cockcrow

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

But Mrs. Newcome had been beforehand with him, and had visited the Chevalier de Blois almost at cockcrow.

She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.

Then in their turn they went to bed, the whole farm lapsed into silence, surrendering itself to slumber until the first cockcrow.