Stormcock

Stormcock, who somehow or other was always down upon any chap for ever starting a yarn.

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Stormcock, as I pricked up my ears on hearing the name of Sir Charles

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Stormcock, ironically, before Tom could say anything.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

"Yes; no doubt you're right, Stormcock," said "Joe" in answer to this, squinting as he spoke over the side to the westward, where a heavy bank of cloud was rising up and nearly blotting out now the sun as it sank lower and lower towards the horizon.

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Stormcock and the assistant-paymaster, Mr Fortescue Jones, frequently wish they, or rather that we, had never been born to come to sea to torment them.

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Frontman Robin Pecknold previously described the album as "a little bit less upbeat" and "less poppy" than the first record, citing the influence of Roy Harper's Stormcock and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks.

The Guardian World News Sean Michaels 2011

Stormcock had tracks that were just too long for U.S. radio, too, but I wasn't bothered by that.

JamBase 2009

Stormcock was 4 long songs: Hors d'oeuvres; The Same Old Rock; One man rock 'n roll band and Me and My Woman.

Word Magazine - Comments illuminatus 2009

Stormcock as the direct influence on her "Best of List" topping Ys album, and even had Harper perform the entire Stormcock album as an opening set for her Ys show at Royal Albert Hall in London in 2007.

JamBase 2009

We've lost Bitpin and Stormcock and Morgan and that poor lad Jackson amongst the officers killed, besides those wounded, and I can't say yet how many men, but between thirty and forty, I fear! "

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene