chanticleer
Example Sentences
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The chanticleer in question, it turned out last week, is hip-high Billy Rose, Broadway's No. 1 spectaclemaker.
From Time Magazine Archive
For in 1933 the automobile industry stalked out of Depression wearing all the airs of chanticleer.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this melancholy situation he was found by the farmer, who instantly killed the snake, and set chanticleer at liberty.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
Here and there a goat gravely stalking along, happily unconscious of its impending doom; and chanticleer surrounded by a small harem trying to make the best of things.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
When Mr. Lincoln saw me coming up the garden path, his lungs began to crow like a chanticleer, and I thought he would laugh, sans intermission, an hour by his dial.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon
