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  • "You son of a gun," Daughtry repeated, cuddling his cheek and ear against the cockatoo's feathered and crested head.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • His blue eyes and blond cockatoo's crest were startling against the dark of his Belter tan, the tan that ended so abruptly where his neck ring cut off the space-intense sunlight his helmet let through.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • Then again, the lorakeet's always make so much noise you'd assume that no one but the cockatoo's could stand their presence.

    Tacky pick-up line of the week StyleyGeek 2006

  • On top of that astonishing head the down rose to a peak not unlike a cockatoo's crest.

    The Time Traders Andre Norton 1958

  • In his excitement his gray hair was ruffled up more like a cockatoo's topknot than usual, and his eyes seemed fairly to spark.

    How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

  • Jocko, who, as may be supposed, was the originator of all the row, had got up into the mulberry-tree, the cockatoo's own especial domain, and, chattering and making faces at the bird, had clutched hold of one of his legs in his hand-like paw, trying to pull him from his perch.

    Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • There was a neat little ring on the perch, and the cockatoo's chain was quite complete, and he evidently wanted to get out, for he shook the walls of his cage in his gambols.

    Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

  • He had had a ring put round one of the cockatoo's ankles, with a bright steel chain attached and a fastener to secure it to the perch.

    Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

  • "Dear me!" ejaculated the vicar, shoving up his spectacles over his forehead and poking his hair into an erect position like a cockatoo's crest, as he always did when fidgety.

    Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle

  • "You son of a gun," Daughtry repeated, cuddling his cheek and ear against the cockatoo's feathered and crested head.

    Chapter 15 1917

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