The next day the Blue Cock sailed into the roadstead and the fort thundered a salute.
And when the Blue Cock comes to port you shall have more petticoats and high-heeled shoes than any beauty in New Amstel.
The broad, remorseless river flowed past with nothing on its tide except the two or three vessels tied to the river bank, of which the Blue Cock was directly under the widow's great dwelling.
And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted--"Open then the Door!
At my torch and crown of roses These young minxes cock their noses.
Would you take me out to the hen-house, to see your cock and hen, Mrs. Owen?
I am surprised she let you have a hen and cock without consulting me.
It is a hen, and her name is Henrietta Cox, and Miss Betsy gave me a young cock because he crowed so he woke up the neighbors; and we haven't any near neighbors.
How terrible it was to be so old that the idea of seven hens and a cock and twelve chickens made no more impression on one than that!
Dear little Mer" was a merlin, that sate perched on her left wrist, in size to the peregrines as a bantam cock to the biggest of chanticleers.
Alas--the duke went to shoot black cock this morning--I suppose he didn't know that Your Highness was coming?
The shrill crowing of a cock suddenly echoed through the stillness from the yard of the neighboring parsonage.
I will only remind you of the words you yourself said to-day: 'May you never be forced to weep the tears which Peter shed when the cock crowed for the third time.
His glance rested mournfully on Peter, who before the cock crew, would deny Him thrice, and on Judas, who would betray Him for thirty pieces of silver.
May the day never come which will prove which of us will first deny the other, and may you never be forced to weep the tears which Peter shed when the cock crowed for the third time.
Before the cock crowed, she had thrice betrayed him, betrayed him in the very hour when she had sworn fidelity.
Again she remembered that evening when her father came and she had knelt with Freyer in the church before the Pieta, until the crowing of the cock reminded her how easy it was to betray love and fidelity.
All the people admired the cock and lay awake at night to hear him crow.
And so they left the cock crowing, the scythe cutting grain, and the cat catching rats, but the three sons kept the gold.
The oldest son told them thecock would crow at certain hours, and was as good as a clock.
The oldest son took thecock and started out on his travels.
Birds occasionally sing at night, just as the cock crows.
In the case of the domestic dove, for instance, promptly at midday the cock is found upon the nest.
I thought I had reached the capital of grasshopperdom, and that this was perhaps one of the chiefs or leaders, or perhaps the great High Cock O'lorum himself, taking an airing in the fields.
I have seen a fine cock robin paying assiduous addresses to a female bird as late as the middle of July; and I have no doubt that his intentions were honorable.
The peasants there say:-- Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren Are God Almighty's cock and hen.
A pregnant woman takes three, two hens and one cock, one hen for herself and the other two for the unborn infant--the hen lest it should be a girl, and the cock lest it should be a boy.
The cock was one of the attendants or emblems of AEsculapius or Asclepius, the god of medicine of the Greek mythology, and this fowl was commonly sacrificed to him.
In France, a black cock is the chief instrument employed to raise the devil, and extract from the fiend sums of money.
In the first scene in Hamlet, on the departure of the ghost, Bernardo says:-- It was about to speak when the cock crew.
A yet very prevalent superstition asserts that a person at the point of death finds serious difficulty in "shuffling off this mortal coil" should there happen to be any game cock feathers in the bed on which he lies.
This cock goeth to death, but may I be gathered and enter into a long and happy life and into peace.
According to Plato, the last words of Socrates were, "Criton, we owe a cock to Asclepius.
The Hindoos "cast out devils" by the aid of a cock slaughtered as a sacrifice.
A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women.
The prophet; the Cock at Temple Bar: so called, in 1788, by the bucks of the town of the inferior order.
A male procurer, or cock bawd; also a small faggot used about London for lighting fires, named from introducing the fire to the coals.
Doodle doo, or Cock a doodle doo; a childish appellation for a cock, in imitation of its note when crowing.
