The 855 occurrences of cocky

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FIRST COCKY (on horseback)--"That cove ye've had wurrkin' for yer arsked me fur a job this mornin'.

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SECOND COCKY--"He was.

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And now she was in a new world, where she had to rise and remain standing while a cocky youth in ducks, just out of medical college, sauntered in with his hands in his pockets and took a _boutonnière_ from the ward bouquet.

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"Right you are, cocky!

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"I got cocky, old girl.

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I got so cocky about it I stopped to light a cigaret just to show the doboys that a battle or so didnt make no difference to me one way or the other.

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Leave _something_ to God Almighty--He managed to pull the cocky little brute through worse and tougher situations than Inglesby!

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"You're a cocky brute yourself," said Laurence, critically.

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It makes him cocky.

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X UNDER FIRE Bloated though he was with lawless wealth and fat with insufferable self-satisfaction, P. Sybarite, trotting by the side of his host, was dwarfed alike in dignity and in physique, strongly resembling an especially cocky and ragged Airedale being tolerated by a well-groomed St. Bernard.

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One burly sailor, whom we told to wait until the next boat came along, laughingly remarked [Transcriber: original 'remared'] while he was in the water, 'All right, Cocky, I will hold on by my eyebrows,' and he drifted to another galley.

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"Pretty Cocky!" said he.

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When Miss Betty got back to the window, John Broom had just made an injudicious grab at the steel chain, on which Pretty Cocky flew fiercely at him, and John, burying his face in his arms, received the attack on his thick poll, laughing into his sleeves and holding fast to the chain, whilst the cockatoo and the little ladies screamed against each other.

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But Cocky was now waddling solemnly round the room, and John Broom was creeping after him, with the end of the chain in one hand, and the perch in the other, and in a moment more he had joined the chain and the ring, and just as Miss Betty was about to send for the constable and have the door broken open, Cocky--driven into a corner--clutched his perch and was raised triumphantly to his place in the bow-window.

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She had unfastened that end which secured it to the perch, when Cocky, who had been watching the proceeding with much interest, dabbed at her with his beak.

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But in a quarter of a minute, Cocky had sailed a quarter of a mile, and was rocking himself on the top of an old willow-tree.

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And Pretty Cocky crept towards him, and rubbed its head against him and chuckled with joy.

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And when John Broom grasped him by both legs and began to descend, Cocky pecked him vigorously.

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"Cocky has been tamed," said Miss Kitty thoughtfully, "perhaps John Broom will get steadier by-and-by."

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It was Christmas Day, and so hot that he could not run far, for he was at the other side of the world, where things are upside down, and he sat down by the roadside on the outskirts of the city; and as he sat, with his thin, brown face resting on his hands, a familiar voice beside him said, "Pretty Cocky!" and looking up he saw a man with several cages of birds.

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The man gave him a shilling for fastening a ring and chain on to the Cocky's ankle, and with this he got the best dinner he had eaten since he lost sight of the farm-bailiff's speckled hat in the mist.

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As to Pretty Cocky, he lived, but Miss Kitty fancied that he grew less pretty and drooped upon his polished perch.

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The sheep dog had had his satisfaction out long ago, and had kept it to himself, but how Pretty Cocky crowed, and chuckled, and danced, and bowed his crest, and covered his face with his amber wings, and kicked his seed-pot over, and spilled his water-pot on to the Derbyshire marble chess-table, and screamed till the room rang again, and went on screaming, with Miss Kitty's pocket-handkerchief over his head to keep him quiet, my poor pen can but imperfectly describe.

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And he feels pretty cocky about it.

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He retained much of the shyness and diffidence that gives the freshman his charm, and he did not succeed very well in acquiring the swagger, the cocky, patronizing manner, the raucous self-assurance that characterize the true sophomore.

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That was how Cocky came.

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And next day came Cocky--perch and all complete--_for the little girl who loves birds_.

