The 855 occurrences of cocky
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He was short in stature, much shorter than the hulking fellows who stood and surveyed him through the smoke of their pipes, but he had such a cocky little way with him that he overawed them much more than a big man would have done.
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"All right, Cocky!
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"Nah ther's a chonce for thee, Cocky," sed one.
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"Tha knows aw connot sing," sed Cocky, "aw think Ike ud do better nor me."
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After th' cheerman had wakken'd up, two or three called for "Cocky," an' this time he gate up withaat ony excuses, an' although he did rock backards an' forrads like a clock pendlum th' wrang end up, yet aw must say he entered life an' soul into what he had to do, an' in a voice 'at seemed three times too big for the size ov his carcass he sang-- Lord John and John Lord were both born on a day, But their fortunes were different quite; Lord John was decked out in most gorgeous array, As soon as he first saw the light.
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Cocky!" sed Ike, "if aw'd a voice like thee aw'd travel!
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Those who were not in uniform carried themselves with a cocky smartness that belied their civilian clothes.
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"Talk about being cocky," said Gregson; "you should hear Captain Schenke bragging about the way he brought the _Hedwig Rickmers_ out.
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"Cocky as ever, Captain Schenke!
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They're too cocky.
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The clothing of a cocky teen-ager would have been impounded and his behavior watched.
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A frowzy, cocky-looking bird flew into the tree just above her head and balanced himself on the limb.
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Joe saw Mike scoot the red space wagon to it, stop short with a sort of cocky self-assurance, hook on to the tow-ring in the floating space-barge's nose, and blast off back toward the Platform with it in tow.
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She gurgled with laughter the whole evening, and lavished attentions upon Jimmie so flatteringly that he ceased to look furtively at me and became quite cocky before the evening was over, pretending that he had done all these things to help me entertain my guests.
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He was a young man; he gave Melroy the impression of having recently seen military service; probably in the Indonesian campaign of '62 and '63; he also seemed a little cocky and over-sure of himself.
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"There'll be no living with Wiggins now, he'll be so cocky," said Erebus bitterly.
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The fellow, an American, has a queer cocky irregular style: but he can write when he chooses: and in one shot he so fairly hit me between wind and water that I had to steal the book, carry it down to my cabin and copy out the passage for your benefit...
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She carried, the American told the captain of the _Didon_, only twenty guns of light calibre, and her captain and officers were "so cocky" that if they had a chance they would probably lay themselves alongside even the _Didon_ and become an easy prey.
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The yellow sides and royal yards rigged aloft told the "cocky" _Phoenix_ that the big ship to leeward was a Frenchman, and, with all sails spread, she bore down in the chase.
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The marines of that ship, however, drawn up in a steady line across the deck, resisted the whole rush of the French boarders; and the British sailors, tumbling up from their guns, cutlass and boarding-pike in hand, and wroth with the audacity of the "French lubbers" daring to board the "cocky little _Phoenix_," with one rush, pushed fiercely home, swept the Frenchmen back on to their own vessel.
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Cutler had practically abolished the daily details, had doubled his sentries, had established outlying pickets, and was even bent on throwing up intrenchments or at least digging rifle pits, lest the Apaches should feel so "cocky" over their temporary successes as to essay an attack on the post.
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Consaited and cocky, an full o' what's nowt, An shoo'd say nasty things withaat ivver a thowt; An shood try ivvery way, just to mak me get mad;--- For shoo knew shoo wor bonny,--soa bonny mi lad.
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Topside, on the radar bridge, was Roger Manning, cocky and brash, but a specialist in radar and communications.
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Therefore, certain cocky foreign fellows, upholders of the duty of fighting at the drop of the hat, have charged that our uncle would place peace above honor.
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I am a gentleman and I will enjoy slaughtering this ambitious cocky-doodle-doo.
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The door opened, and a young man, alert, almost cocky in manner, with black, snappy eyes showing behind horn-rimmed glasses, entered and reached for the sole chair that the room contained.
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But the hint of age was nullified by the cocky angle of the blue-knit cap upon his head, the blazing red of his double-breasted pearl-buttoned shirt, the flexible freedom of his muscles as he strode within.
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Cocky to a degree--simply think no end of themselves--and lose their hair altogether at the first little playful joke.
