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  • noun Plural form of cockatrice.

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Examples

  • (Another such rumor was that he intended to marry the orphaned teenage daughter of Louis XVI, then imprisoned in the Temple; see Andress 345-6). cockatrices

    Annotations 2007

  • For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • This will so fright them both that they will kill one another by the look, like cockatrices.

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • Nevertheless, I went warily, being now almost among this nest of cockatrices.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

    Jeremiah 8. 1999

  • Thrift shall be the new order of the day, I tell you, and there shall be no more cockatrices nor sea dragons bought from peddlers.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • Actually, Cheiron had probably anticipated that ploy also, and would send the cockatrices first to the lower chambers to prevent the goblins from moving anyone out.

    Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990

  • "Cheiron will send in the cockatrices," Chex said.

    Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990

  • I am grateful, for if I had killed that long-legged pest it would have been in contempt of the court, and they would have set me to hatching red cockatrices.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

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