chanting

Example Sentences

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Virgin of Paradise! one of them, the smaller, is actually chaunting a hymn!”

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

And I remember all the sunny hours Of queens in hyacinth and skies of gold, And morning singing where the woods are scrolled And diapered above the chaunting flowers.

From Amores Poems by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Suddenly he was encircled by ten monks and chaunting heard.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

Domit. xvii. is a very singular painting, representing part of the choir of a cathedral, with ten monks sitting in their stalls, and chaunting the service.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

And it is recorded that tenscore damsels of wonderful beauty, clad all in white, preceded them upon the way, and spread the way with flowers, chaunting the while in voices of great rejoicing.

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard