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)

With your leave, I will try a canzonet I learned in London.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, 'Love in thine eyes forever plays'?

From A Romance of the Republic by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent; let me supervise the canzonet.

From Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel

"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