canzonet
Example Sentences
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He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while Brendon, overwhelmed by this extraordinary conversation, sat for an hour motionless and deep in thought.
From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden
Ah! who will take the bass parts in my canzonet now, I should like to know?
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
This was the meaning of last night's canzonet!
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles
"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
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
