blackcocks
- plural of blackcock.
Example Sentences
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"It is, indeed," she said, "a good morning's hunting to have got five blackcocks, but it was still better when in one morning a king of Norway took five kings and subdued all their kingdoms."
From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
The General entered the forest, and there hazel-hens were whistling, blackcocks were holding their bragging matches, and hares were running.
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
In the woody cleughs yonder they are thick as blackcocks in August,” cried the Major impatiently.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
Sweet lass, will ye gang wi' me, Where blackcocks crow, and plovers cry?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
One day they had been hawking, and when they let slip the falcons, Harald's falcon killed two blackcocks in one flight and three in another.
From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
