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The engines are arranged in the ship with the starting platform between them; and the handles for working the throttle valves, starting valves, reversing gear (Brown's combined steam and hydraulic), and drain cocks are brought together at one end of the platform, so that the engineer in charge can readily control both engines.

The gas redescends through a tube to the bottom of the tank and rises laterally in a column by serving as a guide to the holder and as a support to the cocks designed to send the gas to the points of utilization.

Instrumentally and scientifically it is observed with a special type of vane, much more accurate in its indications than the weather vanes and weather cocks of ornamental and symbolical architecture.

Trumpets were sounding, muezzins were chanting in drawling tones from the tops of all the minarets, countless crows and ravens combined with cocks and hens to outvie in their performance, the braying of asses, and groaning of camels.

All the entrances were closed and soldiers with guns in their hands placed at the open windows, who shot down any men who ventured to approach as coolly as if they had been cocks and hens.

Well cocks and lions do the same and stags.

) STEPHEN: The fox crew, the cocks flew, The bells in heaven Were striking eleven.

One of the cocks of his hat having fallen down, he let it hang from that day forth, though it was a great annoyance when it blew.

They could get no fowls; old, purplish, stringy cocks were all they had for roasting and boiling.

But can the Weinsteins, who like being the only cocks of the walk, tolerate a partner as famous and visible as they are?

A cock and bull story, for example, derives from ancient fables and medieval bestiaries in which cocks moralized, bulls expostulated, and a menagerie of other animals discoursed in human language.

No anachronism here, of course, as cockpit refers, not to a part of an airplane, but to an enclosed place for fighting cocks and, in a transferred sense, to a circular theater.

Images unroll before the eye like a painted scroll as your boat continues downstream: Tunneled Hill, Pagoda Hill (also known as Battleship Hill), Washing Vase Hill, and Fighting Cocks Hills (facing each other from opposite banks of the river).

Taking the colonel's outburst as a challenge to his courage, the general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the bullets.


They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and they halted in silence.


There was nothing fresh to be seen from the line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, as well as that the French were outflanking our left.


The general and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs of cowardice in the other.


Both passed the examination successfully.


As there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, they would have remained there for a long time testing each other's courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood.


The French had attacked the men collecting wood in the copse.


It was no longer possible for the hussars to retreat with the infantry.


They were cut off from the line of retreat on the left by the French.


However inconvenient the position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through for themselves.


From the direction of Olmutz in front of them, a group was seen approaching.


And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs.


It looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its joy at the approach of the Emperors.


One voice was heard shouting: "Eyes front!" Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was repeated by others from various sides and all became silent.


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