 ... crowing of cocks before, at, and after sunrise. They are like clocks all set by the sun. Some hoarsely scrauching, James — some with a long, clear, silver chime — and now and then a bit bantam crowing twice for the statelier chanticleer's once...  Noctes Ambrosianae - Pàgina 283per John Wilson - 1904 - 484 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1829 - 840 pàgines
...crowing twice for the statelier chanticleer's once — and, by fancy's eye, seen strutting and sidling up, in his impudence, to hens of the largest size, not unaverse to the flirtation of the feathery- legged coxcomb. SHEPHERD. -Few folk hae seen oftener than me Natur' gettin' up i' the mornin'.... | |
 | 1829 - 846 pàgines
...crowing twice for the statelier chanticleer's once — and, by fancy's eye, seen strutting and sidling up, in his impudence, to hens of the largest size, not unaverse to the flirtation of the feathery- legged coxcomb. SHEPHERD. Few folk hae seen oftener than me Natur' gettin' up i' the mornin*... | |
 | John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - 1866 - 504 pàgines
...crowing twice for. the statelier chanticleer's once — and, by fancy's eye, seen strutting and sidling u,p, in his impudence, to hens of the largest size,...coxcomb. Shepherd. Few folk hae seen oftener than me Nalur' gettin' up i' the inornin'. It's no possible to help personifyin' her first into a goddess,... | |
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