Blackcocks

October 23, 2006, 10: 22 am huge gay black cocks says: huge gay blackcocks n00stalgie ❋ Unknown (2004)

He was not at all certain that there were no more blackcocks in the county. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

In the bar of the little inn that stands on the edge of Frensham Pond there is an interesting case holding two blackcocks and a grey-hen, whose unhappy lot it was to be shot -- perhaps the last of their race seen in this part of Surrey. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

Out in the clearing the blackcocks with their wide-spread spotted tails were fighting, while the hens strutting near, craning and chattering, probably some gossip about their fighting swains, watched and were delighted with them. ❋ Ferdinand Ossendowski (1910)

The General entered the forest, and there hazel-hens were whistling, blackcocks were holding their bragging matches, and hares were running. ❋ Isabel Florence Hapgood (1889)

"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." ❋ Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1867)

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. ❋ Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1867)

The blackcocks are getting very plenty on our moor-ground at ❋ Unknown (1824)

The provisions are all excellent, the fish of the lake being as large and well tasted as that of Geneva, and the mountains abounding in game, particularly blackcocks, which I never saw in any other part of Italy.” ❋ Melville, Lewis (1925)

In the woody cleughs yonder they are thick as blackcocks in August, "cried the Major impatiently. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)