Therefore, if’t be thy true desire, We chaunt thy lauds at Easter quire.
I will commit your members to such a sepulchre; I will burn your form with such wood, and will chaunt such a charm over your funeral pyre, that all incantations shall thereafter assail you in vain.
The chaunt of the Thessalian witch penetrates the furthest seat of the Gods, and contains words so powerful, that not the care of the skies, or of the revolving spheres, can avail as an excuse to the deities to decline its force.
I send you, however, an appropriate song, which our late pastor used to chaunt over his red-herring whenever a friend from Cork would drop in to partake of such lenten entertainment as his frugal kitchen could afford.
You sing the dawn; they celebrate life done; Marching you chaunt my soul's awakening hymn, Stars that no sun has ever made grow dim!
For thou, to keep thy body to thy soul, Must swing a censer, wear a holy stole, And chaunt Te Deums with unbelief between.
Harke the birds in yonder Groaue, How they chaunt vnto my Loue, Loue be kind to me, As I haue beene to thee, For thou hast wonne my hart.
Clusters of tapers pierce through the gloom, and the melancholy chaunt of distant choristers echoes softly through the aisles.
The chaunt of gaudily-robed priests rises upward with the pomp and incense of High Mass, and a dark crowd kneels on the cold stones which cover the bones of ancient chivalry.
The organ too is evidently a noble instrument, as we can judge by the fine tones which it emits while accompanying the monotonous chaunt of the priests.
She did not use plain-chaunt for any of those reasons which antiquarians and ecclesiologists urge in its favour now-a-days, but because it was the only music then in vogue.
He has identified the Catholic religion with the cause of plain-chaunt and Gothic architecture, and of all that is, or that he considers to be, best in art.
Niord says: “I was tired of the mountains, Though I was not long there; Only nine nights: The howling of the wolf Was disagreeable to me Accustomed to the chaunt of the swan.
The clocks had long struck midnight, and the sereno had several times raised his dirge-like chaunt in the street outside, before my companion came to me.
And there we sat till the melancholy chaunt of the sereno outside told us it was five o'clock, and, with the blessing of God, a fine morning.
Farewell, dear day, much hath it sooth'd my heart To chauntthy frail memorial.
As He stood in hesitation, He heard the melancholy shriek of the screech-Owl: The wind rattled loudly against the windows of the adjacent Convent, and as the current swept by him, bore with it the faint notes of the chaunt of Choristers.
When He woke, He found himself extended upon the pavement of the Church: It was Illuminated, and the chaunt of Hymns sounded from a distance.
Duke Federigo planned his palace at Urbino just at the moment when the Count of Scandiano had began to chaunt his lays of Roland in the Castle of Ferrara.
The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay: Ah!
Beseech you, let us chaunt the glee that I dish'd up for us three.
Fanaticism, dread of the gods, was their most powerful characteristic, and dismounting from their horses, they entered the door of the chapel whence the chaunt of the opal proceeded.
No musical sound is heard, except the deep-toned voices of the psalm, or plain chaunt singers.
At midnight they are roused from their beds, whither they retire at sunset, to chaunt matins till four in the morning.
Then clear the weeds from off his Grave, And let us chaunt a passing Stave In honour of that Hero brave!
Spring found him viewing the fields that his men had sown, along the forest's edge, and finding in the chaunt of the myriad birds a stirring of memories, a beckoning towards past days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaunt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
