chanticleer

• He rushed out and found that a fox had seized his favourite "chanticleer." —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
• If he admitted his guilt, he would be unfrocked; he would show like a chanticleer stripped of his hackles before his hens. —  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
• His white lady had accepted the invitation of the chanticleer (which she probably thought was general), and sprang forward as fast as she could with her long legs, and stuck her head between the two hens to have a share of their treat. —  Strife and Peace
• We have no spite at chanticleer, nor the hooting owls against whom he is so lustily crowing hours before the orient; nor do we care although we know that is not the first sudden plunge of the tyrant trout into the insect cloud already hovering over the tarn. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• Whereat I laughed Like chanticleer, the name of hope to hear Thus strike upon my ear profane, as if A jest it were, or prattle of a child Just weaned. —  The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

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