Cockcrows [noun]

I was up at cockcrow, heard Mass at the Grande glise, and bade good-bye to my amiable hostess.

Then he turned round and the swathed figures disappeared suddenly as ghosts at cockcrow.

Each day has twelve hours, twice the length of ours, of which the first begins at cockcrow.

Gigi, if you get up before cockcrow again I'll break your nose the next night while you sleep.

At the second cockcrow she tried to get into the coffin, and unavailingly begged him to take out the cross.

At the third cockcrow he put the scapulary on her, whereupon she rose and thanked him, promising to be his wife and servant.

The blows were regular and quite distinct, and without cessation until cockcrow.

At cockcrow next morning, he summoned his ministers before him, denounced them as false traitors and drove them all from office.

Boarding a ship's nothing, but to dig a grave on the land before cockcrow, with the man you're to put in it looking at you!

The epistles shall be ready by night, and you shall ride at cockcrow.