| 单词 | turncock |
| 例句 | He wants to have it turned off, because its roaring kept him awake, and he was going first thing after breakfast to see the turncock about it; but, of course, it is hopeless. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z The cylinders were unloaded, set in place at equal intervals along one side of the square, turncocks and nozzles with elongated sprayjets attached, and the valves opened. Greener Than You Think Some old-stagers stuck to the ancient companies, and to the faces of familiar turncocks. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 In town or country to know where are the police stations, hospitals, doctors, telegraph, telephone offices, fire engines, turncocks, blacksmiths and job-masters or factories, where over a dozen horses are kept. Outdoor Sports and Games Clerk of Works reports that the Council's scavengers, plumbers, carters, lamp-lighters, and turncocks, are all threatening to strike, in sympathy with bricklayers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 It usually runs into a cistern, until the water-rates get into arrear, when the supply ceases through the intervention of a turncock. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Let me ask, What are the real feelings of a householder who is requested to hand out a present to a turncock or dustman whom he has never seen? The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour You will pardon the momentary laceration of a wounded spirit, made sensitive by a recent collision with a minion of the law,—in short, with a ribald turncock attached to the waterworks. Practice Book They watched him oil a turncock sunk in the ground between two furze-bushes. Stalky & Co. The little man was left in the centre of the room, his deep eyes smouldering upon the backs of the retreating members, his thumb and finger raised to the turncock of the metre. The Island Pharisees |
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