing foreign, he was up in arms, and cock-a-hoop for the climate, the customs, the constitution! He sneered awfully at a simple gaucherie, but, to make amends, had ever an approving wink for the meanest irreverence; any intellect, however feeble, being secure of his praise if it only tried to thwart the end for which it was given.
The officer was spending a fortnight at the Red House, for his previous friendship with John Grimbal had ripened. "By Jove! Tom Newcombe, by all that's wonderful!" he exclaimed, as Will swung past him down the hill to happiness. "That's not his name. It's Blanchard. He's a young fool of a farmer, and Lord knows what he's got to be so cock-a-hoop about.
"My cook's been walking out with the village carpenter ever since she came to St. Wennys, but she's no nearer a wedding ring than she was twelve months ago." "I think," observed Sandy gravely, "that greater success will attend Penelope's perambulations. Kitty was so cock-a-hoop over it that she couldn't refrain from 'phoning the good news on Sunday morning.
"Sith thy time is so short, Jones, mayhap thou 'lt spare it, and tell thine errand at once," interposed Standish sharply, and Jones turned upon him with a leer. "So cock-a-hoop still, my little Captain! Hard work and starving do not cool thy temper, do they? But hold, man, hold.
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