"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.'" ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By Anonymous, at Mon Jan 15, 02:36:00 PM where was that statement, chanticleer? ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)
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". ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)
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 ❋ Unknown (2006)
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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
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. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Looking up past creeper-grown lattice windows, Wexford noticed its fellow, a crowing chanticleer on the weather vane. ❋ Rendell, Ruth, 1930- (1970)
If he admitted his guilt, he would be unfrocked; he would show like a chanticleer stripped of his hackles before his hens. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
At high noon the twelve apostles come out from the famous horologe and take up their march, and chanticleer, on one of the summits of the clock-case, opens his brazen throat and crows loud enough to fill the farthest recesses of the church with his harsh alarum. ❋ Various (N/A)
If abroad for purely constitutional purposes, the crowing chanticleer must be forced to pass the same objects many times in review. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)
The cows, grazing below in the valleys, were whisking their tails, and from the farm-yards came the crow of the chanticleer. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)
Habitual brandy-drinkers give out sooner than cold-water men, and we have seen fainting red noses by the score succumb to the weather, when boys addicted to water would crow like chanticleer through a long storm of sleet and snow on the freezing Alps. It is not well to lose your way; but in case this unpleasant luck befall you, set _systematically_ to work to find it. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
They had hardly passed out of their beauty sleep -- _i. e._, the slumber before midnight -- when, as the clocks were striking twelve, and an early chanticleer was crowing for the morn, Edie was awakened by some mysterious sounds -- sounds as of something bumping against the walls of the house outside. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
There is something very sociable, and quiet, and soothing, too, in their soliloquies and converse among themselves; and, in an idle and half-meditative mood, it is very pleasant to watch a party of hens picking up their daily subsistence, with a gallant chanticleer in the midst of them. ❋ Various (N/A)
Margaret would be thrang with her white hands in a measure of grain, and I would be hearing her speaking to the chanticleer. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
most of [us] [do not] [eat] chanticleers. ❋ Sarah Steadywithmen (2006)
Person 1: OMG [Twilight] is [coming out] next month
Person 2: STFU [Chanticleer] ❋ Godspeedmowkidsjfdio (2011)
A Ravenous Chanticleer [jabbed] into [Hermione] as Ron [rammed] hard against her sleeve. ❋ Charged-Socket (2017)