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Lettice was proud of Cocky, but Edward really loved him, and took trouble with him.

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And it was when I saw Edward sitting with Benjamin the cat, and two sparrows he had brought up by hand, struggling and laughing because Cocky would push itself, crest first, under his waistcoat, and come out at the top to kiss him--that an idea struck me; and I resolved to have a Happy Family for Uncle Patrick, and to act Showman myself.

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He was absolutely necessary as confederate, but it was possible Lettice might want to show off with Cocky, and I did not want a girl on the stage, so I said very little to her.

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He takes no notice of Cocky.

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Benjamin never quarrels with Cocky, but he dare not forget that Cocky is there.

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And Cocky sometimes looks at Benjamin's yellow eyes as if it were thinking how very easily they would come out.

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Lettice _did_ want to show off with Cocky.

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However, he let Cocky scold him and pull his hair, which was a safety-valve for Cocky.

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He knew Cocky wasn't watching for his yellow eyes.

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Bernard rose, and shook off everything, and Cocky went into screaming hysterics; above which I now heard the thud of Uncle Patrick's crutch, and the peals upon peals of laughter with which our audience greeted my long-planned spectacle of a Happy Family!

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That is all right, too, if you do it in the proper spirit, but nobody likes to see a fellow get "cocky" over his luck, no matter how good or how rare it is.

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An' all them hounds is sniffin' 'round, right pert, an' Bull is purty cocky, an' when I gets close enough, I hears Bull say: "'Hello, d'ye want t' fight?'

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"He's no more like one of our reg'lars than a canary is like one of them cocky little spadgers.

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He was not quite so cocky, but neither had he surrendered.

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They give us each 2 pair shoes one to march in with cleats on the bottom and a hat and a hat cord and 5 pair sox and 2 shirts and a belt and 3 suits under wear and 2 cocky suits.

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of me haveing been with the White Sox they fixed it so as I could go and the world serious opens up in Chi Saturday and I won't get away from here till Saturday noon so I can't get there for the first game but I will see the Sunday game and won't Gleason and them pop their eyes out when I go down to the bench with my cocky suit on and shake hands with them and I bet Rowland will wish I was wearing the White Sox uniform instead of Uncle Sam's uniform.

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It is a queer thing how nice disagreeable people can be when they want to, and that morning the entire Eppes family (even Sister Edwina, who's the limit) were so polite and pleasant that Father never would have imagined how cocky and sniffy they usually are.

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There's no use in letting a few wild Irish or cocky Germans scare us.

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We're even capable of becoming cocky and saucy to every one of you.

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Whatever the reason, these English are now more cocky and confident than they've been before since the war began.

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A LOVER IN COCKY It cannot be said that the bearers of the noblest names in the land flocked at first to the offices of Messrs. Gray and Graham.

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He kept on with his nonsense, asking her never to forget him, and sending his photograph in cocky.'

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And if he fell, she would see his ghost, in cocky, crossing her room, he said.

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She held off, and thanked her preserver; but she would be true, she said, to her lover in cocky.

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I am deeply anxious, apart from my own passion for her, to relieve her from a singular but not very uncommon delusion." p. 100 '"Meaning her lover in cocky," I said.

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'"There is no lover in cocky," says he.

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he huffed and he puffed ... but he could _not_ blow the house down At last he flew into a violent rage and flung his stick at the bird A spider one day attacked him "I will go first and you come after, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey" So she escaped The thorns closed in around her so that she was all scratched and torn Dick finds that the streets of London are not paved with gold Dick Whittington hears Bow Bells The old woman and her pig Headpiece--How Jack went out to seek his Fortune They both met together upon Nottingham bridge "A vengeance on her!" said they.

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So she went along, and she went along, and she went along, till she met Cocky-locky.

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"Where are you going, Henny-penny?" says Cocky-locky.

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"May I come with you?" says Cocky-locky.

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So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell the King the sky was falling.

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"Where are you going to, Henny-penny and Cocky-locky?" says Ducky-daddles.

