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1
He looked like a
bantam
cock
whose feathers were much ruffled.
2
What a
bantam
cock
have ye brought me here, Mr.
3
The earl ruffled up like a feisty
bantam
cock
.
4
Pharaoh, the
bantam
cock
which Sinfi was carrying, began to crow, but silence again fell upon Sinfi.
5
In the old days, he strutted the stage like a portly
bantam
cock
,
taking on all comers.
6
He brayed for the
bantam
cock
,
and crowed for the pig; but we knew what he meant all right.
7
The turkey, of course, changed into a
bantam
cock
;
but the pestle and mortar had to remain the size it was.
8
Hanger strode like a
bantam
cock
towards a pair of great iron doors that let out from the Conservatory onto the Pavilion's grounds.
9
He manifested his delight by lifting the skirt of his dinner-jacket with his hands and rising on his spurs like a
bantam
cock
.
10
I was very much amused at his comparing me to a
bantam
cock
,
and felt almost inclined to clap my wings and crow.
11
I fear we are most of us like Mrs. Poyser's
bantam
cock
,
who fancied the sun got up every morning to hear him crow.
12
Hunkered down in the undergrowth with Livius, Mucius could see the little
bantam
cock
striding around his defences as though he were Caesar at Alesia.
13
"And who the deuce is this young
bantam
cock
?
"
said Santerre.
14
When I see people strut enough to be cut up into
bantam
cocks
,
I stand dormant with wonder, and says no more!
15
"You are a leopard, and a lamb, and a
bantam
cock
all in one," I jeered at him.
16
"Here comes our little
bantam
cock
!
"
he growled on one occasion when my uncle was coming into the lodge.
bantam
cock
bantam