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  • Hyde, and she said, 'she had seen the little cockrel strutting about

    The Maid of Maiden Lane Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • We have forms of diminutives in substantives, though not frequent; as a hill, a hillock; a cock, a cockrel; a pike, a pickrel; this is a French termination: a goose, a gosling; this is a German termination: a lamb, a lambkin; a chick, a chicken; a man, a manikin; a pipe, a pipkin; and thus

    A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746

  • We were awoken at 4: 00am by the cockrel and then later by the pigs roaming under the hut!

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • JB has also sugested; don’t copy & paste from any other text editor eg MS word, avoid links and lastly sacrifice a black cockrel at midnight.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Where’s my big fat tax cut? 2010

  • Stefan and I went to a local livestock market to buy a cockrel and 3 pigs - one of which has been named Migelito after me: -) Aside from being an interesting experice in its own right, it was another off-the-farm opportunity to get some more meat into the system. 3 roast pork breakfasts, from the man who was also selling smoked pigs heads (only $4 each) and live pigs.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • Stefan and I went to a local livestock market to buy a cockrel and 3 pigs - one of which has been named Migelito after me: -) Aside from being an interesting experice in its own right, it was another off-the-farm opportunity to get some more meat into the system. 3 roast pork breakfasts, from the man who was also selling smoked pigs heads (only $4 each) and live pigs.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • And for that I will slaughter a cockrel to celebrate with my family, "said Joseph Otieno, a jubilant Kogelo resident.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008

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