chanticleer
Example Sentences
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The chanticleer in question, it turned out last week, is hip-high Billy Rose, Broadway's No. 1 spectaclemaker.
From Time Magazine Archive
For in 1933 the automobile industry stalked out of Depression wearing all the airs of chanticleer.
From Time Magazine Archive
We could see dear old Mary Flannagan's red head as we put foot on the pier and as soon as she saw us she began to crow like chanticleer.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell
As they listened the challenge of the chanticleer came once more.
From Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
There are sounds of chanticleer, blasts of trumpets, changing of the guards and sentinels of old customs and ways, and echoes in the events now unrolling that prelude the great morning and the great day.
From Why I Preach the Second Coming by Haldeman, Isaac Massey
