carol
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The mother and daughter sat together to play a piece they know well by Scottish composer Erland Cooper, for Catherine's Christmas carol concert.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
Britain's Princess Catherine and her daughter Charlotte have teamed up to perform a piano duet in a prerecorded clip for a Wednesday replay of a Christmas carol service.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
In her Christmas message, the Archbishop said she had chosen a passage from the Gospel of John about finding light in the darkness, a popular choice at carol services.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
The King will be seen standing in front of Christmas trees which were brought to decorate the Abbey for the Princess of Wales's carol concert held earlier this month.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
Brother Luke was teaching him to sing a carol, because it was near to the Feast of Christmas.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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Girl Scouts sing carols as onlookers sip cocoa at the annual lighting ceremony.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
The dazzling display of lights, accompanied by religious and festive imagery and soundtracked by Filipino rap and Christmas carols, is part of the annual Giant Lantern Festival.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
Her first memories of Christmas are as a child in the town of Lviv where she would have to mend her own shoes and go house to house singing Christmas carols to earn small change.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
He commissioned new compositions and laid the groundwork for what would become Tubachristmas, a yearly event held in hundreds of cities across the world featuring many traditional carols.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Breakfast was eggnog and hot tea and cookies and carols and colored lights and love.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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“For he’s a jolly good patient, for he’s a jolly good patient, for he’s a jolly good patient, which no one can deny!” the staff caroled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Crystal’s uncle, a professional Santa, was at home with the sniffles, but the group still caroled before perplexed motorists.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2016
For want of glitzy decorations, flowers adorn communal areas and hymns are caroled with great gusto.
From Time ● Dec. 25, 2013
"She certainly won't get any publicity from me !" caroled Miss Lawrence on the Aquitania.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And then, from the tall pines and birches that ringed the pond, a wood thrush caroled.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
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He’s made personal appearances at Atlanta Braves games and carolled with the Falcons.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 19, 2019
After a prima donna had carolled the National Anthem, John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, gave the "Caseys" the freedom of the City in one of his famed welcome-speeches.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And as I passed thro' Pateley Brigg, A woman carolled blithely, And up and down the cobbled streets The bairnies skipped so lithely.
From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
"He'd better remain, for I don't think he'll go," gaily carolled the Chief Justice, with a reminiscence of a burlesque written at a time when burlesques were comic.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 by Various
The roses were blowing, like whales in the sea Where the apple-bloom icebergs plunged fearless and free, And the larks carolled madly their high jubilee In the ether.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various
At the previous luncheon, Rice had pledged to send GEO employees Christmas caroling across town; he even gave Mayor LaDawn Edwards $300.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2025
Instead of caroling and ringing church bells, the most prominent sounds on Christmastide were now town criers calling: "No Christmas! No Christmas!"
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
Further down along the coast in the New England-styled town of Seabrook, Jolly Days start on November 24 with a holiday tree lighting and caroling, and extend through December 16.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Christmas means different traditions for those who celebrate, whether it's white elephant gifts, seeing holiday lights, volunteering, caroling with good company or partaking in various foods.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022
It was not going to be an evening of Joyous caroling and exchanging gifts around a Christmas tree.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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No carolling, no parties and even Germany's much loved glühwein stalls will close, as drinking outdoors is banned.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2020
The Rockettes notwithstanding, you’d be hard pressed to find a more authentically New York City holiday tradition than this annual boom-box carolling event, devised and led by the composer Phil Kline.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2019
Several years ago, I was at a Christmas party at home in the South when the host, a local gospel singer, was asked to sing before any official carolling got under way.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 27, 2016
Each year, he packs out concert halls across the UK with repertoire ranging from Bach to John Rutter, Handel's Messiah, carolling choirs like King's College, Cambridge and a sprinkling of pop.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2010
“I have heard her carolling like a bird.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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