The 855 occurrences of cocky
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"What have you found out that makes you so cocky to-night?" he challenged the editor with interest.
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_Page 12._] The cockatoo looked into Herbert's kind eyes, and said as plainly as he could, "Pretty Cocky."
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Well, the animal that stole my mother was so very like a cat, that I cannot help hating everything that looks like one.--But don't you think, sir, Mr. Cocky is staying out beyond his time.
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Jane, the visitor, was calling him "Ugly Cocky!
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bad Cocky!
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"You don't need to look so cocky, Rodger," cried a cynical voice in the crowd.
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They were less loud, and, as other boys would have said of them, less "cocky" than of yore.
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They were showering blessings upon Helena, who was walking about with a cocky little stride, well pleased with herself.
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"Then what's the good of gettin' cocky and calling it scarlet?"
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Don't get cocky.
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I don't think there is anything to be cocky about; for the thing at Aldershot was pure luck, and so it was the other day.
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* * * * * Successes in Russia have made the people here very cocky.
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COCKY LEEKY.
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Anchovy Sauce, 64 Antispasmodic Tea, 97 Apples, baked, 57 Apple Dumplings, baked, 53 Apple Pudding, 30 Apple-water Drink, 90 Arrow-root, how to prepare, 84 Arrow-root Pudding, 89 Bacon and Cabbages, boiled, 47 Bacon and Cabbage Soup, 18 Bacon, how to cure, 26 Bacon Roll-pudding, 38 Balm and Burrage Tea, 92 Barley Water, 93 Batter and Fruit Pudding, 30 Batter-pudding, how to make a small, 87 Beef and Potatoes, baked, 35 Beef, boiled, 13 Beef, how to boil, 13 Beefsteaks, plain, 42 Beef Tea, 81 Beer, how to brew your own, 65 Belgian Faggots, 41 Biscuits, hard, 69 Black Puddings, 27 Blancmange, how to make, 86 Bouillabaisse Soup, 63 Bran Tea, a Remedy for colds, etc., 90 Bread, how to bake your own, 68 Bread Pudding, for a family, 29 Bread-pudding, how to make a tea-cup, 88 Bread Sauce, for a Roast Fowl, 20 Broad Beans, how to cook, 74 Broth made from bones for Soup, 16 Brown and Polson Fruit Pudding, 32 Brown and Polson Pudding, 31 Brown and Polson Tea-cup Pudding for infants, 89 Brown and Polson Thick Milk, 32 Bullock's Heart, baked, 39 Bullock's Heart, stuffed, 39 Bubble and Squeak, 46 Burns or Scalds, a Cure for, 98 Cabbage and Bacon, fried, 73 Calf's-feet Jelly, how to make, 85 Camomile Tea, 91 Caudle, how to make, 84 Cheese, Italian, 28 Chicken Broth, 82 Chicken Broth, cheap, 82 Chilblains, a Cure for, 97 Christmas Plum Pudding, 50 Cocky Leeky, 19 Cocoa Nibs, how to prepare, 99 Cod's Head, baked, 63 Coffee, how to make, 98 Cold in the Head, a Cure for, 98 Colds, how to make a cordial for, 94 COOKERY AND DIET FOR THE SICK-ROOM, 81 Cough, a Cure for a hard dry, 95 Cow-heel Broth, 18, 85 Currant Jam, 55 Dandelion Tea, 97 Drink, a cooling, 95 Ducks, baked or roast, 24 Dumplings, Norfolk, 33 Dumplings, Yeast, 33 ECONOMICAL AND SUBSTANTIAL SOUP FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THE POOR, 99 Economical Pot Liquor Soup, 14 Eels, stewed, 34 Egg-hot, 78 Eggs and Bacon, fried, 77 Eggs, buttered, 77 Egg Sauce for Roast Fowls, etc., 20 Eggs stewed with Cheese, 78 Eggs with Brown Butter, 77 Elder Wine, how to make, 57 Fish, baked, 63 Fish Curry, how to make a, 48 Fish Pie, 37 Fish, salt, with Parsnips, 62 Fish Soup, 60 Fish Soup, how to make large quantities for distribution to the poor, 101 Fish, to boil, 64 Fish, to fry, 61 French Beans, how to