cockerel
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The video shows Fito caressing a fighting cockerel and freely chatting to fellow inmates.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024
After being looted, the cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
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
A bronze cockerel kept at Cambridge University that had been looted in a British raid on what is now Nigeria will be handed back this month.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2021
After all, it could easily have been understood that I was suggesting the landlord's wife resembled a cockerel - an intention that had not remotely entered my head at the time.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Police commissioner Nimio Cardozo said Rotela, who leads the criminal clan of the same name, lived in comfort in The Jungle along with his pregnant wife, his dogs and his cockerels.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2023
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
There was also a thing about people bringing cockerels to the matches – in the 1960s, I think – because the cockerel was on the club’s badge.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017
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
