How To Use Pouter In A Sentence
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What comes next is the matador and he approaches with his tight-assed, pouter-pigeon walk, flaunting his coleto, the pigtail that is the professional mark of a torero who has taken his alternativa and is no longer a novillero.
There is no such thing as a bullfight
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Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its sophagus, a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed.
I. Variation under Domestication. Unconscious Selection
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She was a pouter, a thrower of chess pieces, a disengager.
Letters Home
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Some other sapotes belong to the related genus Pouteria.
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If you still prefer the soil-less method, I would encourage you to invest in a spouter that has multiple layers and trays with drainage holes.
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That same writer doesn't care how a spouter of pure hate chooses to represent himself.
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These now include banana, coconut (Cocos nucifera), sweet potatoes, mango (Mangifera indica), chico (Pouteria sapota), yams, taro, millet, watermelon, and citrus and pineapples on more fertile islands.
Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
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The valley is also known for the huge variety of native and introduced tropical fruits: Achras sapota, Manilkara achras, Chrysophyllum caimito, Pouteria cainito, Persea americana, Mammea americana, Anacardium occidentale, Carica papaya, Annona muricata, Manguifera indica and more.
Sinú Valley dry forests
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The processes at the summit of the _coracoid_, which receive the extremities of the furcula, form a more perfect cavity in some tumblers than in the rock-pigeon: in pouters these processes are larger and differently shaped, and the exterior angle of the extremity of the coracoid, which is articulated to the sternum, is squarer.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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But the fact of the rapidly increasing difficulty found in producing by ever such careful selection, any further extreme in some charge already carried very far (such as the tail of the "fan-tailed pigeon" or the crop of the "pouter"), is certainly, so far as it goes, on the side of the {117} existence of definite limits to variability.
On the Genesis of Species
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The "spouter" was a spray through which Sarah Ann blew coolness on my head, and Johnny had heard of it with interest.
The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906.
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Mean Mainstream Media - another pouter who won't take responsibility for their actions. rednekhank
Sanford lashes out at the media
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“Gam,” a thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it, and repeat gamesome stuff about “spouters” and “blubber-boilers,” and such like pretty exclamations.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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That’s goes double when the spouter is a minor, and the spoutee an adult — triple when there are small children in the room.
'Baby Borrowers' recap: This is where they run screaming for the condom aisle! | EW.com
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At the close of the services the good deacons would probably feel called upon to take the young man out behind the church and give him a little fatherly advice, the burthen of which would be to become an auctioneer or seek a situation as "spouter" for a snake side-show.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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Hey, there he is again, America's most popular pouter, brought to you by the media industrial complex that built him up, tore him down, and is rebuilding what they tore down.
Hey Tiger: Sell Me Shoes, Not Redemption
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The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.
Two Years Before the Mast
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Mostly gone is the over-peppy cheerleader and steady spouter of talking points running a campaign recently labeled flat and flailing.
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Ai m sneekin onda com pouter at werk, ai will emayo this ebening about yore trip to TTI.
“I understand now!” Kit cried joyfully - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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It's the sort of movie that treats his grandparents as senile comic targets one minute and spouters of sentimental wisdom the next.
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We were determined to show the "spouter" how things could be done in a smart ship, with a good crew, though not more than half their number.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
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A "spouter" we knew her to be as soon as we saw her, by her cranes and boats, and by her stump top-gallant masts, and a certain slovenly look to the sails, rigging, spars and hull; and when we got on board, we found everything to correspond, - spouter fashion.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
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But I should think that CNN, MSNBC and ... well, just CNN and MSNBC, really ... would actually like to have the comfort of knowing that their on-air spouters and sermonizers weren't total hypocrites, and would defenestrate hosts who violate basic standards.
Lou Dobbs, evil idiot
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Loren is a great figure of Italian cinema, but she's more of a pouter than an actress.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Who Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World?
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Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its oesophagus, — a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 01 (historical)
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The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent out his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
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Nor a whiner or pouter like so many who seem to post.
Kucinich Drops Out of White House Race
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All the farmyard life was wonderful there, -- bantams, speckled and topknotted; Friesland hens, with their feathers all turned the wrong way; Guinea fowls that flew and screamed and dropped their pretty spotted feathers; pouter pigeons and a tame magpie; nay, a goat, and a wonderful brindled dog, half mastiff, half bulldog, as large as a lion.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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A response one of my Zen teachers often used when confronted by an emptiness spouter was: ‘Does emptiness feel pain?’
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Many birds have the oesophagus or the skin of the neck more or less dilatable, but in no known bird is it so dilatable as in the pouter pigeon.
On the Genesis of Species
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Sure enough, about two miles to the leeward of us was a fine barque, at once pronounced a 'spouter' (whaler), and an American.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
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Then, came two or three Americans, who had been the common run of European and South American voyages, and one who had been in a "spouter," and, of course, had all the whaling stories to himself.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
