Its groves resounded with the chants of the he-cuckoo; its various trees were bending under the weight of their flowers; and the grace of the gardens was enhanced by their charming arbours, artfully arranged.
At last one of them chants a mystic and terrible strain.
She hears in their chants and prayers those hopes and desires, and these are but the utterances of what she feels.
Despard could talk of his Byzantine poets, and thechants of the Eastern Church, without being in danger of reawakening painful memories.
The peculiarity of the sound of chants founded on these ancient scales to our modern ears is what we call the "lack of tonality.
In the beginning the chants of the Christian Church, from which the medieval chant was developed, were without system.
The bold Vizcaya's lightnings glance Into the throng Where loud the bannered Brooklyn chants Her awful song.
A message is sent to a father by a daughter in the same way, in Chodzko, Les Chantshistoriques de l'Ukraine, p.
No 3; French version, by the same, Ballades et Chants populaires, p.
Hautclere chants to the East (His tongue is silvery high), And Austyn like a priest Sends west a weighty cry.
But Doucement set between (Like an appeasive nun) Chants cheerly, Chants clearly, As if Christ heard her nearly, A plea to every sky.
When the candidate has been able to procure enough gifts to present to the society for the second degree, he takes his drum and offers chants (No.
The feasts and chants are indicated by the three drums shown at Nos.
But not daring to speak openly to Nicolette, he chants a musical warning, which comes just in time to enable her to hide behind a pillar.
From this reasoning it follows that folk-songs are derived from Gregorian chants, and not the Gregorian chants from the folk-songs--as I would sooner believe.
After singing Palestrinian and Gregorian chants at the Church of Saint-Gervais during Holy Week, they played Carissimi, Schütz, and the Italian and German masters of the seventeenth century.
Footnote 245: Three series of these Chants populaires pour les Écoles have already been published.
Bourgault-Ducoudray, who was his forerunner with his Chants de Fontenoy, collections of songs for the Écoles Normales.
At the profession the nun prostrates herself, and is entirely covered with a funereal pall, while the choir chants in solemn cadence the psalm for the dead--De Profundis.
They never heard glorious chants nor saw processions of clerics clad in golden robes; no ritual, no symbol even, was there to help them on; and yet they were saints.
In their liturgy there are four special hymns for each of these stations or reposoirs, and, when the latter exceed that number, the chants are repeated until they have all been visited.
Walther appears; and Eva chants a melody that is surely first cousin to one of the greatest in Euryanthe.
These prose chants took their rise at an early period among the sodalities (cofradias), organized under the name of some particular saint.
A collection of the songs, chants and metrical compositions of the Indians, designed to display the emotional and imaginative powers of the race and the prosody of their languages.
One of the Malas, called the Asadi, chants the praises of the goddess during the ceremony.
The Brahmans object to this, however, as the bells are carried by low-caste persons, who ring them with their feet, to the accompaniment of chantsintended to insult the Brahmans and their religious creeds.
A collection ofchants in the cause of justice and brotherhood.
I hang the crimson cords of thy scabbard upon my shoulder, and thou shalt henceforth clank in silver music at my side, singing to my ear, and mine alone, thy chants of battle, thy rejoicing songs of slaughter!
Mustapha was the last, and kept not only himself, but myself, wide awake by his dolorous chants of love and religion.
After going through several times with the usual Moslem prayer, they move in slow march around the room, while a choir in the gallery chants Arabic phrases in a manner very similar to the mass in Catholic churches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
