10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKLIKE»
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During the breeding season, the female's plumage is unchanged but the male
develops a brilliant, showy (cocklike) plumage, even if castrated. If the proper
pituitary hormone (LH) is injected into both sexes, normal and castrate,
regenerating ...
Paul R. Ehrlich, Richard W. Holm, Michael E. Soulé, 1973
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The pictorial tile cycle of Hašt Behešt in Iṣfahān and its ...
The Safavid gilded embossed borders not only present the animal and K'i-lin
fights, but the peaceful animal world as well, in a landscape bound by trees and
flower branches <2>; elephants, cranes, multicoloured birds and the cocklike wild
...
Ingeborg Luschey-Schmeisser, 1978
The Chicken Belongs to the Pheasant Family. — The suborder Galli includes
birds that are cocklike, and included in this suborder is the family Phasianidae,
the pheasants, which have tarsi with spurs. The pheasants all belong to one
family ...
Then, with his cocklike crest bent low, he slipped on, leaving the infrequent sun-
splashes and reaching for the forest's almost twilighted heart. He understood
perfectly the common elements of danger in this venture. He recognized the
perils of ...
Its shuttle-cocklike habit, numerous pinnae and pinnulae, their uniform width from
the base outwards, the freely paleaceous channel of the petiole and rachis — the
scales varying from a pale chaff colour to castaneous — are its principal ...
Trinidad. Dept. of Agriculture, 1896
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The Fraserian Papers of the Late William Maginn, LL. D.: ...
... or a kicking to be anticipated — swelling and turkey-cocklike as Pistol himself
to inferiors — cool and impertinent to all who do not belong to their own coterie —
and servile and booing to those from whom they may expect a place or a dinner ...
William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 1857
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The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses
('Clock clacked' Cocklike it heralds a betrayal—and a false sunrise. 'Look to the
west') Bloom, following Goulding to a table near the door, wonders whether
Boylan has forgotten his date or whether his delay is a device to whet the
appetite—a ...
8
Bulletin of the Botanical Department, Jamaica
The habit is that of Filizv-mas, and is stiff, shuttle-cocklike. The flat and broader
segments distinguish it from any of the following.—Endemic. 15. N. nimbatum, J
enm., Rootstock stoutish, erect or sub-erect, the scales brown and rather small; ...
sciousness of designing and mean intentions; on which, since he had become so
important a personage at Lyme Cottage, he had attempted to graft a sort of
bantam cocklike strut, which certainly did render him a strange combination of the
...
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Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn
... or a kicking to be anticipated — swelling and turkey-cocklike as Pistol himself
to inferiors — cool and impertinent to all who do not belong to their own coterie —
and servile and booing to those from whom they may expect a place or a dinner ...
William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 1857
