Their campaign cry might therefore appropriately have been "Cockfighting and Idleness!
The cruel sport of cockfightingmay be traced back to the earliest antiquity.
The part of our ships so called, seems also to indicate that in former times the diversion of cockfighting was permitted, in order to beguile the tedious hours of a long voyage.
The religion of the Greeks could not see that game with pleasure, and therefore cockfighting was allowed only once a year; but the Romans adopted the practice with rapture, and introduced it into this island.
Nevertheless, the campaign against cockfighting has increased precisely because the number of cockfighters has decreased.
None can say that cockfighting has increased; it is easy to prove that it has decreased; the number of days permitted by law is now insignificant compared with what it was a few years ago.
It cannot be pity, therefore, for the birds or beasts, which makes the authorities forbid cockfighting and bull-baiting.
For were not the prevailing sins of cockfighting and bull-baiting, and all the other popular brutalities of the period, to be combated in Willenhall as much as in Darlaston or Wednesbury?
It must be borne in the mind that those were the old cockfighting days, when town matched against town their gamest birds, and sought the glories of a victory in the cock-pit.
The original name of the pit in our theatres was the cock-pit, which seems to imply that cockfighting had been their original destination.
British cocks are mentioned by Cæsar; but the first notice of English cockfighting is by Fitzstephen, in the reign of Henry II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cockfighting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
