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
Far across the fields, the note of the chanticleer rang out; the gulf closed, the porch of the house-boat stood empty, and the moon and the stars paled at what they had seen.
From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis
A double challenge is this gage, A gauntlet flung for love or war; As strutting barnyard chanticleer Defies his neighboring lord: So calls this crested pheasant-king For combat or for peace.
From Trail Tales by Gillilan, James David
He observed in the words of his favourite poet, that, my lungs did crow like chanticleer, and I did laugh sans intermission.
From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by Halidom, M. Y.
