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    crowing


    1. A cockerel somewhere in the village stirred, crowing half heartedly to welcome the day


    2. He said it before, once, instead of crowing about it every week for the next ten years


    3. were astonished to hear the nearby crowing of a cock


    4. The first thing Frank was conscious of, was a rooster crowing on a nearby farm


    5. The press, always tame and wanting more crackers, parroted it as a major coup, literally crowing it from the rooftops in some cases


    6. I awoke to the crowing of a rooster


    7. Be diligent watch and pray because you know not when it is the time because the Son of Man is like a man taking a distant journey who left his house and who gave authority to his servants and gave to every man his work and commanded the doorman to watch; therefore watch because you know not when the master of the house comes at evening or at midnight or at the cock crowing or in the morning; In case that if in coming suddenly he finds you sleeping and what I say to you I say to you all; watch out!


    8. She once said, “it’s a sad house where the cock is quiet and the hen does all the crowing


    9. He strutted about, clapping his massive wings and crowing in the pride of a good father


    10. That Peter was brought to the realization that he had repeatedly denied his Master by the crowing of a cock indicates that this all occurred outside of Jerusalem since it was against the law to keep poultry within the city proper

    11. 11 Until the crowing of the cock brought Peter to his better senses, he had only thought, as he walked up and down the porch to keep warm, how cleverly he had eluded the accusations of the servants, and how he had frustrated their purpose to identify him with Jesus


    12. With all the clucking going on, and with the rooster still crowing as well, Palomita and Squirrel Girl had both opened their eyes


    13. They said they started crowing and clucking and bawling and squealing not out of fear of the snakes (although Palomita said she had seen their eyes rolling in their heads with fear), but because the crows had come to tell them they had been tricked and now would not have food when winter came


    14. Finally, she heard a rooster crowing just before she fell asleep


    15. The moment it took the gods to harness their horses to the chariot of the new day which broke along a vast horizon of fire to the song of garden birds, punctuated by more distant crowing, barking, and cawing


    16. mergers, with the hoopla of CNBC crowing about “Merger Mondays!”, is that both


    17. It's gotten to where my morning fart is equal parts the crowing of a rooster, a bugle blowing reveille and a starter's pistol


    18. celebration, bouts of nervousness and embarrassment, feelings of anxiety, and no shortage of inflated egos crowing to be heard above the crowd


    19. He goes to bed to sleep but his slumber dwindles away till the crowing of the cocks,


    20. Man became a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill, blind looking for something which is not there

    21. Male voices were crowing like cockerels and girls were clucking like hens


    22. When she came back to get the dinner ready, the baby was still crowing placidly in its perambulator, and the little Elizabeth, with all the clothes burnt off her body, was lying near the grate dead


    23. The voice laughed a triumphant, crowing laugh


    24. somewhere outside and the sound of a cock crowing, or was it


    25. standing on me and crowing loudly


    26. Peter stared at the roosters, their crowing coming at


    27. For example some times the crowing of a neighbor’s rooster becomes a source of annoyance and irritation for us but we forget that if the crowing of the rooster was really harming then why the owners are immune to it


    28. Actually this idea of suffering from rooster’s crowing or dog’s barking is just a fiction and story concocted by our egos just to tantalize us and unknowingly we fall a prey to it


    29. "How beautiful this is!" as they all sat together in her sunny room, the babies kicking and crowing on the floor, mother and sisters working near, and father reading, in his pleasant voice, from the wise old books which seemed rich in good and comfortable words, as applicable now as when written centuries ago, a little chapel, where a paternal priest taught his flock the hard lessons all must learn, trying to show them that hope can comfort love, and faith make resignation possible


    30. All sorts of joyous sounds filled the air; the jolting of a cart rolling afar off in the ruts, the crowing of a cock, repeated again and again, or the gambling of a foal running away under the apple-trees: The pure sky was fretted with rosy clouds; a bluish haze rested upon the cots covered with iris

    31. Cocks were still crowing


    32. He wore the blue bag in the manner of my great-coat, and was strutting along the pavement towards me on the opposite side of the street, attended by a company of delighted young friends to whom he from time to time exclaimed, with a wave of his hand, "Don't know yah!" Words cannot state the amount of aggravation and injury wreaked upon me by Trabb's boy, when passing abreast of me, he pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair, stuck an arm akimbo, and smirked extravagantly by, wriggling his elbows and body, and drawling to his attendants, "Don't know yah, don't know yah, 'pon my soul don't know yah!" The disgrace attendant on his immediately afterwards taking to crowing and pursuing me across the bridge with crows, as from an exceedingly dejected fowl who had known me when I was a blacksmith, culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was, so to speak, ejected by it into the open country


    33. They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when they were awakened by the crowing of a green cock that lived in the back yard of the Palace, and the cackling of a hen that had laid a green egg


    34. It was interrupted by the crowing of a cock


    35. But she herself would come to fetch me as soon as this Ceremony was o’er, whereupon a Great Feast should begin which would last until Dawn and the first Crowing of the Cock


    36. Cindy was crowing about her interview with Hans Vetter’s uncle, and Yuki, having put on a couple of ounces since recovering from being drugged with LSD and almost killed by Jason Twilly, chortled at Cindy’s jokes


    37. One voice was heard shouting: ‘Eyes front!’ Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was repeated by others from various sides and all became silent


    38. By the time they got near Mozhaysk and began ascending the steep hill into the town, the cocks were already crowing


    39. He’s been strutting around like a young cock-horror for the last week, crowing about it to anyone who’d listen


    40. Zoned by those letters you saw the likeness of three Andes' summits; from one a flame; a tower on another; on the third a crowing cock; while arching over all was a segment of the partitioned zodiac, the signs all marked with their usual cabalistics, and the keystone sun entering the equinoctial point at Libra

    41. He'll have to stop crowing about being bigger


    42. Somewhere in the fog, not far off, a cock crowed; another answered, and then others, far in the village took up the cry till the sound of the crowing blended into one, while all around was silent excepting the river


    43. In the court-yard a cock crowed, others near by responded; then from the village, first singly, interrupting each other, then mingling into one chorus, was heard the crowing of all the cocks


    44. One voice was heard shouting: “Eyes front!” Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was repeated by others from various sides and all became silent


    45. By the time they got near Mozháysk and began ascending the steep hill into the town, the cocks were already crowing


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    Synonyms for "crowing"

    brag bragging crow crowing gasconade line-shooting vaporing big boastful braggart braggy cock-a-hoop self-aggrandising self-aggrandizing

    "crowing" definitions

    an instance of boastful talk


    exhibiting self-importance