"Cock up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that he was another kitten, though she could not quite make out how she had come to overlook him. He soon became her prime favourite. She liked his colour, and took a mother's pride in his tail. What troubled her was that it would cock up over his head. She would hold it down with one paw, and lick it by the half-hour together, trying to make it set properly. But the moment she let it go up it would cock again. I have heard her cry ...
— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome
... Dumbarton once again, I'll cock up my bonnet and march amain, With my claymore hanging down to my heel, To whang at ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott |
