"Gamecock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such a robust old gamecock spirit in a valetudinarian, to call it a religious spirit would be odd. Yet it is for the moment Voltaire's reaction on the whole of life. Je me'n fiche is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation "Who cares?" ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... privileged," he cried, strutting about like a gamecock, "to be present at one of the typical decisive battles of history—the battles which have determined the fate of the world. What, my friends, is the conquest of one nation by another? It is meaningless. Each produces the same result. ...
— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle
... said Yeo; "he will make a brave gamecock in a year or two, if he dares ruffle up so early at a tough old hen-master ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... my young gamecock!" she shouted, in a deep voice, strangely cracked. "And so you're at your old tricks again, are you? Talking sedition I'll be bound. I've half a mind to turn informer and have the law on you. The dear lamb!" she added, ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
... to say I'm tipsy?" demanded Steve, ruffling up like a little gamecock, for though he saw now what he had done and was ashamed of it, he hated to have Mac air his peculiar ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... to keep out of harm's way, my young gamecock. I have undertaken to deliver you to your esteemed uncle with arms and legs intact, and ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine
... pheasants by bringing an armed gamecock into the woods and hiding themselves, while the domesticated bird challenges and gives battle to the unarmed wild one. The boldness of cock pheasants during their breeding time is wonderful; many instances having come under my notice ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
... in your pocket for a few hours, my gamecock, and my heiress to a beggar-girl, I'll have stone walls between ...
— Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession • Benjamin Wood
... may admire such a robust old gamecock spirit in a valetudinarian, to call it a religious spirit would be odd. Yet it is for the moment Voltaire's reaction on the whole of life. Je me'n fiche is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation "Who cares?" And the happy term je me'n fichisme recently has been ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James |