cook, 74 Fruit Pies in general, 52 Gargle, how to make a stringent, 95 Giblet Pie, 37 Gingerbread Nuts, 70 Ginger-pop, 78 Goose, baked, 23 Gooseberry Jam, how to make, 56 Gravy, brown, for Roast Fowls, etc., 20 Ground-rice Milk, how to make, 87 Ground-rice Pudding, 89 Gruel, Brown and Polson, 83 Gruel, how to make, 83 Gruel, how to make with Pearl Barley, 85 Gruel made with Oatmeal, 84 Hams, how to cure, 25 Hams, how to smoke, 26 Hare, jugged, 46 Haricot Beans, a Salad of, 76 Haricot Beans, how to dress, 75, 76 Haricot Beans, white, 75 Hashed Meats, 43 Herrings, red, a dinner of, 61 Hop Tea, 96 Hyssop Tea, a Remedy for Worms, 96 Iceland-moss Jelly, 86, 96 Irish Stew, 60 Isinglass Jelly, how to prepare, 87 Jam Pudding, 51 Jam Tart, 53 Kidney Pudding, 43 Leg of Beef, stewed, 18 Lemonade, how to make, 90 Lentils, 76 Lime-flower Tea, 96 Linseed Tea, 91 Mackerel, soused, 61 Meat Panada for Invalids and Infants, 82 Meat Pie, 37 MEDICINAL, HERBACEOUS, AND OTHER DRINKS FOR INVALIDS, ETC., 90 Milk, thick for breakfast, 16 Mince-meat, a cheap kind of, 52 Mince-pie, how to make a, 53 Mince-pie Paste, 52 Muscles, or Mussels, stewed, 34 Mustard, how to mix, 81 Mutton Broth, 81 Mutton Chops, or Steaks, 43 Mutton, Shoulder of, boiled, and Onions, 36 Oatmeal Porridge for Six Persons, 16 Omelet, how to make an, 77 Onions, baked or roasted, 74 Onion Soup for Six Persons, 15 Orangeade, or Orange Drink, 90 Ox-cheek Soup, 17 Ox Kidney, stewed, 39 Oysters, stewed, 34 Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday, 54 Parsley Sauce, 64 Parsnips, buttered, 73 Pears, baked, 56 Peas and Bacon, 74 Pea Soup for Six Persons, 15 Pig's Feet, 28 Pig's Fry, 42 Pig's Head, baked, 23 Pig, how to make the most of, after it is killed, 24 Pig's Pluck, how to dispose of, 27 Pig, Sucking, baked, 24 Plum Broth, 79 Plum or Currant Dough Pudding, 50 Plum Porridge, cold, 79 Pork Chops, grilled or boiled, 20 Pork, roast, 45 Potatoes, baked or roasted, 71 Potatoes, baked, mashed, 72 Potatoes, how to boil, 70 Potatoes, how to fry, 71 Potatoes, how to mash, 72 Potatoes, how to steam, 70 Potatoes, how to stew, 72 Potatoes, mashed with Ling, 72 Potato Pie, 38 Potato Pudding, 32 Potato Soup for Six Persons, 14 Prunes, or Pruens, stewed, 79 Pudding, baked Suet, 36 Pudding made of small Birds, 22 Pudding, Yorkshire, 35 Pumpkin Porridge, 58 Rabbit Pudding, 38 Raisinet, a Preserve for Winter, 54 Red Cabbages, how to stew, 93 Rhubarb, how to preserve, 56 Rhubarb Pie, 51 Rice and Apples, 31 Rice, curried, 28 Rice Dumplings, 49 Rice Gruel, a Remedy for Relaxed Bowels, 84 Rice-milk for Six Persons, 59 Rice Pudding, a Ground, 29 Rice Pudding, a Plain, 29 Rice, the way to boil, 49 Rice Water, 94 Roast Fowl and Gravy, 19 Sage or Marygold Tea, 92 Sago for Invalids, how to prepare, 83 Sago Pudding, 89 Salad, a Bacon, 80 Salad, a Plain, 80 Salad, a Summer, 80 Salad, Celery Crab, 80 Sauce for Sweet Puddings, 50 Sausage Dumplings, 45 Sausages, Pork, how to make, 27 Sausage Rolls, 45 Sausages, stewed, 42 Seam, or Loose Fat, how to melt down, 28 Sharp Sauce for Broiled Meats, 21 Sheep's-head Broth, 17 Sheep's Heads, baked, 40 Sheep's Pluck, 40 Sheep's Trotters, stewed, 40 Sick-diet Jelly, how to make, 87 Skate, baked, 64 Soothing Drink for Coughs, 91 Sore Throat attended with Fever, refreshing Drink for, 97 Soup for the Poor, how to prepare a large quantity of good, 100, 101 Spinach, how to cook, 73 Sprains, a Cure for, 97 Steaks, fried, and Onions, 41 Steaks, stewed, 41 Sting of Wasps or Bees, a Cure for, 98 Supper, a Relish for, 76 Swedish Turnips, buttered, 73 Tapioca, how to prepare, 83 Tapioca Pudding, 88 Toad in the Hole, 36 Toast Water, 93 Toothache, a Cure for, 98 Treacle Posset, 94 Treacle Pudding, 30 Tripe, baked, 45 Tripe, boiled, 44 Veal and Rice Broth, 82 Veal Cutlets and Bacon, 22 Veal, Knuckle of, and Rice, 59 Veal, roast, stuffed, 21 Vegetable Marrow, how to cook, 74 Vegetable Porridge, 58 Vegetable Pottage, economical, 47 Welsh Rarebit, how to make a, 78 White Wine Whey, 94 Wind on the Stomach, a simple Remedy against, 95 Yorkshire Pie-clates for Tea, 69 THE END.
