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cockcrow

[kok-kroh] / ˈkɒkˌkroʊ /


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Since Gabriel's first cockcrow, seven Messiahs have done their miraculous best to redeem mankind.

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At cockcrow one day last week, loudspeaker trucks began to cruise slowly through Saigon's streets.

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But once they hatched between hard covers, he knew how to sound the cockcrow of publicity.

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Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun.

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A few hours later we heard a cockcrow in the distance.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah




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