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we're going to tell the King the sky's a-falling," said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky.

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"Certainly," said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky.

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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, and Ducky-daddles went to tell the King the sky was a-falling.

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"Where are you going to, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, and Ducky-daddles?" said Goosey-poosey.

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we're going to tell the King the sky's a-falling," said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky and Ducky-daddles.

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"Certainly," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, and Ducky-daddles.

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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey went to tell the King the sky was a-falling.

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"Where are you going, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey?" says Turkey-lurkey.

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we're going to tell the King the sky's a-falling," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey.

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"May I come with you, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey?" said Turkey-lurkey.

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"Oh, certainly, Turkey-lurkey," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, and Goosey-poosey.

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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey all went to tell the King the sky was a-falling.

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So they went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Foxy-woxy, and Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey, "Where are you going, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey?"

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And Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey said to Foxy-woxy, "We're going to tell the King the sky's a-falling."

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but this is not the way to the King, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey," says Foxy-woxy; "I know the proper way; shall I show it you?"

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"Oh, certainly, Foxy-woxy," said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.

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So Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lurkey, and Foxy-woxy all went to tell the King the sky was a-falling.

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But Foxy-woxy said to Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey, "This is the short cut to the King's palace: you'll soon get there if you follow me.

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I will go first and you come after, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey."

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"Why, of course, certainly, without doubt, why not?" said Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.

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[Illustration: "I will go first and you come after, Henny-penny, Cocky-locky Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey"] So Foxy-woxy went into his burrow, and he didn't go very far but turned round to wait for Henny-penny, Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, and Turkey-lurkey.

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Then Cocky-locky strutted down into the burrow, and he hadn't gone far when-- "Hrumph!"

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But Cocky-locky _will_ always crow whether you want him to do so or not, and so he had just time for one "Cock-a-doo-dle d--" before he went to join Turkey-lurkey, Goosey-poosey, and Ducky-daddles over Foxy-woxy's shoulders.

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Now when Henny-penny, who had just got into the dark burrow, heard Cocky-locky crow, she said to herself: "My goodness!

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Do you remember, John, how we used to call him 'Vaulting Ambition,' because he won the high jump and was a cocky beggar in general?"

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The flight and recapture of Cocky in "Lob" were drawn from life, though the bird did not belong to her, but her descriptions of how he stood on the window-sill "scanning the summer sky with his fierce eyes, and flapping himself in the breeze,... bowed his yellow crest, spread his noble wings, and sailed out into the æther";... and his "dreams of liberty in the tree-tops," all show the light in which she viewed the practice of keeping birds in confinement.

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"He'll be so cocky that he'll dare me to fire him if I say a word, and grin in my face, for he knows now that he's a good man and that I know it and will never let him go."

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"Say, cocky, what have you been doing to yourself?" he demanded in amazement.

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"Very kind of you, old cocky," he declared, tremulously.

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The "cocky" would be resplendent again in his soft collar and red tie, and the city clerk in starched collar and cuffs.

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This last is merely molasses or "golden syrup" called "bullocky's joy," sometimes "cocky's delight" because it is the chief covering for slices of bread with the bullock-driver or cocky farmer in Australia.

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I rolled out next mornin' feelin' fine and silky; but not so cocky by half.

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He's just cocky enough for that.

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"'Vast there, Cocky!

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I was amused the other day by the entrance of my friend the Maohn, attended by Osman Effendi and his cawass and pipe-bearer, and bearing a saucer in his hand, wearing the look, half sheepish, half cocky, with which elderly gentlemen in all countries announce what he did, _i.e_., that his black slave-girl was three months with child and longed for olives, so the respectable magistrate had trotted all over the bazaar and to the Greek corn-dealers to buy some, but for no money were they to be had, so he hoped I might have some and forgive the request, as I, of course, knew that a man must beg or even steal for a woman under these circumstances.

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