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"That examiner is a kind of a cocky little rooster, is n't he?" he commented.
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If it occurs to any one of them anywhere to say: "Well, here is a cocky Englishman who is over here to make some money, but who is unable to resist the temptation to harangue us on our shortcomings"--just that minute you are damned--irrevocably damned.
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I was once cocky and putting in my tongue like you where something of sense would have made me keep it between my teeth.
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"I will convince you of that," says Doc Pinphoodle, speakin' up brisk and cocky, "by putting to this young lady a few pertinent questions."
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The man with the want took up the rear, whimpering as he ran, feeling again, it might be, a child fleeing from maternal chastisement: the rest of us went silently, all but Stewart, who was a cocky little man with a large bonnet pulled down on the back of his head like a morion, to hide the absence of ears that had been cut off by the law for some of his Appin adventures.
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I don't know whether it was good or bad for him--contemporary psychology isn't in my line--but I knew I couldn't trust a cocky kid.
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And she said,-- "Oh, Cocky-locky, the clouds are falling, and I am going to tell the king."
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And Cocky-locky said,-- "I will go with you, Henny-penny."
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So Cocky-locky and Henny-penny they gaed, and they gaed, and they gaed, till they met a Duck.
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So the Duck said,-- "Where are you going to-day, Cocky-locky and Henny-penny?"
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And Ducky-daddles said,-- "I will go with you, Cocky-locky and Henny-penny."
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So Ducky-daddles, and Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny, they gaed, and they gaed, and they gaed, till they met a Goose.
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So the Goose said,-- "Where are you going to-day, Ducky-daddles, Cocky-locky and Henny-penny?"
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And Goosie-poosie said,-- "I will go with you, Ducky-daddles, Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny."
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So Goosie-poosie, and Ducky-daddles, and Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny, they gaed, and they gaed, and they gaed, till they met a Turkey.
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So the Turkey said,-- "Where are you going to-day, Goosie-poosie, Ducky-daddles, Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny?"
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And Turkey-lurky said,-- "I will go with you, Goosie-poosie, Ducky-daddles, Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny."
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So Turkey-lurky, and Goosie-poosie, and Ducky-daddles, and Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny, they gaed, and they gaed, and they gaed, till they met a Fox.
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So the Fox said,-- [Illustration] "Where are you going to-day, Turkey-lurky, Goosie-poosie, Ducky-daddles, Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny?"
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And the Fox said,-- "Come with me, Turkey-lurky, Goosie-poosie, Ducky-daddles, Cocky-locky, and Henny-penny, and I will show you the road to the king's house."
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So they all gaed, and they gaed, and they gaed, till they came to the Fox's hole; and the Fox took them all into his hole, and he and his young cubs eat up first poor Henny-penny, then poor Cocky-locky, then poor Ducky-daddles, then poor Goosie-poosie, and then poor Turkey-lurky; and so they never got to the king to tell him that the clouds had fallen on the head of poor Henny-penny.
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"They seemed quite cocky over them, poor idiots.
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And then they must have been cocky enough about their amateur psychiatry and interested enough in me (the White Horse knows why) to go ahead with a program almost any psychiatrist would be bound to yike at.
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He just looked sneaky-innocent, like he knew a lot but wouldn't tell, and I found myself think of a little silver-framed photo Sid had used to keep there too of a cocky German-looking young actor with "Erich" autographed across it in white ink.
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As Larry was wont to observe with great satisfaction, and, usually, with his mouth full of victuals-- "Sure it's the hoith o' livin' we have--what with cocky-nuts, an' taros an' bananas, an' young pigs for the killin', an' ginger-beer for the drinkin', an' penny loaves growin' on the trees for nothin', wid no end o' birds, an' pots ready bilin', night an' day, to cook 'em in--och!
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He was too sure of himself--altogether too cocky.
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Mirestone certainly was not cocky now.
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"Don't be so cocky, Rifle," said Norman quietly.
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He went in and came out quite cocky like.
