"Cock-a-hoop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enough, what with Mr. Killpatrick's men dying off every day—he has only thirty left—and my own Sepoys mostly skeletons. And we haven't proved ourselves against the Nawab's troops; I suppose they outnumber us thirty to one, and after their success at Calcutta they'll be very cock-a-hoop. Yet 'tis so easy to sink a few ships, especially if preparations have been made long in advance, as ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang |
