The hound hunted all night. He quit when the roosters started crowing at daybreak.
It was dawn, and I could hear a cock crowing somewhere.
The report was received rapturously by the relatives of the victims, but their response was more an outpouring of relief and elation than crowing over an old enemy.
As for Marx's clever analogy of the so-called "crowing French Chantecler," it did indeed have a Chantecler's instinct-to turn to the East and crow long and loud, the only trouble being that it mistook the sun flag [of Japan] for the real sun.
The ass saw that the lion ran away at the mere crowing of a cock, and therefore summoned courage to attack the lion, and galloped after him for that purpose.
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