canzonet

Example Sentences

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With a canzonet and tabor, Thus, with ho-ho-ho! and our hi-hi-hi!

From Soldier Songs and Love Songs by Laidlaw, A. H. (Alexander Hamilton)

Etienne sang once more the pretty canzonet, with a new expression, a new meaning.

From The Hated Son by Balzac, Honoré de

Percy sings a Spanish seguidilla, or a German lied, or a French romance, or a Neapolitan canzonet, which, I am bound to say, excites very little attention.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I will have a canzonet made, with nothing in it but sirrah; and the burthen shall be, I come.

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

"Much better," observed Joungevello, the minstrel; "I shall write a canzonet in her praise, and sing it before the king."

From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison