Rooster

“The cock that crowed in the morn.”

1806.  The New-York Rooster—May he continue to crow.—The Balance, July 22, p. 227/1.

1829.  The old rooster commenced a shrill shout of triumph.—Mass. Spy, Sept. 23.

1833.  Sargent Joel flew round like a ravin’ distracted rooster. He called out the company every morning before sunrise, and marched ’em up and down the road three hours every day.—Seba Smith, ‘Major Jack Downing,’ p. 216 (1860).

1840.  [One of the standards of the N.Y. delegation to the Bunker Hill Convention] represented an inverted rooster, labelled Chapman, with the words:—

1842.  The Rooster as a pictorial sign of Democratic victory; also the “Old Coon on his Beam Ends”—Phila. Spirit of the Times, July 20: also the Oregon Weekly Times, Sept. 11, 1858.

1844.  Balanced on one leg, there stands the same old rooster, upon the very block where so many of his progeny had suffered under the hand of remorseless Betty.—Watmough, ‘Scribblings and Sketches,’ p. 182.

1847.  As mean as a rooster in a thunder shower.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 7.

1851.  He stole his mother’s roosters to fight them at Bob Smith’s grocery.—J. J. Hooper, ‘Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs,’ &c., pp. 13–4 (Phila.).

1853.  There was a rooster on the fence, flapping his wings and crowing like a Trojan.—Oregonian, Aug. 20.

1854.  [He is] driven by his wife, just as our old rooster is driven about by that cantankerous crabbed Dorking hen.—J. W. Spaulding, in the Weekly Oregonian, Dec. 23.

1854.  The gray of each morning was first heralded by a famous rooster, which I had imported from the east.—H. H. Riley, ‘Puddleford,’ p. 110 (N.Y.).

1855.  It was a bird about the size of a large rooster, with no tail, no comb, and no steel gaffles.—Knick. Mag., xlv. 43 (Jan.).

1857.  Mass’ Porte! day is breakin’—roosters been a-crowin’ dis hour!—D. H. Strother, ‘Virginia Illustrated,’ p. 214 (N.Y.).

1857.  His father, had a great barn, above which, as was the fashion long ago, perched upon a staff, a few feet above the ridgepole, was a weather-cock, fashioned out of a piece of board in the shape of a rooster.—S. H. Hammond, ‘Wild Northern Scenes,’ p. 107.

1860.  “Crow, Chapman, Crow!”—Heading of an article in the Richmond Enquirer, Nov. 2, p. 1/5.

1862.  The leading Democratic paper of my State published a handbill with a large crowing rooster, announcing in his jubilant proclamation that they had buried me so deep, the resurrection would never find me.—Mr. John P. Hale of New Hampshire, U.S. Senate, May 6: Cong. Globe, p. 1956/2.

1866.