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"It's all the fault of that cocky little martinet," declared a third.
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He was tellin's aboot some o' the exyems in gomitry lest nicht, an', I'll swag, he garred Cocky Baxter, the auld dominie, chowl his chafts."
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Near as I could make out, Mallory goes for it in his polite, standoff, after-you way, and the closest he gets to Russky is a minute with a cocky secretary that says his Excellency is very sorry, but he'll be too busy to see him this trip--maybe next time, about 1912, he'll have an hour off.
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For two cents I'd tell what I know about you, you cheater, and we'd see how long you'd stay so cocky!"
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Perhaps, he told himself, Tom really didn't know anything about that plaguey book, but even so he needn't get so cocky about it!
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At first I thought I was sitting by the fireside, where the cat and the kittling were playing with a mouse they had catched in the meal-kit, cracking with James Batter on check-reels for yarn, and the cleverest way of winding pirns, when, all at once, I thought myself transplanted back to the auld world--forgetting the tailoring trade; broad and narrow cloth; worsted boots and Kilmarnock cowls; pleasant Dalkeith; our late yearly ploy; my kith and kindred; the friends of the people; the Duke's parks; and so on--and found myself walking beneath beautiful trees, from the branches of which hung apples, and oranges, and cocky-nuts, and figs, and raisins, and plumdamases, and corry-danders, and more than the tongue of man can tell, while all the birds and beasts seemed as tame as our bantings; in fact, just as they were in the days of Adam and Eve--Bengal tigers passing by on this hand, and Russian bears on that, rowing themselves on the grass, out of fun; while peacocks, and magpies, and parrots, and cockytoos, and yorlins, and grey-linties, and all birds of sweet voice and fair feather, sported among the woods, as if they had nothing to do but sit and sing in the sweet sunshine, having dread neither of the net of the fowler, the double-barrelled gun of the gamekeeper, nor the laddies' girn set with moolings of bread.
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But don't get too cocky, either.
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"Cocky one, ain't you?" asked the man who had brought in the plate.
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That from the cocky, self-sufficient Brent Taber?
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And Ferguson--your cocky Ferguson--stood and listened, until she had talked herself out, and then went away.
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She's just too damned cocky for _anybody's_ good."
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Baver of Falne had not learned anything, either--only Garlock's intervention saved the cocky and obstreperous Semolo from a mental blast that would have knocked him out cold.
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"Number Two's modest; Number One's cocky."
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Don't you be too cocky.
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"I wasn't going to do it, at any rate," said I, growing a little cocky, and deciding that some women, at any rate, can see more than meets the eye.
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Not in Latin only, but in Greek grammar, arithmetic, and English, and was naturally inclined to feel a little cocky of the result.
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I wrote to Tempest--rather a cocky letter, perhaps, but one full of delight at the prospect of joining him at Low Heath, and claiming his patronage and support.
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Not fresh, you know, nor cocky; but just as if he was as good as anybody, and allowed everybody was as good as him.
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All right--it was the only thing he had to be cocky about; and he meant to be cocky.
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"It's a pity, though; they'll be so jolly cocky, all that set, there'll be no enduring it.
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"Yes," said Parson; "and jolly cocky he is about it, too!"
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With a generosity very few appreciated, he forbore to claim Mr Parrett's assistance at all during the last few days of practice, but he got Fairbairn and one or two of the schoolhouse seniors instead, and with their help kept up the courage and hopes of the young Welchers, wisely taking care, however, by a little occasional judicious snubbing, to prevent them from becoming too cocky or sure of the result.
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"But she's too cocky.
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"Bateson and Jukes pulled off the kids' hundred yards; and jolly cocky they were, I can tell you.
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Roger, cocky and unafraid, broke out his engaging grin again and shrugged his shoulders.
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"Me only hab piecee cocky-fightee," answered Ching Wang as calmly as possible.
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But his eyes, as I could see, being close by, having been attracted by the row as most of us were, had altered their expression, now flashing with a peculiar glare as the Chinaman, with a more abject bow than before to the captain, asked him deferentially: "And dis one manee you tellee Ching Wang cocky-fightee one piecee--hi?"
