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Many local children play on the dirt grounds around this farm with the cockerels running loose all day.
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In addition to the typical "island dog," we saw "atypical" breeds such as huskies, chows, pit bulls, cockers and Labs.
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The only other animal to be seen was a cockerel, to which one presumed was attached some monetary value.
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Whenever Mr Cockerell rings the bell some one in the butts courteously rings back.
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They know what life and sentiment they need in deed, they could strive for their future, but they shouldn't give up themselves for some peacockery.
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And that boy be cockered up much by Mister Dale; and the Papishers went and sat with him and his mother a whole hour t'other day; and that boy is as deep as a well; and I seed him lurking about the place, and hiding hisself under the tree the day the stocks was put up -- and that ere boy is Lenny Fairfield.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
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And yet I'm told some o 'your cockered-up fly-flappers carnt' it a 'ole in a pound o' butter, or stand a straight nose-ender without turning faint!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892
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Joe Cocker plays a pimp/hippie character whose goatee is painted on using the same technology used by Groucho Marx no less than 355 years ago.
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Cockerham went with Wilmoth to notarize 58 petition pages June 28, Trodden said.
Guilty plea in Arlington voter fraud case
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Jarvis Cocker: "Why do they call a puny person a weed, when weeds are tenacious plants that grow in adverse circumstances?
Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body
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The cocker spaniel puppy stopped abruptly, then eyed the spinning leaf overhead.
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And tonight, as film-maker Michael Cockerell explores their world in tonight's edition of Great Offices of State on BBC4, Mario Dunn, the former special adviser to Alan Johnson, says a fair few special advisers – but not him – modelled themselves on the fictitious, foul-mouthed Tucker.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Am I the only one seeing the irony, that the FIRST thing I have to do with this copy of Repair of Books by Cockerell is REMOVE THE 2½ "x 1½" BOOKSELLER TICKET THAT THE VENDOR APPLIED TO IT?!? at
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Flint's ancestors came from Spain and were bred in the UK to specifically catch Eurasian Woodcocks, which is where the term 'cocker' comes from.
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As the sun was sinking below the horizon, we relaxed by the pool, sipping cognac and snoozing as the cockerels strutted about on the lawn nearby.
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My own veranda in Cockermouth is a larger example, as is the more ostentatious orangery at Brockhole.
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One MDC supporter described it like plucking the feathers off a cockerel (the cockerel is the symbol of Zanu-PF).
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They have nine springer spaniels, one cocker spaniel and one Hungarian vizsla.
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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Confidence and peacockery can be entertaining as long as you know and are consistently reminded of where the focal point is—or, in this case, Who it is.
April 2008
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His father asked him how he was a dozen times a day; his mother talked continually of "that dear boy's narrow escape"; and grandma cockered him up with every delicacy she could invent; and the girls waited on him like devoted slaves.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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Even Cockerton could not escape progress and in 1860 John Prior began building the street of houses that still bear his name.
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Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel. 2.
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In a culture made in my garden from the seed sent me by Mr. Cockerell, I observed (1903) that both forms had a subvariety with brownish foliage, and, besides this, one of a pure green.
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Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel. 2.
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Making use of its big database, PetSmart sent out 117,000 emails to cocker spaniel and Great Pyrenees owners who had entered contact information after bringing in their pets for grooming.
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About half-way back up the hill, pausing for a breather, I spied a couple of beautiful little cockerels, hiding in the hedge.
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Small spaniel dogs weighing up to 25 pounds were called cockers because they were used to hunt woodcocks.
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Dave Cockerill and Paul Lees caned the Thorpe attack with 131 coming in the first 20 overs.
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Scott was accepted in spite of the idiom which he sometimes employed, and not because of it, and one can only laugh at the fancy presented to the mind by the picture of an English or a foreign reader who for the first time found himself confronted by Mrs. Bartlemy Saddletree's query to her maid: 'What gart ye busk your cockernony that gait?'
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The association had listed the cocker among 40 breeds deemed ‘not good’ with children.
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There are some recipes which specifically call for a cockerel and of these the best known are the Scottish cock-a-leekie and the French coq au vin.
