The 855 occurrences of cocky

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"Cocky," he called.

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"Cocky."

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* * * * * Cocky himself was the first to discover that the door was ajar, and was looking at it with speculation (if by "speculation" may be described the mental processes of a bird, in some mysterious way absorbing into its consciousness a fresh impression of its environment and preparing to act, or not act, according to which way the fresh impression modifies its conduct).

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Cocky, staring at the open door, was in just the stage of determining whether or not he should more closely inspect that crack of exit to the wider world, which inspection, in turn, would determine whether or not he should venture out through the crack, when his eyes beheld the eyes of the second discoverer staring in.

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Cocky knew danger at the first glimpse-danger to the uttermost of violent death.

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Yet Cocky did nothing.

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They alighted on Cocky.

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No less frozen was Cocky.

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Could a bird sigh, Cocky would have sighed.

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The eyes brooded on Cocky, and the entire body was still save for the long tail, which lashed from one side to the other and back again in an abrupt, angry, but monotonous manner.

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Never removing its eyes from Cocky, the cat advanced slowly until it paused not six feet away.

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And Cocky, who could not know death with the clearness of concept of a human, nevertheless was not altogether unaware that the end of all things was terribly impending.

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As he watched the cat deliberately crouch for the spring, Cocky, gallant mote of life that he was, betrayed his one and forgivable panic.

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"Cocky!

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Cocky!" he called plaintively to the blind, insensate walls.

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The burden of his call was: "It is I, Cocky.

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I am Cocky.

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I am Cocky."

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This, and much more, was contained in his two calls of: "Cocky!

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Cocky!"

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And there was no answer from the blind walls, from the hall outside, nor from all the world, and, his moment of panic over, Cocky was his brave little self again.

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But Cocky was himself again.

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The gutter-cat prepared and sprang with sudden decision, landing where Cocky had perched the fraction of a second before.

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Cocky had darted to the side, but, even as he darted, and as the cat landed on the sill, the cat's paw flashed out sidewise and Cocky leaped straight up, beating the air with his wings so little used to flying.

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Struck in mid-air, a trifle of a flying machine, all its delicate gears tangled and disrupted, Cocky fell to the floor in a shower of white feathers, which, like snowflakes, eddied slowly down after, and after the plummet-like descent of the cat, so that some of them came to rest on her back, startling her tense nerves with their gentle impact and making her crouch closer while she shot a swift glance around and overhead for any danger that might threaten.

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Nor was there absent from the flashing visions of his consciousness the images and memories of Kwaque and Cocky.

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Whining eagerly, he strained at the leash, risking his tender toes among the many inconsiderate, restless, leather-shod feet of the humans, as he quested and scented for Cocky and Kwaque, and, most of all, for Steward.

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Nor least of all did Scraps appear, and Cocky, the valiant-hearted little fluff of life gallantly bearing himself through his brief adventure in the sun.

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And it would seem to Michael that on one side, clinging to him, Cocky talked farrago in his ear, and on the other side Sara clung to him and chattered an interminable and incommunicable tale.

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This particular "trusty" could no more understand Cowperwood than could a fly the motions of a fly-wheel; but with the cocky superiority of the underling of the world he did not hesitate to think that he could.

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He did not feel cocky or conceited at being himself President; he felt rather the responsibility for dignity which the office carried with it, and he was humble.

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It was made of unpainted wood, with leather hinges, and looked shabby in comparison with the jaunty red, green, and gray paint of some of the other boxes (with their cocky little metallic flags upraised).

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Late in the afternoon a sergeant, risen from the ranks and cocky about it, came in and turned himself out of a dripping greatcoat, dapper and dry in his red tunic, pipe-clayed belt, and winking buttons.

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Peter and Prince were the dearest dogs, and Cocky was a parrot that could say the most amusing things.

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She gives the children of the neighborhood a Christmas dinner and a gay tree, and she strips the hedges of Holly Lodge for them, and then she takes Peter and Prince, and Cocky the parrot, to help along the fun, and she tells her newest stories.

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--"Where was Bill Harris and Jones: not Squinny Jones, but Cocky Jones?"

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why can't boys play without making such a mess," sighed Molly, picking up the feathers from the duster with which Boo had been trying to make a "cocky-doo" of the hapless dog.

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"There was a sort of cocky unconcern about the creature that gave his miserable state a kind of beggarly distinction.

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Well, cocky, 'oo are you starin' at?"

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I began to feel very cocky indeed.

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This is only a word in your ear, so don't get cocky, old son.

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He stands vast and conspicuous, and conceited and self-satisfied, and roosterish and inconsequential, at Lueger's elbow, and is proud and cocky to be in such a great company.

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Well, cocky, 'oo are you starin' at?"

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Cocky fellows claiming impossible achievements.

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"Shooting the cocky-olly birds!"

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Fraulein Munsterthal did not quite know that such a person as Mrs. Merrifield was in existence; but she was very amiable and warm- hearted, and said how sad it was to think of the trouble that hung over "these so careless children," and was doubly kind to the girls when they came back from their conversation with pretty "Cocky," who set up his lemon-coloured crest, coughed, sneezed, and said "Cocky want a biscuit!" to admiration, till the boys were seen approaching; when Ida, knowing that some torment would follow, took herself and her visitors back to the protection of the governesses in time to prevent the cockatoo from being made to fly at the girls, and powder them with the white dust under his feathers.

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They were most of them in the prime of middle life, between thirty and forty, rugged in appearance, "cocky" in manner, with the swagger and the oath of so many buccaneers, hard as nails.

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If I weren't afraid of making you cocky, I'd tell you what they say about you down at that Sandhurst shop, where I have an old pal or two."

