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  • Pepper Whitcomb pretty mad to be called Cock Robin, I can tell you!

    The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

  • I think that your Cock Robin is a very pretty bird! "

    Aunt Kitty's Stories Various

  • He put it out that he killed Cock Robin and spit in his blood as it rushed down the gutter.

    Winter Hawk Jack 2010

  • Tortured into confessions of everything short of killing Cock Robin; Agents Robert Wallets who actually recruited him and Marjorie Morningstar who trained him enable Johnson to escape.

    Banquo’s Ghosts-Rich Lowry and Keith Korman « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • As Lord of the Hunt and a dying god he became the slain Cock Robin, whose executioner in the nursery rhyme did him in "with my wee bow and arrow" - a Saxon version of the Celtic Cu Chulainn who died at Mag Muirthemne bound to the sacred pillar and riddled with arrows.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008

  • As Lord of the Hunt and a dying god he became the slain Cock Robin, whose executioner in the nursery rhyme did him in "with my wee bow and arrow" - a Saxon version of the Celtic Cu Chulainn who died at Mag Muirthemne bound to the sacred pillar and riddled with arrows.

    Robin Hood Jan 2008

  • Heck, after several hours of police questioning I might confess to killing Cock Robin with a bow and arrow.

    A bomb-making factory is discovered in a Columbia professor's house — 3 blocks from where I live. Ann Althouse 2008

  • You've proved who killed Cock Robin and I don't expect a still-moist kaydet to know all the tricks.

    The Cadet Set Up Michael Turton 2007

  • Look, let's assume that somebody killed Cock Robin and no one tells anything about it until just before an election.

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2006 2006

  • Mr Venus dives, and produces another muffin, yet untoasted; taking the arrow out of the breast of Cock Robin, he proceeds to toast it on the end of that cruel instrument.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

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