He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
When you hear that howl alone at night in the forest, it's one of the most frightening sounds you'll ever hear.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.