Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockfightings
Literary usage of Cockfightings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Georgical Essays by Alexander Hunter (1803)
"There is no public-house at Humberston; nor do the parishioners desire one: and
on this account there are no cockfightings or gaming, within the parish; ..."
2. Bibliomania: Or Book-madness; a Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall ( Dibdin (1876)
"I will they use no cockfightings, nor riding about of victory, nor disputing at
Saint Bartholomew, which is but foolish babbling and loss of time. ..."
3. Bibliomania: Or Book-madness; a Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1876)
"I will they use no cockfightings, nor riding about of victory, nor disputing at
Saint Bartholomew, which is but foolish babbling and loss of time. ..."
4. Collected Papers of Henry Bradshaw by Henry Bradshaw, Francis Jenkinson (1889)
"... up and down the Country, is at all hors-matches and cockfightings, appears in
Grey clothes and a ..."
5. Games, Gaming, and Gamesters' Law by Francis Frederick Brandt (1871)
"... others have won money fairly and on the " square by downright gaming and betting."
The same author adds, " It's true cards, dice, cockfightings, races, ..."
6. An Account of the Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of a Faithful by John Churchman (1780)
"... fuch as drinkers of healths, fome that had been at cockfightings and races,
and one or more marriages out of the order of truth: which gave me an ..."
7. Report of the commissioners by Great Britain Schools Inquiry Commission, Schools inquiry commission (1869)
"The schoolmaster and usher not to make or use any potations, cockfightings, or
drinkings, but only twice in the year; nor take any other gifts whereby the ..."
8. John Bunyan, His Life, Times and Work by John Brown (1886)
"... permitted and were present at cockfightings in the chancell of the said church
in or about the sacred place where the communion table stands, ..."
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