cock-crow

We learn from St. Epiphanius, that there were acme of the Christians who observed a strict fast from Monday morning to cock-crow of Easter Sunday.

Gueranger: The History of Passiontide and Holy Week 2009

“Before the first cock-crow,” Will whispered back.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

“Before the first cock-crow,” Will whispered back.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

A fourth century Spanish tourist recounted her experience of Morning Prayer in Jerusalem: a multitude had gathered outside before the cock-crow, waiting for the bishop to throw open the doors to a basilica sparkling with innumerable lights.

Column: Antiphons for Anti-Noise Michelle 2008

You are the cock-crow of gaudiness, a plastic figurine obsessed with make-believe.

Forum Grandstanding – (For Um!) Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

“Where dost thou propose to be at cock-crow?” said the

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Philipson; “but, not to bandy courtesy, at cock-crow I shall be relieved from my watch on the drawbridge, and will be by that time glad to exchange the post for a more extended walk.”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

A fourth century Spanish tourist recounted her experience of Morning Prayer in Jerusalem: a multitude had gathered outside before the cock-crow, waiting for the bishop to throw open the doors to a basilica sparkling with innumerable lights.

Archive 2008-11-01 Michelle 2008

And then suddenly the life would go out of them and they would sit round the table looking at one another with extinct eyes, like ghosts fading at cock-crow.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

And then suddenly the life would go out of them and they would sit round the table looking at one another with extinct eyes, like ghosts fading at cock-crow.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008