Cock Robin

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Lyveden was about to commit his dispatch to the posting-box -- in fact, his hand was outstretched -- when, to the amazement of a cock-robin who frequented the pillar for company's sake, and had seen more letters posted than there were feathers upon his back, he hesitated, exclaimed, stared at the letter with knitted brow, and then thrust it back into his pocket. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)

When he posted his letter at a quarter to eight, the cock-robin, who had been brooding over his late transilience, was greatly relieved. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)

And as he stood looking up at his tall visitors, head on one side, he reminded them of nothing so much as a sleek cock-robin who had just dined to his taste. ❋ Henry Russell Miller (1917)

You have not seen the good folks who live here, only the old colored man who pretended that he was going to kill cock-robin, and didn't. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)

She is the Jenny Wren of this little cock-robin; she wears drab, too often mourning; but you find that she counts for very much with Tom. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

When the cock-robin makes love he is the same considerate, deferential, but insinuating gallant. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

The cock-robin does not go to his parents, and the hen robin to her parents, and say, 'Give us all the straw you can, and put it down at the foot of our tree; but don't dare to peep into the branches, or offer us any suggestions about the nest, or expect to have an opinion about our housekeeping.' ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)

She gives a long list of birds, who are to attend at his funeral, from which our nursery story of cock-robin may be taken. ❋ Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1873)

He in her shadow changes from a beaming cock-robin to an inquisitive sparrow. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

'Bearing himself like a sensible, pugnacious cock-robin? ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

Rosy was ready for her new horse, and not at all afraid after the whale and the lion; so when a great eagle swooped down and alighted near her, she just looked at his sharp claws, big eyes, and crooked beak as coolly as if he had been a cock-robin. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)

As when some guileless cock-robin is innocently regaling himself in the chase of a rainbow spangled butterfly, poising himself on wing, and in the very act of conveying the gay insect to his expectant spouse for domestic use, some ill-omened vulture, seated in solitary state on a tree hard by, unfurls his wing, and swoops in fell destruction upon the hapless warbler, leaving nothing of this scene of peace and ❋ Unknown (1853)

Most people are not aware, one sometimes fancies, how fine a singer is cock-robin now in the spring-time, when his song is drowned by, or at least confounded with, a dozen other songs. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Weirdly, if you type 'who killed cock' it is completed to 'who killed cock-robin' with a hyphen inserted, which implies someone has edited the auto-complete list manually. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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