at cockcrow

"We have to be on the road at cockcrow."

But at cockcrow he awoke to a great disquiet and anger.

We will call her at cockcrow when we start."

At cockcrow his head ached and his mouth tasted like dead fish.

Jim Chopin climbed out, resplendent in blue and gold even at cockcrow.

"If ever the gods gave a man a powerful dream, they gave one to me at cockcrow.

If I'm still moaning on my painful couch at cockcrow, you'll leave without me, no doubt?"

By rights, you should have dissolved at cockcrow."

The horns of the Rohirrim are heard at cockcrow.

Nor did they vanish at cockcrow.

He woke the next morning at cockcrow, but he dawdled at length.

His lips opened and a low moaning came out, such as a ghost utters at cockcrow, infinitely sad.

In some places laminas had to go away if the bridge they were building at night was left unfinished at cockcrow.

As if at a signal, clock after clock took up the cry: all the churches awoke like chickens at cockcrow.

Then the magic blew away beneath the threshing of a hel- icopter, dissolved like a dream at cockcrow.

He fancied himself in the role of Professor Van Helsing, tracking down the scourge of humanity and driving a stake through its heart at cockcrow.

Sarum Chant: Missa in Gallicantu (Mass at Cockcrow)

The men were astir at cockcrow, to march to the Field of Purgation at break of day, and get the rite finished before the crushing heat of noon.

THE CHEESWRING - the topmost stone turns at cockcrow.

Stewart Conn, Edinburgh's first appointed Makar, has celebrated Roull's memory in his volume Ghosts at Cockcrow.

Thus the horns of the Rohirrim are heard at cockcrow on March 14 in the chronology of the present texts, but on March 15 in LR.

(Mem., this diary seems horribly like the beginning of the "Arabian Nights," for everything has to break off at cockcrow, or like the ghost of Hamlet's father.)

"Find that shepherd boy," Saul would shout, whether at cockcrow time or lamplighting time, and then, with David kneeling before him, he would raise his hand to hush the chatter of Rizpah and Michal and order David to sing.

For the rest, she knew that after office- hours, she reigned supreme over all the office furniture, and over a locked-up iron room with three locks, against the door of which strong chamber the light porter laid his head every night, on a truckle bed, that disappeared at cockcrow.