"Gamecock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Yeo; "he will make a brave gamecock in a year or two, if he dares ruffle up so early at a tough old hen-master ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... such a robust old gamecock spirit in a valetudinarian, to call it a religious spirit would be odd. Yet it is for the moment Voltaire's reaction on the whole of life. Je me'n fiche is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation "Who cares?" ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... my young gamecock!" she shouted, in a deep voice, strangely cracked. "And so you're at your old tricks again, are you? Talking sedition I'll be bound. I've half a mind to turn informer and have the law on you. The dear lamb!" she added, ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
... may admire such a robust old gamecock spirit in a valetudinarian, to call it a religious spirit would be odd. Yet it is for the moment Voltaire's reaction on the whole of life. Je me'n fiche is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation "Who cares?" And the happy term je me'n fichisme recently has been ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... you are of the fighting variety . . . a regular gamecock! I like a person who treats with scant ceremony that ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont |
