Why, even a tall chanticleer makes a home look homely. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
By Anonymous, at Mon Jan 15, 02:36:00 PM where was that statement, chanticleer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Voters Deserve a Choice] Reference
Wordsworth's sublime contemplations, he would have been very likely to flap his arms and crow like chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
Looking up past creeper-grown lattice windows, Wexford noticed its fellow, a crowing chanticleer on the weather vane. From Wordnik.com. [A Guilty Thing Surprised]
If he admitted his guilt, he would be unfrocked; he would show like a chanticleer stripped of his hackles before his hens. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Margaret would be thrang with her white hands in a measure of grain, and I would be hearing her speaking to the chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
The cows, grazing below in the valleys, were whisking their tails, and from the farm-yards came the crow of the chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
If abroad for purely constitutional purposes, the crowing chanticleer must be forced to pass the same objects many times in review. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Wise, are now found to be wholly at fault, and the chanticleer rhetoric of Messrs. Glascock and Garland stalks featherless and crest-fallen. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
"Is it not strange," says the good woman, "that he never makes a mistake," and then follows a word of praise for chanticleer, which the stranger endorses. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
At any rate, that strutting chanticleer, with his two meagre wives and one wizened chicken, is a sly side fleer at the tragic aspect of the law of descent. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
I do like to see a tall proud chanticleer strutting in the yard and barely giving way as I advance, almost ready to do battle with a stranger like a mastiff. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Messrs. Pinckney, Wise, and Leigh, are now found to be wholly at fault, and the chanticleer rhetoric of Messrs. Glascock and Garland stalks featherless and crest-fallen. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
The Coastal Carolina chanticleer dances during a game. From Wordnik.com. [TheSunNews.com: Local] Reference
The world has denied that chanticleer proclaims the day. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys to Bagdad] Reference
Never was chanticleer so crouse on his own dung-hill, as. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Comedy] Reference
No, we didn't object; we fell down in the snow and crowed like chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters] Reference
Early in the morning the voice of the chanticleer is heard greeting the dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Francois Millet] Reference
Once down, however, he shook his fluttered plumes, and crowed like any chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference
Crow like chanticleer, 69. might be supposed a, 423. that flies in heaven's air, 162. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
The gallant chanticleer has at command his amorous phrases and his terms of defiance. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference
Just as the hour is about to strike, a wooden figure of chanticleer appears and crows. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
A barnyard chanticleer and his family afford more matter than the best book ever written. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
Lucilla opened a paper, and waved triumphantly five of the long tippet-plumes of chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
For undertones, a neighboring wood-pecker tapping his tree, and the distant clarion of chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
Bright-eyed Shelley brought in a fluttering lark which burst into the song of Chaucer's chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [The World I Live In] Reference
He declared that he aimed to crow like chanticleer in the morning, if only to wake his neighbors up. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
On the far frontier of Texas, still unsettled by civilised man, no chanticleer gives note of the dawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference
I forgot to take your orders about your poultry; the partlets have not laid since I went, for little chanticleer. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
But an Eagle, circling overhead, heard the boasting chanticleer and, swooping down, carried him off to his nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter] Reference
This gave our cabin quite a chanticleer sort of comb along its top, and added to the picturesqueness of its appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness] Reference
For sounds, the chirping of crickets in the grass, the clarion of chanticleer, and the distant cawing of an early crow. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
For years no chanticleer had awakened echoes during the morning hours, and no hens or chickens wandered over the neglected farm. From Wordnik.com. [Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life] Reference
He is a comely fellow, with a blithe tongue and a merry eye, I warrant you a chanticleer who will lose nought for lack of crowing. From Wordnik.com. [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference
Tyrrell's attitude has especially amused me; his lungs begin to crow like chanticleer as often as the story comes up for discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
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