I was very much amused at his comparing me to a bantam cock, and felt almost inclined to clap my wings and crow.
A bantam roaster allers crows as loud as an game crower, to make folks believe that the dung-hill is his'n.
The Sebright Bantam is much less prolific than any other breed of fowls, and is descended from a cross between two very distinct breeds, recrossed by a third sub-variety.
Bantam keepers who have a surplus of such products can usually find customers in their own neighborhood.
The common pigeon is about the size of the smallestbantam fowls.
The Common Game Bantam is a dwarf Pit Game fowl; the Exhibition Game Bantam is a dwarf type resembling the Exhibition Game, developed from the Common Game Bantam.
Red Pile Game Bantam hen] =How fowls were kept in old times.
White Polish Bantam cock] No evidence of the existence of a dwarf race of fowls in Java has ever been produced.
The bantamwould crow if my hens were not identified; but oh the inestimable virtue of perseverance!
The bantam must have been roused by some cock that has seen the morning's light sooner than it reaches the deep recesses of that wynd.
Voyage of Captain David Middleton, in 1607, to Bantam and the Moluccas.
Oh, she was a little tripping Tartar of a bantam hen then.
The little pheasants ran through the orchard and the little bantam hen followed them.
He came and lifted up the little bantam hen, although she scolded and pecked at him; and in the nest Bobby and Betty saw six little pheasant chicks and one egg that did not hatch.
At last, one day, Joe decided to let the little bantam run with her brood, and show them how to scratch and find worms.
Then he put the seven eggs in the nest carefully, and got the little bantam hen and put her in, too.
So he took away the slats from the foot of the coop, and Mrs. Bantamstepped out.
Mother Bantam would cluck and run back and forth in the coop and call to them, she was so afraid something would happen.
And, Comfort, I am going to ask mother to let me set all the eggs of my white bantam hen, early in the spring; and I'll sell the chickens and give you the money to help buy your neffy.
So she filled the same nest in which the eggs had been laid, with clean, fresh straw, and placed them in it, ready for the bantam when Martin could catch her to put her on.
The laced plumage of the Sebright bantam is the same in both sexes, and in the chickens the feathers are tipped with black, which makes a near approach to lacing.
Grimly the Senior Surgeon longed to tell the White Linen Nurse about the pet bantam of his own boyhood days--that he bet a dollar could lick any bantam her father ever dreamed of owning!
Bantam was near by, but according to the stories of Houtman and his expedition, the people in Bantam were very unfriendly.
That sum, therefore, was just ninety-seven reals more than the people in Bantam received for their own raw product.
But the others must await the arrival of a new supply of pepper, which was being brought to Bantam from the Moluccas by some enterprising Chinamen.
At that time Bantam was an important city, the most important trading center of the western part of the Indian islands.
In a final audience with the governor of the city of Bantam he had promised this dignitary that the Hollanders would return the next year, "because that was the will of their mighty ruler.
The Bantam people had been familiar with the ways of white men for almost a hundred years.
Finally after a rooster and seven chickens had been given the freedom of this domain, to assure future travelers of fresh eggs, the four ships had hoisted their sails and had come to Bantam to join their admiral.
He might have guessed that there were Hollanders in Bantam when he found that there were no spices to be had in any of the other Javanese ports.
Several of the officers who had been to Bantam with Houtman were engaged for this second voyage.
After Houtman and his ships left in the summer of 1596 the Portuguese Government had sent a strong fleet to punish the Sultan of Bantam for having been too friendly to the Hollanders.
They had sold it to the Sultan of Ternate for some bags of nutmeg, and with a small sloop of their own construction they had reached Bantam in April of the year 1602.
This fleet had suffered a defeat, but since that time the people in Bantam had feared the arrival of another punitive expedition.
It was as though the Cock of Beaugard had really summoned him to action, and the crowing had not been that of a barnyardbantam not a hundred feet away from him.
A spaniel and bantamare not often seen together, yet we have them here in thorough good-fellowship.
The dog is a lovable creature, and the bantam knows it.
There was a noble little bantam in an inclosed yard challenging a great Dorking, and they both seemed so very anxious for sport that I thought it would be a pity to baulk them; so I just let the bantam out.
I give you my word, it is my belief that the bantam would have been the best man, but that he was too old.
In a fury, his fists clenched, the bantamstarted toward her.
As the bantam spoke, Zen noticed that the temperature in the big room seemed to have dropped far more than seemed reasonable.
The little bantam was following every move she made and was keeping as close to her as possible.
The King of Jackatra and the Admiral of Bantam sent for us on the 26th October, to know if there were any means to fire their fortifications from a reasonable distance, beyond reach of their bases, of which they had a great number.
We took leave of our countrymen, and departed from Bantam on the 2d of November, shaping our course for Patane.
Voyage of Captain David Middleton, in 1607, to Bantam and the Moluccas.
Very early in the morning of the 13th, the governor of Bantam and his Jerotoolies were put to death by the Pangavas; the sabander, the admiral, Key Depatty Utennagarra, and others.
Making all haste to wood and water, we again sailed the 18th August, and arrived at Bantam on the 7th December, missing Captain Keeling very narrowly, who must have passed us in the night, or we must surely have seen him.
The same day the admiral of Bantam sent his son to the regent to enquire why he used threats against us, which he denied; and, sending for me next morning, he asked me who had said he meant to harm us.
The King of Bantam is an absolute sovereign, and since the deposition and death of the late Emperor of Damacke he is considered as the principal king of the whole island.
Saris was factor at Bantam in 1608, at the time of the third voyage of the East India Company, and has given an account of occurrences there from the time Scott left off, as contained in Section II.
The leaks being somewhat stopped, and our goods reloaded, we departed again the 8th December, and arrived at Bantam the 21st of that month.
The 14th we came back to Bantam roads, forced either to lengthen our voyage, or to go home with lost reputation.
This corn was something Hiram had long coveted, as Mr. Noland's Golden Bantam corn is the envy of all the farmers as it is extra fine for table use.
If you will help me, I'll give you a peck of that Golden Bantam seed corn you like so much the next time you are in town.
Frezeland Bantam is the vainest bird that attempts to crow; and by and by our feverish friend comes out into the light, and begins to trim his plumage!
When Elliston, ignorant of what one gentleman owes to another, or driven by stupidity to forget it, brought the Doge on the stage, how crowed the Bantam Cocks of Cockaigne to see it damned!
Maru's favorite bantam cock, followed at a respectful distance by two wives and an unidentified black chick, sauntered along the kitchen drain, his yellow eye slanted for a swimming flake of white.
The soapy water, with drifting islands of blue cloth, flowed out swiftly, carrying the pompous bantamand his family on the unexpected tide.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bantam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