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It was Cupid who said: "Look here, Infant, you'll be getting cocky about what you did, if you don't look out."

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"You were warned not to be too cocky, you know," Mary said judicially, on seeing her downcast air.

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But a buck 'possum, who stealthily descends by a pillar from unknown realms of mischief on the top of the house, evidently discredits cocky's stories, and departs down the garden to see if he can find something to eat.

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"Your magpie has attacked cocky, and pulled a yellow feather out of his crest, which he has planted in the flower-bed, either as a trophy, or to see if it will grow."

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It was a rough grizzled fellow--a "cocky," on his own showing--who presented himself in the lamplight.

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Of the same type were the guests--men from other stations, cocky farmers and a very small sprinkling of township men.

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BELLA: (Admiringly) You're such a slyboots, old cocky.

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We were as zealous and vital as they were detached and as cocky and passionate as they were modest and emotionless.

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I've corrected that so often that I take about with me the word 'nephews' written in large text, to confute them, and I've actually taught Cocky to say, 'Nephews aren't Cousins.'

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You're cocky now.

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These chaps get tickets given 'm, and grow as cocky in a theatre as men who pay.

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These chaps get tickets given 'm, and grow as cocky in a theatre as men who pay.

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She's decidedly fresh and pert--the most delicious little fat lips and cocky nose; but cease we to dwell on her, or of us two, to!

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She's decidedly fresh and pert--the most delicious little fat lips and cocky nose; but cease we to dwell on her, or of us two, to!

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'Only not what the boys used to call "cocky,"' said Selina.

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'Only not what the boys used to call "cocky,"' said Selina.

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and that was why the Earl of Fleetwood backed our cocky Kitty, and means to land him on the top of his profession.

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and that was why the Earl of Fleetwood backed our cocky Kitty, and means to land him on the top of his profession.

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These chaps get tickets given 'm, and grow as cocky in a theatre as men who pay.

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She's decidedly fresh and pert--the most delicious little fat lips and cocky nose; but cease we to dwell on her, or of us two, to!

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'Only not what the boys used to call "cocky,"' said Selina.

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and that was why the Earl of Fleetwood backed our cocky Kitty, and means to land him on the top of his profession.

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The windmills had a rakish air; and the scarecrows in the truck gardens were debonair and cocky, tilting themselves back on their pins the better to enjoy the view and fluttering their ragged vestments in a most jaunty fashion.

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"Cocky Palmer's, for instance," said Charles Larkyns, "which always contained a full, true, and particular account of his Wheatley doings.

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He used to go over there, Verdant, to indulge in the noble sport of cock-fighting, for which he had a most unamiable and unenviable weakness; that was the reason why he was called 'Cocky' Palmer.

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"And Snuffy Palmer," remarked Mr. Bouncer, "was a long sight better feller than Cocky, who was in the very worst set in Brazenface.

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But Cocky did the Wheatley dodge once too often, and it was a good job for the King of Oude when his friend Cocky came to grief, and had to take his name off the books."

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At one time he was a great friend of Cocky Palmer's, and used to go with him to the cock-fights at Wheatley - that village just on the other side Shotover Hill - where we did a 'constitutional' the other day.

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Cocky, as our respected friend says, 'Came to grief,' but was allowed to save himself from expulsion by voluntarily, or rather in-voluntarily, taking his name off the books.

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When his connection with Cocky had thus been ruthlessly broken, 'the King' got into a better set, and retrieved his character."

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Don't sound too cocky.

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The moonlight revealed the complacent features; the cocky pose of serene confidence presented by the effigy affected the disheartened original with as acute a sense of exasperation as he would have felt if the statue had set thumb to nose and had wriggled the stone fingers in impish derision.

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He was displaying more of the new and cocky demeanor that had been his for some time.

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We all get too cocky sometimes."

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What if the purchaser be a soldier and an alien made cocky by victory and confident by overwhelming force?

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COCKY-LEEKY, a soup made of a cock, seasoned with leeks.

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COCKY-LEEKY, a soup made of a cock, seasoned with leeks.

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When I said I walked to-day, I really started on an old favourite horse called Cocky, that had carried me for years, and many a day have I had to thank him for getting me out of difficulties through his splendid powers of endurance.

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"That one," said I, pointing to old Cocky, and said, "That's Cocky."

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Then the boy went up to the horse, and said, "Cocky, you ridem me?"

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I gave the old fellow some old clothes (Tommy I had already dressed up), also some flour, tea, and sugar, and lifted the child on to old Cocky's saddle, which had a valise in front, with two straps for the monkey to cling on by.

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He did so for a bit, but slipping on one side, Cocky gave a buck, and sent Tommy flying into some stumps of timber cut down for the passage of the telegraph line, and the boy fell on a stump and broke his arm near the shoulder.

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Cocky got away when the accident occurred, and galloped after and found the others, and his advent evidently set them off a second time.

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My old horse Cocky had got bad again, in consequence of his galloping with the packhorses, and I left him behind me at the Charlotte, in charge of Mr. Johnston.

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I had a little black-and-tan terrier dog called Cocky, and Gibson had a little pup of the same breed, which he was so anxious to take that at last I permitted him to do so.

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When we arrived I left the others in camp and rode myself to the Charlotte Waters, expecting to get my old horse Cocky, and load him with 200 pounds of flour; but when I arrived there, the creek water-hole was dry, and all the horses running loose on the Finke.

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He had a habit of biting the dogs' noses, and it was only when they squealed that I saw what he was doing; to-day Cocky was the victim.

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In the middle of the night my little dog Cocky rushed furiously out of the tent, and began to bark at, and chase some animal round the camp; he eventually drove it right into the tent.

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