capon

• “The precipitous banks of red sandstone are richly clothed with vegetation, some of the trees ancient and very fine, especially the magnificent one called the capon tree, and the lofty king of the wood, remnants of the fine forests which at one time had covered the country.”

  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville

• “The neutered rooster, called a capon, was also prized for its fat.”

  The Digital Awakening

• “_ “Gallinacius/the capon is a gelded cocke/& because”

  Early English Meals and Manners

• “They also house their extra females at these capon ranches.”

  Fictionaut: Messages to Mars

• “I rose to follow him, quickly running my tongue over my teeth to check for any bits of food—I was regretting the peppered capon from this morning.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “But the four paragraphs after that, where I went off like a capon, were taken word-for-word from Glenn Beck.”

  Chris Kelly: Tea Party Leader: We Plan to Kill Millions Like Mao

• “The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say.”

  Fictionaut: Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)

• “I go to Tuscany, and cappelletti – pasta knots stuffed with cheese, capon and pork, served in a clear capon broth – come from Emilia-Romagna, where they're a Christmas treat.”

  The Guardian: Spaghetti malfunction

• “May 13th, 2008 10: 09 am ET don't count her out just yet it is still time for this country to wake up and see what is good for them, Janet, capon bridge, WV gastoys”

  Carville: Obama likely to win nomination

• “I took a bite of capon, but the savory sauce it had been doused in seemed to have lost its flavor.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secrets of the Tudor Court

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