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
Far across the fields, the note of the chanticleer rang out; the gulf closed, the porch of the house-boat stood empty, and the moon and the stars paled at what they had seen.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
As they listened the challenge of the chanticleer came once more.
From Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
An assertive chanticleer was proclaiming the dawn within the hen-house, whence came too an impatient clamor, for the door, which served to exclude any marauding fox, was still closed upon the imprisoned poultry.
From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
