weathercock

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Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Often dollar-hostile, the newsorgans of Baron Beaverbrook veered around like weathercocks last week to crow the praises of dollars in general and of newly-arrived Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, dollar Croesus.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a gust of wind, then, so strong that it rattled the windows of the village, and whirled and spun the weathercocks until they could not tell north from west or south from east.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

"Not I," growled Barlowe, and Armadas laughed, "My Lord, do you think so ill of us as to deem us weathercocks in the wind?"

From Days of the Discoverers by Choate, Florence

They somewhat resembled weathercocks, but were fat and stupid and thought only of stuffing themselves with food.

From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)