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Secondly, care must be taken that this evil be no more cockered, nor the humor of it fed; wherein I humbly pray your lordships, that I may speak my mind freely, and yet be understood aright.
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Mark Chitty lives in Caernarfon, North Wales with his wife, Jane, and hyperactive cocker spaniel, Snoop.
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The cockerels were strutting up and down in their enclosure like generals making plans for war.
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Inspector Stephen Marais says he is looking for German shepherds, Rottweilers, Border collies, cocker spaniels, Labrador retrievers and kelpies to be trained in police work.
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Ye are a bonny lass, too, an ye wad busk up your cockernony a bit; and a bonny lass will find favour wi’ judge and jury, when they would strap up a grewsome carle like me for the fifteenth part of a flea’s hide and tallow, d — n them.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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There are ewers like eagles and cockerels, incense-burners like lynxes and a water-pourer in the form of an unfortunate humped cow (properly a zebu) which suckles its calf while a lion bites its hump.
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His speech is also sublimely simple, in marked contrast to the verbal peacockery of those around him.
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The 'bootiful' ad features a family about to tuck into turkey drumsticks suddenly bursting into song - a take on Joe Cocker's famous You Are So Beautiful.
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Unwanted baby rabbits and cockerels were abandoned in freezing conditions outside an environmental centre.
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Jean maun baith sing her psalms and busk her cockernony the gate the gudeman likes, and nae ither gate; for he’s maister and mair at hame, I can tell ye, Mr. Balderstone.”
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Instead of being made comfortable, and cockered up with every luxury, as they are at Clubs, bachelors ought to be rendered profoundly miserable, in my opinion.
The Book of Snobs
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Walker explained to me that he had been raising the young cockerel from a chick since last September, and this is his first year showing his birds.
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There are more than 50 traditionally docked breeds recognised by the Kennel Club, including cocker spaniels, pointers, Irish terriers and vizslas.
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There was even a fenced - in backyard for our cocker spaniel.
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Lannie sat on the floor, grinning happily, as a puppy cocker spaniel, Pounce, jumped in glee around her.
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My mother kept chickens until all four hens and the three cockerels were stolen just over two weeks ago by the local kids.
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The film-maker Michael Cockerell uses an article in the latest Standpoint magazine to recount the adventures of the late "brother leader" in the town in 1966.
Hugh Muir's diary
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My adorable little cockapoo (cocker spaniel-poodle mix), Midnight, dashed up to me.
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This yoong man, Muster Wharton, as is goin 'round so free, promisin' yer the sun out o 'the sky, iv yer'll only vote for' im, so th 'men say -- _ee_ don't coom an' set down along o 'you an' me, an 'cocker of us up as ee do Joe Simmons or Jim Hurd here.
Marcella
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A day, farmer goes market bought a cockerel.
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Although Clare felt that her cockerel was the best that she'd ever bred, she was unprepared for a phone call on Saturday lunchtime telling her that she'd won best of breed.
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But I doubt the daughter's a silly thing -- an unco cockernony she had busked on her head at the kirk last
Old Mortality, Complete
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John RobinsonThird instalment of this typically informed and witty series by Michael Cockerell.
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This is a real country garden, with hens running riot in the orchard and a cockerel lording it on the compost heap.
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Cockerill was fiery in his playing days but mostly keeps shtoom now.
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Restricted range and globally threatened birds present in Cape York Peninsula include the buff-breasted buttonquail (Turnix olivii EN), golden-shouldered parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius EN), lovely fairywren (Malurus amabilis), white-streaked honeyeater (Trichodere cockerelli), and yellow-spotted honeyeater (Meliphaga notata).
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Rob Cockerham may substitute another prize of equal value, in the event of non-availability of a prize.
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This time, the marauder was a relatively young fox - and no match for the new cockerel Dude and his hens Izzy, Pongo and Pecky.
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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The dogs - a mongrel, a Labrador, a papillon and three cocker spaniels - identified their chosen sample by lying down next to it.
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And running after them, day and night, came such a poor, lean, seedy, hard-worked old giant, as ought to have been cockered up, and had a good dinner given him, and a good wife found him, and been set to play with little children; and then he would have been
The Water Babies
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Young cockerels make excellent table fare with juicy, flavorful meat.
