cockcrow

• She had always awoken at cockcrow, ready for whatever the new day might hold. —  KISSED BY SHADOWS
• A voice which all at once, when the hour had come, like the cockcrow announcing the dawn, like the cry of the eagle hailing the sun, resounded like a clarion of war, or like the trumpet of judgment, and brought to their feet once more, awe-inspiring, waving their winding-sheets, seeking swords in their tombs, all those heroic dead nations,--Poland, Hungary, Italy! —  Napoleon the Little
• 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.)
• It was this bird's note, on this morning, and not the others, which seemed to bring round me that atmosphere of dreams and fancies I exist in at early cockcrow--dreams and memories, sweet or sorrowful, of old scenes and faces, and many eloquent passages in verse and prose, written by men in other and better days, who lived more with nature than we do now. —  Birds in Town and Village
• Over all was a Sunday stillness, broken only by the occasional bark of a distant dog or a cockcrow that was almost musical as it was borne by on the wind. —  Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond

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