chantry

Example Sentences

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One Friday toward the end of September the monks of the choir stood practicing in the chantry.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

At the lectern during rehearsals he turned the pages of the missal, a book of music notes large enough for all the Brothers to see as they stood in the chantry.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

He was afterwards rector of Abbreochy, Loch Ness, and later held a chantry in the cathedral of Norway.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

Moreover, a gild like a chantry, had sometimes more than one gild priest.

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William

To make my lady's obsequies, My love a minster wrought, And in the chantry, service there Was sung by doleful thought.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various