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Definition of Cockcrows
1. cockcrow [n] - See also: cockcrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockcrows
Literary usage of Cockcrows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"A room was to be constructed at the top of the house, where neither cockcrows
nor other sound could penetrate ; but until it was completed ' the unprotected ..."
2. Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger by Alan Seeger (1917)
"Nothing more adorable in Nature than this daybreak in the northeast in May and June.
One hears the cockcrows in the villages of that mysterious ..."
3. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... the sun and by cockcrows, and who have no other needs than slave labour,
sleeping, eating, and intoxication. They are not men, but beasts," the ..."
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