turkey-gobbler

Meg was full of glee, and would gladly have chased the chickens, handled the young ducks, and teazed the turkey-gobbler till he was quite in a passion.

Hatty and Marcus or, First Steps in the Better Path Aunt Friendly

His eyes were dancing, and there was a flush in his cheeks that did not even confine itself to that portion of his round face, for Big Bob was as red as a turkey-gobbler strutting up and down the barnyard to the admiration of his many wives.

Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums Mark Overton

A Navajo blanket had nothing on that suit for a mixture of colors, and Koku strutted like a turkey-gobbler.

Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Victor [pseud.] Appleton

He had contemptuously referred to Conkling's "haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut."

The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

When Blaine likened Conkling to a strutting turkey-gobbler, the House slightly hissed.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Her eyes were fixed upon a turkey-gobbler ruffling and bobbing around the back door of the Adams house.

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

Across the dooryard came the old turkey-gobbler with fan tail and a rasping scrape of wing, evincing his delight in spring and mating time by a series of explosive snorts.

The Song of the Cardinal 1915

Page 36 unlike the movements of a turkey-gobbler in the early spring chanted:

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

That message was followed almost instantly by the high priest of Siva in person, angry as a turkey-gobbler and blasphemously vindictive.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

In the farmyard a gigantic turkey-gobbler marched majestically with arched neck and spreading wings, feeling himself very much the king of the castle; good-natured ducks puddled contentedly in a trough of dirty water; pigeons, white winged and graceful, circled and wheeled in the sunshine; querulous-voiced hens strutted and scratched, and gossiped openly of mysterious nests hidden away.

Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912