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
In the deep and dismal solitude of these woodlands the lone wanderer would have been startled by the barking of the watch-dog, or the shrill clarion of a chanticleer.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
The robins in Mr. Bird’s apple orchard were awake, too, and chanticleer down the road 141 had proclaimed the opening of another new day with all his lusty might.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.
The chanticleer had not yet done with his chant When the black colt was galloping swiftly over the road.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
