In the pouter, although the breast-bone has been shortened by 18½ per cent.
He is so conscious of his bigness, and makes chests at you like a pouter pigeon.
Persis herself was like a pouter pigeon strutting and preening her high breast.
Let us recognize it as an exquisite creation of art, not of nature, as wonderful as the pouter pigeon or the saffron rose.
Human evolution is not so simple or so conspicuous a thing as the evolution of the pouter pigeon.
Those old fellows puffed up like pouter pigeons, and giggled and primped like a lot of school girls!
Then we go on to the absurd idea which came over womankind that it was most becoming to look like a pouter pigeon.
To give a simple illustration: the fantail and pouter pigeons are both descended from the rock pigeon.
They would fill their craws so full that they looked like pouter pigeons.
Sheriff Lawley had on his stiffest professional air and Si Hardscrabble's chest was puffed out like a pouter pidgeon.