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To Darius it seemed that Edwin's education was like lying down in an orchard in lovely summer and having ripe fruit dropped into your mouth... A cocky infant!
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I don't like boys to be cocky and impudent but I like a little self-dependence."
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"Don't seem to be no others, only that cocky-hoopy middy, who came ashore with the men.
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Dunno though; bit cocky and nose in air when he's in full uniform, and don't know which is head and which is his heels, but he aren't such a very bad sort o' boy.
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He's been growing as cocky as a bantam since we've been ill. We must take him down."
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"A bit cocky and bounceable at first, till you found that I wouldn't stand it, and then you were both civil."
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Come on, my red-nosed old cocky-wax, and we'll have a naval engagement, and sink you."
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When a horse has the megrims they bleed him in the ear, and judging that the same plan would do for a donkey they've bled cocky West there, and bull-headed Ingleborough on the skull."
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"And you shouldn't be a cocky, conceited little donkey," said the elder boy.
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I hope he'll soon settle down, because he seems to be the sort of fellow, if he wasn't quite so cocky, that one might come to like."
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"Well--er--I--er--that is--" "Here, I say, old chap, don't be so cocky.
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I don't want you to think me cocky and bragging.
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"He makes me feel as if I liked and could do anything for him sometimes, and then when he turns cocky I begin to want to punch his head."
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"Well, I am glad to hear you say so, for I tried to be, and the dad liked you because you were such a cocky, plucky little chap.
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"Yes; a cocky overbearing bully.
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"Ha, ha, Cocky Severn!
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"What a weather-cocky way you have got, Mas' Don.
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Cocky, how did you get your beak bent that way?
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Cocky and stuck-up; but what of that?
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Here, I mean to go and save the next black chap, and then perhaps I shall look as cocky as you do.
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"Only you've spoiled it by being so cocky.
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"I'm glad, after all, that Bob isn't here," thought Mark; "he'd be as jealous as could be, and say I was as cocky as a lieutenant who had just received his promotion.
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"Well, he is so cocky, Dick," said the middy, "and struts about, and--" "That's what I say, sir," said the old sailor, leaning his arms on the bulwark, "just like a gamecock."
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"Consequential--" "I tell you what it is--" "Cocky--" "I never heard--" "Unpleasant fellow that ever wore Her Majesty's uniform."
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He's a very cocky fellow, you know; but he's a good one at bottom."
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Bob Roberts had a tiff with Long, made vow after vow that he would never speak to the ensign again; declaring him to be a consequential cocky scarlet pouter pigeon, with as much strut in him as a bantam.
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"My word, they are cocky!
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It's your uniform and the wearing of a skewer that makes you all so cocky.
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Cocky, you called it.
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"Well, if you didn't," said Uncle Bob, "that cocky consequential small man of a boy, Cob, will be always going about with his nose in the air and sneering.
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"Quite right, my boy, so I was, and a conceited young rascal I was, almost as cocky as you are."
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That's why you were so cocky at first?"
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"Yes, you may stand there as cocky as you like with your pistols, but they don't frighten me.
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"Too cocky for me.
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"Why, what a cocky chap you are, Belt!
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"Here you are, cocky," he cried; and to the man's keen delight Punch thrust the pair of boots into his hands and gave him a hearty slap on the back.
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This made Tommy rather cocky at times; but he was a good-natured chap, and managed to live on good terms with everybody.
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A third round was to be played, but the younger party were so cocky that they proposed having four rounds.
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Please tell Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle that they're invited, and ask Goosey Lucy and Turkey Tim to come, too.
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Then the three started off together, and when they reached the Shady Forest, Twinkle Tail looked back and saw Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle coming up the Old Cow Path dressed in their Sunday clothes.
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Cocky Doodle made a pretty speech, wishing the Twinkle Tails a long life and a happy one, in which all the little people of the forest joined him.
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"Cock-a-doodle-do," said Cocky Doodle, and then Henny Penny cackled loudly: "I've laid an egg so white and clean 'Twould grace a breakfast for a queen.
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So the little rabbit didn't wait, but hopped along until he came to the edge of the forest, when he started to hop across the Sunny Meadow to the Old Barn Yard where Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle lived all the year 'round.
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Albert was rather cocky; also, rather restless--I wondered if he would last to _be_ a sophomore.