In the old grandfather's agony, in the wild chant of the stricken grandmother, in the brother's stern and terrible calmness Shefford felt more than the death of a loved one.
In the gray of dawn, when the hush of the desert night still lay deep over the land, the Navajo stirred in his blanket and began to chant to the morning light.
And through thechant a second melody Rose like the throbbing of a single string: "I am an angel, and thou art the king!
Is his chant sublime, Filled with the glories of the future time?
And leaning back, he yawned and fell asleep, Lulled by thechant monotonous and deep.
The singer refuses tochant and from his hand has thrown the drum.
In the first melody of fifteen lines the choir chant the glory of the moon god and his city Ur.
The priest himself, a lord and prince, will come out in his golden cope, and chant in the royal speech of that great empire which is no more.
When the tireless bell rings at the wonted hours, they yawn; while the nasal chant is singing in the old Latin words, they yawn.
The priest, when he came on Sunday to perform service in the woodland chapel, found the legendary chantalready in every mouth.
Tchaikovsky was deeply affected by his loss, and dedicated to his memory the Chant Elégiaque, op.
The second is a very quick Scherzo, and the third a 'Chant sans Paroles.
The choir used to sing on all the four sides, but on one occasion a choir-boy fell, and ever since they only chant the hymn from three sides.
In this chant it asserted itself still more savagely, for it threatened to strike the waters, and break in pieces the mountains, and to rend asunder the depths of heaven by thunder-bolts.
One of the first conditions for rendering it well, is that the voices should go together, that they should all chant in the same time syllable for syllable and note for note, in one word it must be in unison.
Far away from this infamous barter of the flesh, plain chant remains shut up in the antiphonaries, like a monk in the cloister, and when it goes forth, it is to cast up before Christ his garnered pains and sorrows.
A slow and mournful chant arose, the "De Profundis.
Instead of wishing to make plain chant supple and to thrust it into the mould of modern harmony, he constrained that harmony to bend itself to the austere tonality of plain chant.
When the organ sounded out the first chords, and that plain chant melody began, the choir had only to cross their arms and hold their tongues.
He prohibited choirs at the same time to change plain chant into fiorituri.
And through the chant a second melody Rose like the throbbing of a single string, 'I am an angel, and thou art the king!
And, leaning back, he yawned, and fell asleep, Lulled by the chant monotonous and deep.
Come to thine own heroic throng Stalking with Liberty along, And chant thy dauntless slogan-song, Maryland, my Maryland!
Amid the monotonous chant that always accompanied gambling, the two polished bits of bone (the winning one marked, the other not) were passed secretly from hand to hand.
He knelt down, and began to sway his body back and forth after the manner of the Nootka shamans, and to chant a long, low, monotonous song, in which the names of the dead who lay there were repeated over and over again.
He laid aside his blanket, exposing his stripped body; and with his eagle plume, in his hair and his stone tomahawk in his hand, began to dance the war-dance of his tribe and to chant the song of the battles he had fought.
No man living would have had the patience to talk and talk, and sing and chant as he did to his beautiful, helpless prisoner.
The unexpected visitor fell on her knees and at once began to chant and mumble mysteriously, as though she thought Gabrielle understood all the magic of her land.
Chant thou for me, first, and on the other side let Menalcas reply.
Ye Strymonian swans, sadly wail ye by the waters, and chant with melancholy notes the dolorous song, even such a song as in his time with voice like yours he was wont to sing.
From Zeus let us begin, and with Zeus make end, ye Muses, whensoever we chant in songs the chiefest of immortals!
And to my reed shall chant a rural lay; Since others long thy praises to rehearse, And sing thy battles in immortal verse.
The anchor is up again and its "paddle and go,"--the leadsman is at his chant again.
When rowers were in a boat the swinging oars became rhythmic, and the oarsman's chant naturally followed.
Let me join with you the jubilant procession; let me chant with you her story; Then contented I shall go back to the shamrocks, now mine eyes have seen her glory!
When their prayers were ended they began to chant hymns in a slow measure.
The sloth and insolence of these priests passes all comparison; excepting their religious ceremonies, in which they chant some prayers and play on their instruments, they do absolutely nothing but eat, drink, and sleep.
The chant rang through a stillness broken only by the low snap and crackle of the fires.
Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
If one could listen but for an instant to the chant of the Indian muse, we should understand why he will not exchange his savageness for civilization.
Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
Their prayers are passages from Cicero and Seneca, and they chantlong poems instead of psalms; so that in their zeal they endured a little tediousness.
Thee was a noise like the chant of the lost, and then there appeared in the midst of the orgy, beneath a red flame, the figure of a woman.
And the rapture of love had made it all so vivid and warm with life, that even now, when he let his pen drop, the rich noise of the tavern and the chant of the theatre sounded above the murmur of the streets.
The office had already commenced; the monotonous plain-chant by deep-toned voices had reached me in the corridors.
At three o'clock the chill and awful silence was broken by the white-robed prior, who rose from his low posture like a dead man in his shroud, and began to chant in another tone and measure from what had gone before.
When the morning light and sunshine returned, the chant of the running water was as soothing as the song of birds.