Certain: a metaphor borrowed front the cock of a firelock, as being much more certain to fire than the match.
If one believes that good works make for salvation, one finds oneself in a dungeon; if one laughs at a cock and an ass, one risks being hanged.
There are hardly men who always take a cock for a horse, or a chamber-pot for a house.
When thecock had crawn, and the day did dawn, And the sun began to peep, Then up and raise him Lord Gregory, And sair, sair did he weep.
But the young cock crew in the merry Linkum, And the wild fowl chirped for day; And the aulder to the younger said, "Brother, we maun away.
The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin worm doth chide; Gin we be missed out o' our place, A sair pain we maun bide.
O what's become o' my housecock Sae crouse at ane did craw?
Mr. Gray Cock and his wife used to say, "It was our system of education did that!
When Gray Cock came home, he found that Master Freddy had been before him, and established Mrs. Feathertop upon eight nice eggs, where she was sitting in gloomy grandeur.
Mrs. Feathertop rose up out of her swoon, and Mr. Gray Cock was greatly enraged.
Master Gray Cock was greatly concerned, and went to old Doctor Peppercorn, who looked solemn, and recommended an infusion of angle-worms, and said he would look in on the patient twice a day till she was better.
Master Gray Cock came home in high spirits and complimented her; told her she was looking charmingly once more, and said, "Very well, very nice!
As soon as the crow of the cock announced the first beam of the morning, Virginia arose, and hastened to draw water from a neighboring spring; then, returning to the house, she prepared the breakfast.
I don't expect she'll raise a single chick; and there's Gray Cock flirting about fine as ever.
The Winter was almost over, but March winds did not, as expected, blow Cock away.
Can you kindly point out the way to the Fox and Cock Inn?
Well, ain't the Fox andCock the same as the Brush and Comb?
Then there were races, and the winner received the cock as a prize.
In the midst of the bonfire a pole was planted with a wooden figure of a cock fastened to the top.
Then the Cock shook himself, and a shower of golden ducats fell and lay upon the plates in three great heaps.
The Election Meeting The Fox and the Hedgehog Master Reinecke and Gockeling, the Cock The Disappointed Bear IX.
At this the King flew into a still greater rage, and gave command to catch the Cock and throw him among the geese.
When he found himself near the city the Cock flew up with him to the window of the room in which the company were assembled enjoying themselves.
Then the Cock said to the Fox, "Come forth, Master, and finish up with all these geese!
Then the King commanded that the great bake-oven should be heated and the Cock thrown into it.
The servants seized the Cock and carried him to the treasure-chamber, but they were so frightened that they ran away as fast as their heels could carry them, forgetting to fasten the door.
Then the Fox groped a hole through the pen, and he and the Cock slipped comfortably out.
Then theCock told the Wolf to slip out, and during the night Isegrim strangled all the horses and ate up a whole colt.
The Cock flew again to the roof and sang as on the former day: Cock-a-doodle-doo!
But soon they recognized their son, who was riding upon his Cock behind the swine and making straight for the imperial castle.
Then he broke a hole through the wall, by which he and the Cock escaped.
There were great heaps of shining, brand-new ducats in the treasure-chamber, and the Cock made the best of the opportunity by swallowing a number of them and hiding one under each of his feathers.
The Cock crowed with all his might, until the chamberlain went to the window and asked what he wanted.
The next morning the people came to see if the Cock was dead, when, lo!
The servant caught the Cock and threw him into the very middle of the hot oven.
A fox once remarked to a wolf, "Dear friend, do you know that the utmost I can get for my meals is a tough old cock or perchance a lean hen or two.
But he had not gone more than a few steps when a cock crew near by.
The oldCock was not a palatial house, but it was splendid to the raw country lad, and he was half afraid to enter.
He had tasted a novel excitement, and the thrill was still in his blood He walked rapidly through the winter air towards his lodgings, dressed there in his best, and sallied out again, making straight for the Cock tavern.
