How To Use cockcrow In A Sentence
- I was awakened before cockcrow by the sound of distant rifles.
- He farms, gets up at cockcrow for milking and still manages to run the award winning farm B & B with his wife and three sons.
- He, who neither drank nor smoked, who never wasted the weight of his arms in an embrace, nor the touch of his lips a second longer than the most perfunctory of kisses, who was invariably up before cockcrow and asleep ere the kerosene lamp had a tenth emptied itself, and who never thought to die, was dead even more quickly than Brother Hal and Prince Lilolilo. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
- If the phrase the cockcrowing be to be taken in this sense, then however we see that the people were assembled together before morning light: and yet I do not doubt but it ought to be rendered the cockcrowing, which might be made clear by many good proofs, if there were place or leisure for it. From the Talmud and Hebraica
- A visage would loom up at a party, or a literary reference would be on the tip of my tongue, and my recognition of the first or recollection of the second would dissolve like a ghost at cockcrow. On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part III
- Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
- The Jewish doctors distinguished the cockcrowing into the first, second, and third. From the Talmud and Hebraica
- The second son of a police chief, his duties began at cockcrow and included a strict daily fitness regime devised by his disciplinarian father.
- Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. Mark 13.
- The Misna on which this Gloss is hath these words; "Every day they remove the ashes from the altar about cockcrowing; but on the day of atonement at midnight," &c. From the Talmud and Hebraica
