cockcrow

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We would dance until cockcrow, then take off our sweaty shirts, enjoying the cool morning breeze as we walked back to our dorms.

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