chanticleer
Example Sentences
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For in 1933 the automobile industry stalked out of Depression wearing all the airs of chanticleer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chanticleer in question, it turned out last week, is hip-high Billy Rose, Broadway's No. 1 spectaclemaker.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, sacre! my young chanticleer, surely you are not here to bring me this bit of news.
From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish
The great cart-horse, the old barn up the road, the hollow tree, the dry reeds, the birds, and chanticleer himself— High was his comb, and coral red withal, In dents embattled like a castle wall.
From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies
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
