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Usage examples of cocks.

Most cockers who fight a lot of cocks don't get around to naming them in the first place.

This would be more than enough money to see me through the Southern Conference season, and enough to purchase six badly needed fighting cocks besides.

These cocks had never seen each other before, but they were mortal enemies.

The signal to release the cocks is when the referee shouts “Pit” or “Pit your cocks!

The cocks met in midair, both of them shuffling with blurred yellow feet, and then they dropped to the ground.

Both cocks struggled to break away from each other, but the right spur was still stuck, and all Sandspur could do was hop up and down in place on his free leg.

Sandspur turned to fight, and the cocks met head on, but my injured bird was forced back by the fierceness of Little David's rush.

The truck bed had steel-mesh coops welded to the floor on both sides, with solid walls separating each coop so that none of the cocks could see each other.

When it comes to cocks of the same blood, those bred from mother and son have the biggest heart for fighting to the death.

I've seen Ace cocks sell for a hundred, and sometimes for one hundred and fifty—but never for five hundred.

The hardest rule of the tourney was that all the cocks entered in the final round at Milledgeville had to be four-time winners.

I was at rock bottom and it was ironical to even think about fighting any cocks that season.

Two cocks meeting anywhere in their natural state will fight to the death or until one of them runs away.

I could win with any hardy, farm-walked game strain that could stand up under my conditioning methods—Claret, Madigan, Whitehackle, Doms—but the excellent cocks I would need would cost too much, especially after putting out five hundred dollars for Icky.

I just brought in twenty-two cocks, but if you only want a dozen country-walked roosters, you can have the best of the lot, which is plenty damned good!