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A tartan screen, and once a year a new cockernony from Paris, should serve a countess.
Redgauntlet
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And it’s clear that wolves did evolve into chihuahuas, saint bernards, cocker spaniels, poodles, great danes and all the other dogs that have lived on earth.
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But the wavy-coated breed we officially call the cocker spaniel came later.
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Priya ElanIn this new, three-part series, Michael Cockerell lifts the lid on the traditionally discreet and secretive world of the Cabinet Office.
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Making use of its big database, PetSmart sent out 117,000 emails to cocker spaniel and Great Pyrenees owners who had entered contact information after bringing in their pets for grooming.
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This is fortunate because a number of breeds - poodles, cocker spaniels, huskies, and schnauzers, to name a few - are prone to eye disease and should be carefully watched.
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It was the family's other dog, a three-year-old cocker spaniel, who alerted them to the fact that the old dog, Angus, had got out of the garden of their home.
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Beside the arena men sat on their haunches in opposing lines with cockerels between their knees.
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However, we still have lots of animals who desperately need loving homes, particularly rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, hens, even cockerels.
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Cockerington Princess, champion of her own sex, also came to gladden our eyes, while the converting into stables of theretofore unused stone winery buildings went apace ....
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Certainly I myself could have wished no variation from it in the young officer of 'bersaglieri', who had come down from antiquity to the topmost gradine of the arena over against me, and stood there defined against the clear evening sky, one hand on his hip, and the other at his side, while his thin cockerel plumes streamed in the light wind.
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He had cockered himself up with some vain idea that the railway carriage would be a good place for the declaration of his purpose, or perhaps the sands at Lowestoft.
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The special advisers Cockerell meets will be worth noting – David Cameron was one not long ago, as were Nick Clegg, George Osborne, Ed Balls and both Milibands.
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Fifty years ago this summer, Sir Christopher Cockerell publicly demonstrated the hovercraft.
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Barefoot men napping under sackcloth canopies. A cockerel tied to the stilt of a water butt.
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The most popular hybrids are goldendoodles (golden retriever mix), Labradoodles, schnoodles, and cockapoos (cocker spaniel).
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The most serious objection to the use of the cocker is the difficulty of teaching him to distinguish his game, and confine himself within bounds; for he will too often flush everything that comes within his reach.
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They get the name rooster because the dorsal fin looks similar to the comb on a cockerel's head.
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The dogs - a mongrel, a Labrador, a papillon and three cocker spaniels - identified their chosen sample by lying down next to it.
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It can be agreed that the player or team that loses most games has to pay a forfeit, such as crawling under the table and crowing like a cockerel.
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She also wore a brightly coloured head piece that mimicked the spreading feathers of a cockerel's tail.
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Then he went over to his cages of white doves, black cockerels and other laboratory animals.
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If it be even so, in a short time 'there will be news o' thae craws, 'as Mrs. Alison Wilson says of Jenny Blane's' unco cockernony 'in the' Tales of my Landlord. '
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If it be even so, in a short time 'there will be news o' thae craws, 'as Mrs. Alison Wilson says of Jenny Blane's' unco cockernony 'in the
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He wasn't the most ghastly hooligan we'd seen," one senior officer told Cockerell.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Holders were ordered to lower the ceiling height of their chicken coops as, apparently, cockerels cannot crow unless they can throw their heads back.
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This cockerel is going to be the best thing I've seen all night, but I've already bought something," he said.
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It is hoped that the cockerel will suitably adapt his behaviour to the surroundings in which he will find himself.
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'ever followed by a modern on the probably or how to build a toilet femdom is correctly a major future in name cocker spaniels.
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He pulls out a Shruti Box - an odd-looking squeeze box which sounds a bit like bagpipes - and plays a little, to the delight of his beloved Cocker Spaniel Jake.
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There was a cocker spaniel, a Labrador, a Dalmatian, a Jack Russell, a husky, a golden retriever, a beagle, a poodle, three kinds of setters, a basset hound, a Great Dane, several different terriers, a basenji, a St. Bernard, and a mutt.
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For example, a greyhound will get colder faster than a cocker spaniel.
