Few words were said, yet the faces of all were as a loudly chanted litany of dreads.
The while her eyes remained fixed and vacant and she danced slowly, she chanted a sort of weird incantation in the gerigonza of the Zincali.
Swinburne called this "the most sonorous nocturn ever chanted in the church of the world.
Then followed the new gospel, "I celebrate myself," chanted in long lines of free verse, whose patterns perplexed contemporary readers.
And he chanted the following verses: O pleasaunce of hell-fire and paradise of pain!
The priests and monks prayed aloud, girding on their girdles and uplifting the crosses, whilst the Muslims shouted out the praises of the Requiting King and chanted verses of the Koran.
Then the sun turned pale, the Muezzins chanted the call to the prayer of sunset and the night came; but I saw no sign nor heard aught of her.
The sky had darkened since he entered the house, and while the old bard chanted in his sing-song voice, and the children made their clatter around his feet, a storm of heavy rain pelted against the window-pane.
Thus, with a swinging motion of the body, the old bard of the mountainschanted this rude song on the dangers of damnation.
Nelly swallowed the cold drops and caught her breath, for a dreadful pain shot through her from her head to her feet, while the mermaids chanted some strange words and waved their hands over her.
They chanted psalms in the streets and took vows in the churches to fast three days in order to help assure the repose of the Marshal's soul.
A young woman crowned with wheaten ears led several others, all of whom chanted some melancholy air about the end of the harvest.
We need no solemn knell, no tolling bells, No chanted dirge, no vain words sadly said.
But he chanted a song for the brave and the free-- Just read on his medal, 'My Country, of Thee!
The beauty of the morning set her pulses thrilling, and chanted in her ears a song of freedom.
No flying for me, until flying's free," he chanted drearily.
We are going to the Falls, the Falls, the Falls, We are going to the Falls in the morning," chanted the prospective travellers.
Here faded Miss Arabella thumped mechanically on the piano, while the pupils of Wentworth House School chanted an inexplicable and interminable ditty entitled "Doh-ray-me-fah.
The poet suggests that it bechanted to the tune of the old hymn, "Hark, ten thousand harps and voices.
As he was entering the sanctuary of the consecrated fire, an invisible being chanted a verse in celestial strains.
Grace having been chanted and justice done to the sumptuous tea, the public meeting began.
Amid the hospitable glow, Like an old actor on the stage, With the uncertain voice of age, The singing chimney chanted low The homely songs of long ago.
It was the Prince: he stood at the door, And listened a moment, as wechanted The evening song.
Once some ancient Scald, In his bleak, ancestral Iceland, Chanted staves of these old ballads To the Vikings.
Till at length the lays they chanted Reached the chamber terror-haunted, Where the monk, with accents holy, Whispered at the baron's ear.
To you are chanted Songs which yet no mortal ear have haunted.
Haui ka Lani, a prophetic song foretelling the deeds of Kamehameha I, chanted by Keaulumoku eight years before the defeat of Keoua.
Song of Kualii Tawaii chanted by Kupaahulani and Kamakaaulani.
You have had no woman since we two have been living here, yet in your song you chanted as if you had a woman here.
Hence we may suppose that the cry maa-ne-hra was chanted by the reapers over the cut corn as a dirge for the death of the corn-spirit (Isis or Osiris) and a prayer for its return.
M183) In Bithynia a like mournful ditty, called Bormus or Borimus, was chanted by Mariandynian reapers.
They resumed their gallant conversation, and then in another moment they stopped again and listened to that species of ill-omened chant, chanted by Death, which was approaching.
The third is that of the Sequence, wherein the accentual rhyming hymn springs from the chanted prose, which had superseded the chanting of the final a of the Alleluia.
The Sequences were the tropes appended to the last Alleluia of the Gradual, the psalm chanted in the celebration of the Mass, between the reading of the Epistle and the Gospel.
They chanted the dangers and difficulties of the old Federation and the advantages of the new Constitution.
All which is duly chanted in her ear in moonlight walks or sails, and so often repeated that a sensible girl may be excused for believing that a little of it may be true.
The dog of a celebrated singer whom I knew would moan bitterly, and give signs of violent suffering, the instant that his mistress chanted a chromatic gamut.
Meanwhile the first singer has again recited orchanted his ballad, and, having forgotten the exact wording, has altered it, and perhaps introduced improvements.
Ritson mentions a minstrel of Derbyshire, and another from Gloucester, whochanted the ballad of Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chanted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
