"Cock-a-hoop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... picture with you," said Mrs. Triplet, in one of those calm, little, desponding voices that fall upon the soul so agreeably when one is a cock-a-hoop, and desires, with ...
— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade
... distasteful to her, and she broke into fits of shrewishness. Pete hung his head and reproached himself. She wasn't to mind if he said things—he was only a rough fellow. Then she burst into tears and asked him to forgive her, and he was all cock-a-hoop in a moment, like a dog that is coaxed after it has ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine |
