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
When at midnight the chanticleer crowed, The black colt of Alain awaited his master Just outside the door.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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
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 Eug?ne Sue
