cockcrow

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Just after cockcrow on the Friday of the Crucifixion, the betrayer of Jesus Christ learned that the Sanhedrin had condemned the Messiah, that he had been taken before Pontius Pilate.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a million other South Africans, the Stoltz family was up at cockcrow one morning last week, all ready to cast its votes in the first general election since 1948.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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