The 855 occurrences of cocky
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---- leek soup, or cocky leeky, 205 201 ---- lamb stew, 205 ib.
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Dick Harrington floundered helplessly for words--"I never thought----" "I was getting pretty cocky about my own goodness, I guess," Burton went on quietly.
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Cocky Doodle had all he could do to keep the Barnyard Folk out of danger.
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Cocky Doodle and Henny Penny shut their eyes.
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"O Cocky Doodle!" cried Henny Penny, "my nest has been robbed.
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AT THE FARM "ALL right, come along," said Cocky Doodle, and he started back for the Old Farm, followed by Henny Penny and the little bunny.
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"I'm going over to the Old Farm with Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle," answered her little bunny boy.
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"I don't think so, Mrs. Rabbit," said Cocky Doodle; "he's a very kind farmer."
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After that away went the three little people, Cocky Doodle, with his bright red comb, and Henny Penny in her pretty gray speckled feathers, and Little Jack Rabbit, in his fur waistcoat, white as the big clouds that chased Mr. Merry Sun over the bright blue sky.
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"This is Little Jack Rabbit," said Cocky Doodle.
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"Come again," said Cocky Doodle.
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"Don't cry," said Cocky Doodle kindly.
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"He was up when Cocky Doodle sang his Sun Song this morning."
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"Mother says Cocky Doodle is better than an alarm clock, for you don't have to wind him."
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LITTLE JACK RABBIT STUBS HIS TOE COCKY DOODLE stood by the Big Red Barn and clapped his wings.
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"Cocky Doodle is calling."
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"Cock-a-doodle-do," sang Cocky Doodle.
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Cocky Doodle and Henny Penny accepted at once; so did Goosey Lucy; and as soon as they had packed their things, they set out for the Old Duck Pond.
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"Suit yourself," said Cocky Doodle.
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Why, he thinks he's more wonderful than Cocky Doodle."
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"Cocky Doodle's the most wonderful of all the Feathered Folk, for he's the one who wakes up Mr. Merry Sun.
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Cocky Doodle is the cock-a-doodle-do clock of the whole wide world.
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Little Jack Rabbit liked to go there, for all the Barnyard Folk were very nice to him, especially Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle, who always gave him some of their corn.
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"Henny Penny and Cocky Doodle are your friends," she told him, "but I'm not so sure about Mr. Farmer."
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One day when the little bunny hopped into the Old Farm Yard he heard Cocky Doodle say: "It's a beautiful sleigh!"
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Mrs. Rabbit was looking out of the window, and as soon as she saw them way up high in the clear blue sky, she rang the supper bell, and Cocky Doodle sang: "Home again, my little rabbit, That's the place to be.
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In the restaurant he talked with a cocky little bald-headed man all spruced up and dandyish.
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This isn't a cocky farmer's cow-paddock."
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But on last Valentine's Day it seems that she got an awfully cocky, cheeky valentine of an old maid putting on a wig and painting her face, and it had the Stoke-Pogis post-mark, and she took it into her head that Bill had sent it, flew into a most awful rage, and sent for her solicitor and changed her will.
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Not infrequently I gain much amusement observing these cocky youngsters who strut in the blue-and-silver uniforms of the Service in which, until more or less recently, I bore the rank of Commander.
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Play commenced: and, whether Cocky fancied that a clerk must feel Quite sufficient honor came of bending over one green baize, I the scribe with him the warrior,--guessed no penman dared to raise Shadow of objection should the honor stay but playing end More or less abruptly,--whether disinclined he grew to spend Practice strictly scientific on a booby born to stare At--not ask of--lace-and-ruffles if the hand they hide plays fair,-- Anyhow, I marked a movement when he bade me 'Cut!'
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'Now, my clerkling,' chuckled Cocky with a grin As the levelled piece quite touched me, 'Now, Sir Counting-House, repeat That expression which I told you proved bad manners!
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"Twenty-five Years ago this matter happened: and 'tis certain," added Clive, "Never, to my knowledge, did Sir Cocky have a single breath Breathed against him: lips were closed throughout his life, or since his death, For if he be dead or living I can tell no more than you.