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Characteristic of Kuzmichev's fine enameling is the small tazza in Plate X, which incorporates a cockerel leaning against the stem.
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The cockerel is a popular motif in modernist art, symbolising regeneration, awakening and strength.
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Advocate aflame with passion, raise a gun one gun result cockerel.
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Their motivation was to try to understand the genetic roots of the particularly devastating inborn degenerative diseases that cause certain breeds — notably, miniature poodles, Norwegian elkhounds, Irish setters, collies, and cocker spaniels — to go blind.
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There are two cocker spaniels in the back, and a young woman with a most ungraceful air.
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'I'll give you a leathering, you young cockerel!' cried Lou, and began to unfasten the leather belt from round his waist.
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Ye are a bonny lass, too, an ye wad busk up your cockernony a bit; and
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However, Malia's allergies narrow his options to a "hypoallergenic" breed, such as a poodle or crosses like the labradoodle, a labrador-poodle cross, or the cockapoo, a cocker spaniel-poodle mix.
Undefined
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My father bought a dog for Laura, a cocker spaniel she named Raisinet.
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Had you been less a darling, you would not, perhaps, have been so graceless: But I never in my life saw a cockered favourite come to good.
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In the kitchen, underneath the mirror and to the left of the etching of the cockerel was the word outspoken.
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_The best time to caponize the cockerel_ is when he weighs between two or three pounds.
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We think he's part cocker spaniel and part Irish setter.
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The first recorded use of the word cockney was in 1521 to suggest an urban fool, a man who believed in an egg laid by a cockerel.
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I have not been cockered in wantonness or indulgence; my youth was one of exile and suffering.
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It is believed the cockerel was stolen by people who wanted to profit from the illegal practice of cock fighting.
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When cancer researchers last year wanted to do a genetic study of cocker spaniels, a breed at relatively high risk of getting melanoma, and Great Pyrenees, who are at risk for osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, they contacted PetSmart Inc., the Phoenix-based national chain of pet stores.
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Beside the arena men sat on their haunches in opposing lines with cockerels between their knees.
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There are ewers like eagles and cockerels, incense-burners like lynxes and a water-pourer in the form of an unfortunate humped cow (properly a zebu) which suckles its calf while a lion bites its hump.
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As Cockerell explains, the office was set up in the wake of the Somme fiasco in 1916 with a view to coordinating all government departments.
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But beyond that, the Congressional GOP outrage over the matter is also steeped in a competing exhibition of abstract expressionism: deficit peacockery.
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In one experiment, the cockerels were allowed to copulate in the presence of none, one, or three male competitors.
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Tonight, Cockerell goes knocking on the doors of Whitehall's private offices.
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My Cocker spaniel needs a good clip for summer.
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You have, I dare say, been cockered up at the Marchesa's with made dishes.
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Certainly I myself could have wished no variation from it in the young officer of 'bersaglieri', who had come down from antiquity to the topmost gradine of the arena over against me, and stood there defined against the clear evening sky, one hand on his hip, and the other at his side, while his thin cockerel plumes streamed in the light wind.
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Two of the farmyard cockerels had been cooked for the dinner and served with flowery potatoes and vegetables.
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A few farms run cockerels with the hens, because they help to calm the flock.
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Now, at 10, she has 20 hens, five cockerels and some ducks for which she lovingly cares.
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The family's two dogs, a cocker spaniel and a Siberian husky had the run of the house.
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I awkwardly boogied my way in her direction, decorating myself en route with the obligatory bar mitzvah dance floor peacockery, and we locked eyes.
The Human Bobby
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In the last year, countless acts from Moby to Joe Cocker via Bob Dylan have played to half-empty halls in the city.
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My mother kept chickens until all four hens and the three cockerels were stolen just over two weeks ago by the local kids.
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Doubtless we shall all be confounded in due course, for examining the entrails of a recently slaughtered cockerel is no more reliable now than it was in Roman times.
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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Certainly, an element of social peacockery does come into play — but that alone does not account for the phenomenon.
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In one room entitled "Adieu myths", the exhibition also debunks the idea that the cockerel was a Gallic emblem, even if gallus in Latin means "cockerel" and "Gaul".
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