How To Use Weathercock In A Sentence
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It weathercocked badly and was under power on the way down.
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Marching (100x15)
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A wooden timber frame topped with a weathercock serves as the outline of a backwoods cabin in which three brothers and their sister are orphaned when a bolt of lightning strikes.
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The pigeons, he allowed, were big and shining, and gleamed like mother-o'-pearl, and looked like a kind of weathercocks; but then they were fat and stupid, and their whole endeavour was to fill themselves with food.
What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales
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Archive 2008-02-01
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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.
Dombey and Son
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Well, Smith, I judge by your brief answer that you are discomposed with this matter; but, after all, women are weathercocks, that is the truth on't.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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On the following Sunday, the sun himself scarcely exceeded in brilliancy the flashing Weathercock, which hovered gently between point and point on the old church-tower by the sea, as if to exhibit his splendour to the world.
Parables From Nature
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The aircraft then weathercocked into wind and departed the runway.
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Will it be believed that the governor of such a house as this, is appointed, and deposed, and changed perpetually, as Parties fluctuate and vary, and as their despicable weathercocks are blown this way or that?
American Notes for General Circulation
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The latter, nicknamed ‘Cock Chapel’ on account of the weathercock on top of its 125 ft spire - the tallest in Keighley - would close for worship in 1937.
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Wales' weathercocks
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As usual, it weathercocked a little into the wind and I got some great footage of it coming down.
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The house contains a variety of window shapes, criss-crossing gables, beautiful Art Nouveau stained-glass windows, a corner turret with a weathercock (another one exists on top of the stables).
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The original boat proved seaworthy, fast and able to carry large amounts of kit, but weathercocked more than was comfortable.
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His eyes are like a balance, apt to propend each way, and to be weighed down with every wench's looks, his heart a weathercock, his affection tinder, or naphtha itself, which every fair object, sweet smile, or mistress's favour sets on fire.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The result was not pretty but did show just how powerful the rudder is as she weathercocked into the downward vertical.
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One large elm out of the two on the left-hand side as you enter what I call the elm walk, was likewise blown down; the maypole bearing the weathercock was broke in two, and what I regret more than all the rest is, that all the three elms which grew in
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
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The people of Pakistan are fed up with the same weathercocks and faces that always appear in the parliament after the elections.
We Need a Third Political Power in Pakistan: Sheikh Rashid
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She knew that she was getting nearer; the trees along the sides of the street began to look familiar, and she could almost recognize the old weathercock swinging on the roof.
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“Well, Smith, I judge by your brief answer that you are discomposed with this matter; but, after all, women are weathercocks, that is the truth on’t.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Like just now I was reading this story about weathercocks:
Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock
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In the intimate talks of that time Myles imparted something of his honest solidity to Gascoyne's somewhat weathercock nature, and to Myles's ruder and more uncouth character Gascoyne lent a tone of his gentler manners, learned in his pagehood service as attendant upon the Countess and her ladies.
Men of Iron
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“And from that day on, weathercocks have stood on their only leg, seeing everything that happens below, and pointing whichever way their friend the wind blows.”
Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock
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There was dancing light on the roofs and weathercocks; and a shimmering ripple out to sea.
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Marching (100x15)
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The aircraft weathercocked about 70° to the left and slid backward down a snow-covered embankment with an average slope of -13°.
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ALL the city's weathervanes and banners and weathercocks held still.
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One large elm, out of the two on the left-hand side as you enter what I call the elm walk, was likewise blown down; the maple bearing the weathercock was broke in two, and what I regret more than all the rest is, that all the three elms which grew in Hall's meadow, and gave such ornament to it, are gone; two were blown down, and the other so much injured that it cannot stand.
Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
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He said that some were signposts and some were weathercocks.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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It weathercocked slightly into the wind but coasted for what seemed like ages; finally the top section popped off and the parachute came out.
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Other common objects also had their names changed to make them more seemly: haycock turned into haystack, weathercock into weathervane, and apricock into apricot.
