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
Still that’s beside our purpose, which is this— To scan the statute, microscope in hand, And note if in its sweep humane, we see A roosting place for fighting chanticleer.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
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 Creswicke, Louis
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 Parrish, Randall