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| | Cocky Locky and Henny Penny.
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"But sometimes you can't afford to be too cocky.
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And with all his money he ain't a mite cocky.
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"If I can take down and send any messages at all I shall feel pretty cocky."
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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 moorlings of bread.
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Doubtless this was rash, but I felt immensely "cocky" about my brigade, and believed that it would prove equal to any demand.
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Then she ran up stairs with light steps, ruffling her plumes like a cocky little lady-wren as she went back to the dreariness where Mrs. Quincy sat rocking her inevitable creaking chair.
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Baird heard the skipper grumbling: "_Damned cocky!_" He roared suddenly: "_Mr. Baird!
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He has for next-door neighbour a sad old reprobate--Cocky, the big Triton cockatoo--who abuses him horribly.
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The fact is, they both occupy a recess which once Cocky had all to himself, and now Cocky bullies the intruder up hill and down dale; although little Scops would gladly go somewhere else if he could, and takes no notice of Cocky's uncivil bawlings further than to lift his near wing apprehensively at each outburst.
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He and I have not been able to improve our acquaintance greatly, partly because he is out of reach, and partly because Cocky's conversation occupies most of his time.
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Go and bid my Cocky come out to me; I will give her some instructions, I will reason with her before I go.
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Nay, Cocky, Cocky, nay, dear Cocky, don't cry, I was but in jest, I was not, ifeck.
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Nay, Cocky.
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Nay, dear Cocky--ifeck, you'll break my heart--ifeck you will.
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What, not love Cocky!
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Poor Cocky, kiss Nykin, kiss Nykin, ee, ee, ee.
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Here will be the good man anon, to talk to Cocky and teach her how a wife ought to behave herself.
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Bye, Cocky.
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Bye, Cocky, bye, bye.
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Cocky, Cocky, where are you, Cocky?
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I'll shut this door to secure him from coming back--Give me the key of your cabinet, Cocky.
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Behind me a cocky voice asked, "What's cooking around here, chum?"
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Zeckler's face was dark with a week's beard, and his bloodshot eyes belied the cocky grin on his lips.
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But I didn't feel so cocky going down.
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It looks to me as if there must be somebody always ready to read some kind of fiction, but his affections are weather-cocky."
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But, above all, who can forget that his King Jamie, amidst the splendors of Whitehall, thinks himself an ill-used monarch unless his first course includes _cocky-leeky_?
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Thin, scratchy, inaudible more than a yard away, weary but still cocky, there leaked from the shape in the hollow the sound of a human voice.
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He was very cocky, and pushed out either cheek importantly with his tongue.
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A Modern Jeffreys--Penal Servitude for Life--End of the Primrose Way--A Resolve--Will Fortune Ever Smile Again?--Newgate to Chatham Prison--A Cocky Little Major--You Were Sent Here to Work--In the Mud--Night and Silence.
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In this feelie it is as if Mr. Rowe, the actor, dies and imparts only his life force to the character of the cocky youngster who comes fully alive without the slightest trace of the personality of Jason Rowe.
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"There, don't you be so cocky, young man.
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Tom and I both agreed on this when talking over the matter subsequently; so, seeing what a chicken-hearted fellow he was, my _cocky_ little chum sat down again and began tucking into his tea, Andrews getting up presently and sneaking away when he thought the coast clear.
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When a lad's got sodger's clothes on, I reckon as aa' it makes him feel cocky.
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Ramos--Miguel Ramos Alvarez--only stood with his black-visored cap pushed back on his head, and a cocky smirk of good humor on his mouth.
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He was lean, cocky, twenty-four, with a stiff bristle of blond hair.
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"Cocky, aren't you, Pal?" he chuckled.
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But the enormity of the Belt made them cocky.
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"Discouraged!" said Stover disdainfully: "Why, old Cocky-wax, put this in your pipe and smoke it--I'm going to own this house.
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And all because he had, years before, mistaken him for a commercial traveler and called him "Old Cocky-wax!"
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He was as stwong as two bulls, an' he'd kill a dwagon before bweakfast, an' never be cocky about it--" Angel and I groaned in unison.
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Zoroaster and Zendavesta came on very Cocky, and for the 7,800th Time Zoroaster asked Zendavesta: "Who wuz it I seen you comin' up the Street with?"
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The Author is very Cocky.
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So she went along, and she went along, and she went along till she met Cocky-locky.
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"Where are you going, Henny-penny?" says Cocky-locky.
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"May I come with you?" says Cocky-locky.
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So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell the king the sky was falling.
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"Where are you going to, Henny-penny and Cocky-locky?" says Ducky-daddles.
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we're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling," says Henny-penny and Cocky-locky.