"Gamecock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you are of the fighting variety . . . a regular gamecock! I like a person who treats with scant ceremony that ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont
... is, he was relatively great, and relatively little—or physically little, and metaphorically great— like Sir Sidney Smith and the late Mr. Buonaparte. To the frame of a dwarf, he united the soul of a giant, and the valor of a gamecock. Then, for so small a man, his strength was prodigious; his fist would fell an ox, and his kick!—oh! his kick was tremendous, and, when he had his boots on, would—to use an expression of his own, which ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various |
