cockerel
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The video, which was partly recorded inside the prison, shows him caressing a fighting cockerel and freely chatting to fellow inmates.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
The sculpture of a cockerel was one of hundreds of Benin Bronzes that were pillaged from the once mighty Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now Nigeria.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
After being looted, the cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
A cockerel laying an egg, after all, was a "heinous and unnatural crime," the court found.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2021
Was this the boy in the mask who had strutted like a cockerel ahead of the others across St. Mark’s Square?
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
Harrison, the youngest of four children, previously lived with his parents Harold and Louise - and the family's pet cockerels - in a small house in Arnold Grove, Wavertree.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2021
People depend on the land, with dozens heading off to work in the fields as morning breaks, having been woken by cockerels.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2019
Critics say that backyard flock owners’ demand for day-old pullets, or female chicks, leads to more cockerels, or male chicks, being culled or slipping through to eventually wind up in need of homes or dumped.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
In the late 1960s, the International Dairy Federation paid Yudkin to conduct sugar studies in pigs, rats, cockerels, and humans.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018
And we stood there, face to face, under the flat prairie sunlight, ridiculously like two cockerels silently estimating each other’s intentions.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
