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cockcrow

[kok-kroh] / ˈkɒkˌkroʊ /


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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.

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

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

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

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A few hours later we heard a cockcrow in the distance.

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


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