Sentence examples for coxcomb from inspiring English sources

7. Sir Toby calls Sir Andrew "an ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!" - a simpleton in Twelfth Night.

Nightingale's famous "coxcomb" chart from 1858 demonstrated that improving hygiene in British military hospitals slashed mortality rates.

At that time, the idea of presenting data in a static format will seem as quaint as Florence Nightingale's coxcomb pie charts in the 1850s (here).The VisualizediO conference was only one venue where the divergence between living and dead data was apparent.

He wore a three-piece and a coxcomb hairdo and he looked very cool.

She then went on: "In 'The Good Life' idyll one imagines several hens and a single proud cockerel, but one strutting coxcomb will lead to many chicks and what is to become of the male contingent with not a layer among them?

But his famous, disastrous lawsuit, in 1877, against John Ruskin for a grotesque review — the great critic had written, "I never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" — addressed a real injustice.

The monster called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, 'the metropolis of the empire'?" asked William Cobbett in his "Rural Rides" of 1830.The belief that London is a source of corruption is one reason for wanting to constrain its growth.

The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, the metropolis of the empire?" So asked William Cobbett, a radical journalist in the 1820s.

Another clerk describes a colleague as "one of the most pert, assuming, and forward coxcombs I ever saw".

Some of the dishes may have you looking around for the hidden cameras: the pici, for example, a hollow pasta served here with black truffles, coxcombs, and duck testicles, which are bigger than you might imagine and do not taste like chicken, or duck.

I got my husband to eat coxcombs and chicken kidneys at a lovely Relais & Châteaux in Burgundy by telling him it was all just mushrooms.