So, as a Chinese state mouthpiece crowed, Sri Lanka had no choice but “to turn around and embrace China again.”

Later, China inflicted a humiliating defeat on India in the 1962 border war, securing peace, as a state mouthpiece crowed in 2012, on its own terms.

He died about two hours and ten minutes before the cock crowed, as near as we can say."

Thou hast fallen in with a soul as dry as a rush and a heart as hard as oak; had it been me, i'faith 'another cock would have crowed to thee.'"

"Thou art a bold friar," said the warder, "to come hither, where, saving our own drunken confessor, a cock of thy feather hath not crowed these twenty years."

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