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
After being looted, the cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
A statue of a cockerel is one priceless artefact soon to be welcomed home, after Jesus College handed it over to a delegation from Nigeria at a ceremony at Cambridge University on Wednesday.
From BBC ● 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
The dogs flanked the procession and at the head of all marched Napoleon’s black cockerel.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
"We recently accepted a group of dumped cockerels, for which we had no history on these abandoned animals," a spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2022
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
Probably everyone has seen two young cockerels, standing with their bills together, apparently lost in a Buddhistic reverie, suddenly broken by violence.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips
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