cockcrows

Distant and nearer cockcrows rang out above the melodious tumult, through which a low, confused undertone, scarcely apparent at first, was growing louder -- the dull sound of the stirring of many men.

Special Messenger 1899

It was still early, and the cockcrows, and the slanting lights, and the long shadows encouraged me to be out and look round me.

Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes 1879

It was still early, and the cockcrows, and the slanting lights, and the long shadows encouraged me to be out and look round me.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

It was still early, and the cockcrows, and the slanting lights, and the long shadows, encouraged me to be out and look round me.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I stood on the platform by the hour; and as I saw, one after another, pleasant villages, carts upon the highway and fishers by the stream, and heard cockcrows and cheery voices in the distance, and beheld the sun, no longer shining blankly on the plains of ocean, but striking among shapely hills and his light dispersed and coloured by a thousand accidents of form and surface, I began to exult with myself upon this rise in life like a man who had come into a rich estate.

Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892