How To Use Blackcock In A Sentence
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The black grouse (or blackcock) has actually become extinct on Dartmoor.
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September 27, 2006, 9: 10 am small cock black cock says: small cock blackcock
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Similarly I can recall seeing blackcock, grouse, ring ousel and merlin on Exmoor until the mid sixties.
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October 23, 2006, 2: 08 pm sucking black cock says: sucking blackcock n00stalgie
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Brown's terrier Wasp was the means of his striking up an acquaintance with the sturdy farmer opposite, who, hearing that he had never seen a blackcock, invited him forthwith to Charlies-hope, the name of his farm, where he promised him he should both see blackcock, shoot blackcock, and eat blackcock.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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October 23, 2006, 6: 20 pm big black cock says: big blackcock n00stalgie
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I have always walked alone or with one or two companions, and I have considered it a privilege to watch fox cubs play, otters fish, salmon leap and blackcock lek without causing disturbance to wildlife or landowner.
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There are thirty yonder that would have shed their lifeblood for you -- thirty, from the child of a week to the auld wife of a hundred, that you have made homeless, that you have sent out to sleep with the fox and the blackcock.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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I say, you have shot a blackcock, Yegor Vlassitch!
The Witch, and other stories
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Forest areas are characterized with blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix), and other forest birds (Dendrocopos major, Oriolus oriolus, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Parus cyanus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Anthus trivialis) and others.
Kazakh upland
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Forest areas are characterized with blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix), and other forest birds (Dendrocopos major, Oriolus oriolus, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Parus cyanus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Anthus trivialis) and others.
Kazakh upland
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The sides of the Berg were full of quail and partridge and bush pheasant, and on the grassy plateau there was abundance of a bird not unlike our own blackcock, which the Dutch called korhaan.
Prester John
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Another interesting feature about pheasants is the extraordinary difference in plumage between the sexes, a gap equalled only between the blackcock and greyhen and quite unknown in the partridge, quail and grouse.
Birds in the Calendar
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Across his shoulder hung a game-bag with a blackcock lying in it.
The Witch, and other stories
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I kept on imagining that red dogs were running round me, and you made them point at me, as if I were a blackcock.
Fathers and Sons
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The greyhen goes to a distance to make her nest, in order to conceal her eggs from the blackcock.
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He was a good shot and a blackcock, killed when out shooting with the Duke of Northumberland, was for many years exhibited in Keilder Castle.