The Troubadour chaunted his lays of love and war in Spain; and his appeals found a ready way to the heart in Arragon; for of that part of the Peninsula the Provencal was the vernacular dialect.
The march of the monks as they chaunted their solemn litany was in one sense a return of the Roman legions who withdrew at the trumpet-call of Alaric.
A general charge of the Norman foot opened the battle; in front rode the minstrel Taillefer, tossing his sword in the air and catching it again while he chaunted the song of Roland.
In these dark depths the ancient Church took refuge from persecution; there she laid her martyrs, and there, over their tombs, she chaunted hymns of triumph, and held communion with Him for whom they died.
Maria Nuova, and the "Kyrie Eleison" was chaunted a hundred times.
The venerable priest who had attended her when living, came to sprinkle incense over her body; and while thus engaged, he chaunted psalms in a low and solemn voice.
Her romantic history and sad fate are recorded in their songs, and chaunted among their many wild and melancholy ballads, for which, alas!
He appeared to join in the petitions of the Litany which was chaunted by the Bishops.
One of the most remarkable of the popular lays chaunted about the streets of Norwich and Leeds in the time of Charles the Second may still be read on the original broadside.
Some of them composed hymns in the dungeon, and chaunted them on the fatal sledge.
Strains survive Erst chaunted to the lyre of Israel, More touching far than ever poet breathed Amid the Grecian isles, or later times Have heard in Albion, land of every lay.
Every baronial knight had his gay troop of minstrels that accompanied him to the field, and afterwardschaunted in his hall, whether in their own or another's verse, the martial deeds which had renowned his house.
Minstrels played on various musical instruments during dinner, and chaunted or recited their verses and tales afterwards both in the hall, and in the chamber to which the barons and knights retired for amusement.
I then faintly chaunted a fragment of a hymn, and advanced.
These psalms, always chaunted with ardour and wild melody, and borne on the light breezes of the twilight, were often heard at a great distance.
They would have pursued their way across the church-yard, and requested to have a mass chaunted over the dead in the church; but this was denied.
When the cortege had arrived in front of the Isaak's Church, the Emperor dismounted and led the Empress into the edifice, where the Te-Deum laudamus was immediately chaunted by the Singers of the Court.
Chaunted loudly, chaunted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darkened wholly, of the Lady of Shalott.
Mr. Fox, captivated by the vanities of a system founded upon abstract rights, chaunted his expectations in the House of Parliament; and too many of his Friends partook of the illusion.
It was the Prince: he stood at the door, And listened a moment, as we chaunted The evening song.
So noon came, and the voice of the muezzin chaunted the call to prayer from different quarters of the fort, as if no deadly strife were imminent, and the Moslems spread scarves or waist-bands where they stood or sat.
In their other religious festivals also, choruses of fauns and bacchants chaunted songs and held up individuals to public ridicule.
The sun shone, and birds chaunted merrily to the right hand and to the left.
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