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When that airplane dipped it's nose to go low, I thought I heard a warning sound from the cock-pit come on at .48 seconds ... interesting aerial stocking!
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Be it in the sporting arena or in the cock-pit of the House, if the referee is not perceived to be impartial the referee can not function.
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When that airplane dipped it's nose to go low, I thought I heard a warning sound from the cock-pit come on at .48 seconds ... interesting aerial stocking!
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So, Congress is going to rush the “cock-pit” and beat the hell out of the “pilot” that is driving this nation into disaster?
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David Patton The front seats have a cock-pit like feel and the dashboard layout is typical.
Mazda CX-9 2008
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Always take a bite of onion before speeding forth to battle, just as your patrons of the cock-pit give their birds a feed of garlic132 before they put them for the fight.
Symposium 2007
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Upon this information I crawled down to the cock-pit, and acquainted Thompson with the affair, who, providing himself with bandages, etc, necessary for the occasion, went up to assist Mr. Morgan in the reduction of the dislocation.
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Here we beheld a kind of cock-pit, around which a great many people, seeming of all ranks, but chiefly of the lower, were gathered, and in it we saw a dog destroy a great many rats in a very small period; and when the dog had destroyed the rats, we saw a fight between a dog and a bear, then a fight between two dogs, then ....
Lavengro 2004
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He says that a hundred pounds would be no bad thing to be disbanded upon; for he wishes to take an inn at Swanton Morley, keep a cock-pit, and live respectably.
Lavengro 2004
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My fellow-mates bad no sooner despatched their business in the cock-pit, than, full of friendly concern, they came to visit me.
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