Latimer showed a belated firmness on the subject of Hartlepool Helen, and Vera withdrew without pressing the point, having first settled the gamecock on his extemporised perch and taken an affectionate farewell of the pigling.
The pigling, as though aware that it might have outstayed its welcome, dashed out at the door, and the gamecock followed it at a more dignified pace.
Gamecock was now so decidedly the favourite that the bets were five to one upon him: but the result was far different from these expectations, and very tragical.
After a few seconds Gamecock got up, but his rider did not recover his senses.
A gamecock struggles at his tether in the stern, while the deck amidships swarms with wiry brown men, with bristling pompadours and feet like rubber, with wide-spreading toes.
The signature at the bottom of each was the familiar scrawl of Java's gamecock governor.
In that posture his long, coarse hair rose bristly above his neck, giving him something of the appearance of a gamecock with feathers ruffled.
Jesus had the head of a gamecockand as he pecked at Raul's wound he talked fast: "Fetch me several clean towels, Marta.
His gamecock head bobbed; his comb of hair leaned to one side; he grunted and pushed.
Keep the gamecock to mind the farmyard; there be more birds than ducks needed.
Mutubtub ug táwu ang íyang hiniktan, His gamecockwill charge at people.
The Hull fishermen, of the Gamecock and Great Northern Fleets, had their trawls down and were thus deprived of the possibility of rapid movement, when about midnight they sighted a number of warships steaming from the northeast.
In the North Sea, at the point known as the Dogger Bank, the Russian vessels encountered the Gamecock fishing fleet from Hull, England.
At last people began to notice that young Gamecock went very often to Rookwood Hall, and many surmises were soon afloat.
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.
It appears that Mr. 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.
Ah, to ride into camp before that puffed-up gamecock of a Merinda on such a horse!
He’d met the gamecock breed before and had never known the need to bristle at their crowing.
