chanticleer

• “And you rolling to bed and shouting like chanticleer, 'Sing cucu, sing cucu, cucu nu nu cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu.”

  Chapter 11

• “The group is the Grammy-winning all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer (chanticleer. org), which had sung some holiday songs on the Today show last Friday.”

  Albert Imperato: Chanticleer Hits Prime Time

• “By Anonymous, at Mon Jan 15, 02:36:00 PM where was that statement, chanticleer?”

  The Voters Deserve a Choice

• “And chanticleer, I remember the translation service once informing us in Committee that the Welsh-speaking Chief Executive of the Wales Tourist Board had said "In Wales, it is usually p**sing down".”

  Extending Parliamentary Language

• “He had a couple of bedrooms adjacent to this sitting-room, and when Binnie, as brisk and rosy about the gills as chanticleer, broke out in a morning salutation, “Hush,” says the”

  The Newcomes

• “In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy, relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace-of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.”

  Washington Irving

• “As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.”

  Walden

• “In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.”

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

• “Looking up past creeper-grown lattice windows, Wexford noticed its fellow, a crowing chanticleer on the weather vane.”

  A Guilty Thing Surprised

• “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.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860

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