Sentence examples for weathercock from inspiring English sources

In the 14th century Valdemar IV built the curious "Goose Tower," crowned with a golden (now copper) goose weathercock, on the grounds of his castle, which are now a botanic garden.

Tiptoe, the weathercock.

"When I was young and proud," the first stanza's last line, connects us to the next episode, and a remembered experience of watching the sun go down, sketched in wonderfully compressed images of the weathercock losing "the slanted ray", and the young speaker climbing the hill for a larger view.

Such charm can be followed by a brutal shock, as in "Penny Dreadful", in which a demonic murderer reflects on his night's work, looking down on the sleeping town as he "hug[s] the weathercock".

Last sun gilds the weathercock and, within the darkening interior, the slate floor gleams with dampness.

The weathercock at sunset   Would lose the slanted ray, And I would climb the beacon   That looked to Wales away   And saw the last of day.

This is Michael Meyer's version (1921-2000), translatorator who did more than anyone – except Ibsen's first Anglophone champion, William Archer – to place Norwegian in the theatrical canon: And, as I stood high up there, right at the top, and placed the wreath over the weathercock, I said to Him: 'Listen to me, mighty one!

He would never do so; because though most leaders were unprincipled weathercocks, he was one of the few unbending signposts, pointing (as Margaret Thatcher had also, but wrongly, pointed) to the promised land.The route he preached was "pure" socialism.

Weathercocks will spin in whatever direction the wind of public opinion may blow them, no matter what principal they may have to compromise.

Weathercocks will spin in whatever direction the wind of public opinion may blow them, no matter what principle they have to compromise.

He continued to make iron railings, balconies, and small objects for architectural application, such as hinges, latches, locks, and weathercocks.