weathercocks

“Well, Smith, I judge by your brief answer that you are discomposed with this matter; but, after all, women are weathercocks, that is the truth on’t.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

The pigeons, he allowed, were big and shining, and gleamed like mother-o'-pearl, and looked like a kind of weathercocks; but then they were fat and stupid, and their whole endeavour was to fill themselves with food.

What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840

"Well, Smith, I judge by your brief answer that you are discomposed with this matter; but, after all, women are weathercocks, that is the truth on't.

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

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Wales' weathercocks 2009

“And from that day on, weathercocks have stood on their only leg, seeing everything that happens below, and pointing whichever way their friend the wind blows.”

Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock 2009

Like just now I was reading this story about weathercocks:

Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock 2009

He said that some were signposts and some were weathercocks.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

The people of Pakistan are fed up with the same weathercocks and faces that always appear in the parliament after the elections.

We Need a Third Political Power in Pakistan: Sheikh Rashid 2008

Will it be believed that the governor of such a house as this, is appointed, and deposed, and changed perpetually, as Parties fluctuate and vary, and as their despicable weathercocks are blown this way or that?

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

Dombey and Son 2007