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All I know is--Cocky had one chance more; how he used it,--grew Out of such unlucky habits, or relapsed, and back again Brought the late-ejected devil with a score more in his train,-- That's for you to judge.
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Jeff looked at him in admiration, he was so cocky and so sure.
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The people are immeasurably polite, and yet often unendurably cocky and conceited.
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He sat on his heels by the canvas, with the boss sheepman on the other side, and the Mexicans who had been so cocky took their plates and retired like Apaches to the edge of the brush, where they would not obtrude upon their betters.
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The shop-keepers expected that their customers would have twice the money to spend in future, and the working folks began to be cocky with their employers, saying that they would get much better wages at the great factory.
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COCKY Cock"y, a. Etym: [See Cocket.]
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Cock, Cocket, Cocky, Cockade.]
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"What the hell's going on here?" asked the cocky little terrestial who was skipper, stepping out and surveying the castaways.
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Cassy, ignorant of the psychology of it, equally unaware that familiarity which may breed contempt can also dissolve dislike, and feeling merely a lessening of her instinctive hostility, told herself that he was perhaps not as cocky as he looked and drank of the glass before her.
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Moreover, though he looked cocky, he did not presume.
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He must tell himself stories to pass the time; and he started to relate the interminable legend of Cocky-locky and Henny-Penny who by their superior subtlety evaded the snares set for them by Toddy-Loddy the fox.
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Which would have given Ed Sorenson a fresh jolt in his breathing apparatus if he had overheard, and shriveled the cocky self-assurance with which he sipped a high-ball that moment at Vorse's bar.
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But it serves you right for being so cocky and obstinate when you had such chances along with us."
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There were many theories, however, and the speculations of the learned often sound as quaint in retrospect as do the cocky assertions of the quack bills.
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He's a cocky old guy, as you know, isn't afraid of any single thing on earth and it galls him to have me go along to play nursemaid.
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Cocky, cunty, cocky, cunty," he sang out, "look here,--come and feel it."
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Cocky-bendy's lying sick, Guess ye what'll mend him?
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INDEX OF FIRST LINES Page A baby was sleeping 32 About the seasons 22 A blue and white sky 4 A bushel of March dust 1 A Cheshire man 37 A cold April 1 Adam lay 36 Adam was supposed 36 A Friday dream 7 A good child 112 A litel grounde 109 And so you do not 46 An old story 78 A peacock picked 77 A penny for the chappin' stick 113 April, June 12 A robin and a titter-wren 74 A robin red-breast 5 A skylark wounded 5 A stands for Age 88 A stands for Apple 87 As I sat under 10 As I was going along 115 As I was going to Derby 52 As many days 105 A shower of rain 2 As Tommy 50 A superstition prevails 32 At Easter let your clothes 2 At ten a child 108 Autumn wheezy 9 A wet Good Friday 2 Baby, baby 30 Baby cry 25 Bishop, Bishop 83 Bobby Shaft 111 Born of a Monday 110 Cherries a ha'penny 113 Clemany, Clemany 16 Cocky-bendy 113 Come, butter, come 104 Come, my little Robert 43 Commodore Rogers 112 Cooing, cooing 81 Cuckoo oats 2 Daddy Neptune 116 Dance a baby 29 Dicky bird 73 Did you ever see 117 Dinah, Dinah 100 Ding dong 101 Dinty diddledy 100 Dragon fly 82 Dusky sister 81 Eat an apple 7 Eat, birds, eat 75 Essex stiles 106 Farmers' wives 3 February borrowed 15 February fill the dyke 15 Find odd-leaved ash 7 "Fire!
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He had his witness, named Joseph Wurzel: called in the village "Cocky," inasmuch as it was generally considered that he set much by his wisdom: and was possessed of considerable attainments.
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I begin to know I ought to feel sheepish and beat, but somehow I feel cocky instead, I laugh and say, 'Well, I am bound to break something down'--and suddenly see.
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Pretty cocky, aren't you?