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
The subway was to him "the great nickel adventure"; a ride on the elevated railroad, "a�rial journeying"; his alarm clock, "the urban chanticleer."
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
He observed in the words of his favourite poet, that, my lungs did crow like chanticleer, and I did laugh sans intermission.
From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by Halidom, M. Y.
When I looked forth upon this moving scene my lungs began to "crow like chanticleer."
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
