cockfight
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A 1770 cockfight between Revolutionary patriot Timothy Matlack of Philadelphia and a Loyalist New Yorker, James DeLancey, ended in a brawl that carried more political overtones than today’s Phillies-Mets melees.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2018
The site of the cockfight was a dirt path in the ravine aptly known as the Barranca del Muerto.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2015
Squaring up for a light-hearted cockfight with the admiral on his column, Fritsch's sculpture is a strutting Napoleon giving Nelson the bird.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013
And his camera tends to linger: on a cockfight, a pair of lonely women in pageant costumes dancing, on a 10-year-old boy blowing fire at stoplights for small change.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2011
Heralds cried his name and deeds for all to hear, and the noble knights and highborn ladies cheered as lustily as cutthroats at a cockfight.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Authorities are still searching for Cirilo Esquivel Alcantar, 56, of San Bernardino, who also is charged with involvement in the cockfights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2024
Santamaria is a fourth generation breeder and director of the Cultural Freedom Foundation, a group that supports bullfights, cockfights, rodeos and other traditional events that involve animals.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
There were horse races and cockfights and parades of the militia and other military companies.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
Reduce the whole concept to something like cockfights in dark, remote barns for depraved afficionados?
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
He gave a scrupulous accounting to his brother and very soon plunged back into the routine of cockfights.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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