cockfight
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cockfights
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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
When Úrsula realized that José Arcadio Segundo was a cockfight man and that Aureliano Segundo played the accordion at his concubine’s noisy parties, she thought she would go mad with the combination.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He gained a reputation for his love of cockfights, also calling himself “El Señor de Los Gallos” — the lord of the roosters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
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
Santos Martínez, a graphic designer who like many others has used social media to support the ban, said most Puerto Ricans would be thrilled to see cockfights end.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
Intelligent, pleasant, ruddy-faced, a man who liked to eat and watch cockfights, he had been at one time the most feared adversary of Colonel Aureliano Buendía.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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