crow'd

Updated: May 4, 2025

While he was yet speaking, a cock crow'd, at which Trimalchio grew disordered, and commanded the wine to be thrown under table, and sprinkle the larnps with it; then changing a ring to his right hand, "it is not for nothing," said he, "this trumpeter has given us notice; for either the house should be on fire, or one of the neighbourhood will kill himself: Far from us be it, and therefore, whoever brings me this discoverer I'll give him a reward."

Petronius Arbiter - The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter

I have been out in the barn, and an owl has crow'd at me!" "And what has this to do with playing cards?" "Little enough, Shorsha dear! If there were card-playing, I should not be frighted." "And why do you not play at cards?" "Did I not tell you that the thief, my uncle Phelim, stole away the pack?

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Then he tied the kite swing on t' the crow's leg, an' the crow flopped along 'n the boy followed him 'n bime bye they come out a cornfield, where the crow'd been used t' comin' fer his dinner. 'What 'come o' the boy? said I. 'Went home, said he, gaping, as he lay on his back and looked up at the tree-tops.

Irving Bacheller - Eben Holden, a tale of the north country

I have been out into the barn, and an owl has crow'd at me!" 'And what has this to do with playing cards? 'Little enough, Shorsha dear! If there were card-playing, I should not be frighted. 'And why do you not play at cards? 'Did I not tell you that the thief, my uncle Phelim, stole away the pack?

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

That with the napkin dally; I think he came like Ganymede, From some delightful valley. "The Cock was of a larger egg Than modern poultry drop, Stept forward on a firmer leg, And cramm'd a plumper crop; Upon an ampler dunghill trod, Crow'd lustier late and early, Sipt wine from silver, praising God, And raked in golden barley.

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London