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

An assertive chanticleer was proclaiming the dawn within the hen-house, whence came too an impatient clamor, for the door, which served to exclude any marauding fox, was still closed upon the imprisoned poultry.

From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

But she, "good, easy soul," was quite accustomed to that sort of thing, and stood gazing upon him as serenely as a well-fed Biddy might on an enraged barn-yard chanticleer.

From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes

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