Example Sentences

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They can sing anything, most tunably, sir, but psalms.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

He played the old Irish air so simply and tunably that Rolfe leaned back in his chair, with half closed eyes, in soft voluptuous ecstasy.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

The noise of the organ filled the church, and the clerks sang tunably in the choir.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

But this is the way of the world, that when a man or woman sings more tunably than his fellows, those about the fire fall upon him, pell-mell, for reason of their envy.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de

Then she laughed, and her laughter was as silver bells rung tunably, and she said: "But where is the cup for the drinking?"

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William