cockerel
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The video shows Fito caressing a fighting cockerel and freely chatting to fellow inmates.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024
In Cambridge itself, a bronze cockerel looted in a British raid was removed from display at Jesus College, in 2016, and returned to Nigeria last month.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2021
After being looted, the cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
The sculpture of a cockerel was one of hundreds of Benin Bronzes that were pillaged from the once mighty Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now Nigeria.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021
He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
"We recently accepted a group of dumped cockerels, for which we had no history on these abandoned animals," a spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2022
In the late 1960s, the International Dairy Federation paid Yudkin to conduct sugar studies in pigs, rats, cockerels, and humans.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018
There was also a thing about people bringing cockerels to the matches – in the 1960s, I think – because the cockerel was on the club’s badge.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017
People carrying cockerels in slings or under their arms travel to these venues by horse-drawn carriage, bicycle or in candy-colored vintage American cars.
From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2017
But the lads paid no heed to her sobs and prayers, for their blood was up, and they were as hard set to their work as game cockerels in the pit.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Mabel Winifred Knowles
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