How To Use Cockcrow In A Sentence
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The antients divided the night into different watches; the last of which was called cockcrow: and in consequence of this they kept a cock in their Tirat, or Towers, to give notice of the dawn.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
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Marching (100x15)
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Early this morning I got some Conservative literature stuffed through the door, no doubt pushed through the letterbox by someone in a rush to return to his vault before cockcrow.
Last in translation
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Archive 2008-02-01
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Indian boys play with makeshift bats and balls from cockcrow to nightfall.
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But it is not so; but it amounts to this sense, "Within the time of cockcrowing" thou shalt deny me thrice; for
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Mark 13: 35, that space after cockcrowing is called the morning.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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It is not at all strange that I should use the word “cockcrow,” for, like most of the others here, I have only a literary knowledge of prisons.
Calisher dead at 97
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(Also, in the pale cockcrow hours of the morning, the image of a snow-white tiger with a blood-splattered coat proved a nice and almost fashionable juxtaposition to paint-splattered stoles and my imagination just started to run with it.)
Verena von Pfetten: Dear Fashion Industry, Please Stop Showing Boring Clothes At Boring Shows
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A small trap in the path, baited with a mouse, to catch spotted cats (F. Genetta), is usually the first indication that we are drawing near to a village; but when we get within the sounds of pounding corn, cockcrowing, or the merry shouts of children at play, we know that the huts are but a few yards off, though the trees conceal them from view.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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Everyone in it seemed to stir into immediate life at cockcrow, and the farm then spun and whirred like a complicated bit of clockwork until after sunset, when one by one the cogs and wheels that made it run began to fall away, rolling off into the dark to seek supper and bed, only to reappear like magic in their proper places in the morning.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Well, you'll have to show up at cockcrow tomorrow.
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I was awakened before cockcrow by the sound of distant rifles.
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And thus our Saviour meets with the arrogance of Peter, foretelling him that he should not have the courage he so confidently assumed to himself, but should within the time and space of cockcrowing deny him thrice.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The Misna on which this Gloss is hath these words; "Every day they remove the ashes from the altar about cockcrowing; but on the day of atonement at midnight," &c.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Mark 13.
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The second son of a police chief, his duties began at cockcrow and included a strict daily fitness regime devised by his disciplinarian father.
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The Jewish doctors distinguished the cockcrowing into the first, second, and third.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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A visage would loom up at a party, or a literary reference would be on the tip of my tongue, and my recognition of the first or recollection of the second would dissolve like a ghost at cockcrow.
On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part III
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If the phrase the cockcrowing be to be taken in this sense, then however we see that the people were assembled together before morning light: and yet I do not doubt but it ought to be rendered the cockcrowing, which might be made clear by many good proofs, if there were place or leisure for it.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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He, who neither drank nor smoked, who never wasted the weight of his arms in an embrace, nor the touch of his lips a second longer than the most perfunctory of kisses, who was invariably up before cockcrow and asleep ere the kerosene lamp had a tenth emptied itself, and who never thought to die, was dead even more quickly than Brother Hal and Prince Lilolilo.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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He farms, gets up at cockcrow for milking and still manages to run the award winning farm B & B with his wife and three sons.
