Chorus as before A song like this may go on indefinitely or until the rhyming powers of the party are exhausted.
If there is some one in the party who can lead in singing, she can use a familiar air with a rousing chorus as a frame upon which to hang impromptu verses, made up of personalities and local hits.
He called me his 'Holy Chorus Girl,' I heard him--raving in his sleep.
The girl started thechorus of a song which he had never heard before, and was not anxious to hear again.
Across the crescendo of the chorus of the hymn the cry of the little boy ran in piteous discord.
Sandpipers trot in and out by troops after the retiring waves, trilling together in a chorus of infinitesimal song.
There was a chorus of voices in the hall, and something about tea and coming in warned both to gather up their looks before Lady Temple had opened the door, and brought in upon them not one foe, but two!
At that instant the Chelton started with a jerk, and there was a chorus of screams.
Then from without the cabin sounded a chorus of cries.
It'll be great," was Merritt's contribution to the general chorus of approval.
After the first chorus of greetings and questions had passed, Mr. Harkness inquired what had delayed them.
As the cow-punchers burst into a loud chorus of admiring yells, wrung from them by the plucky exhibition, Rob took off his hat and waved it three times round his head.
The consternation created in the ranks of Clark Jennings's raiders by the chorus of shouts and yells behind them may be imagined.
The leader of the group was about to insert the key when suddenly upon the intense stillness there broke a sound; and following upon that sound what a chorus of noises!
Out under the trees the peaceful happy sounds of summer life in the yard came to the ears of the minister as nature's chorus of happiness and indifference.
Men who allow their wives to dress like chorus girls.
The chorus broke into “Ah, my porch, my new porch!
At that instant the chorus of Mokroe began singing in the room on the left—a rollicking dance song.
Howland and welcomed by the singing of a large trained chorus of voices.
At Berlin there was another chorus and another exquisite bouquet of flowers for the Duchess.
So far from censuring Euripides on this score, we should be disposed to regard his management of the chorusas a signal proof of his genius, originality and skill.
It has been justly observed that Euripides seldom named a piece from the chorus, unless the chorus bore an important part in the action or the leading action was divided between several persons.
But the chorus was the greatest of difficulties for a poet who was seeking to present drama of romantic tendency in the plastic form consecrated by tradition.
Voices fell out of the chorus one after the other.
Moreover, you'll see that in chorus the sound of your bell will be heard, too, but by itself the old church bells will drown it in their rumble as a fly is drowned in oil.
At that moment a chorus of pops came from the grate, causing much rejoicing or dismay from the various owners of the chestnuts, according to the fate meted out to them by the omens.
He shouted out the chorus exultantly, triumphantly.
At the end of the street they halted, and in some embarrassment Ford raised his voice in the chorus of a song well known in the music-halls.
A good-humored chorus of ejaculatory congratulation broke forth all round the table.
The young lady from the notion counter and her friends began to sing the chorus of "He sut'nly was Good to Me" with quite professional negro accent.
This incident seemed to break the charm that held us silent, and we broke into a chorus of exclamations of praise and wonder as every second some new beauty in the scene before us struck our admiring gaze.
Mostly they paid their tavern bills when the last cup had been drained and the last chorus led.
The frogs were singing vespers in the ditches, the sharp chorus of the cicalas shrilled on all sides.
A band of dancing maidens enter, left, and sing a bridal chorus before the doors of Ninus' chamber) Love and Beauty now are one, No more wandering away!
Again he heard the cheering, once wind like a chorusof mad devils.
The brush crackled and snapped with the movements of the wolf-pack; the continued snarling, whining, yapping, stilled the chorus of the frogs along the sedgy banks.
Already she could see dust rising from the river-brink; and louder now the cries blended in an anguished chorus as she sped down the terrace.
At the close of it he raised his hands and the chorus burst into the chorale from the last scene of "Die Meistersinger.
Again we see that in the chorus and solo of the messengers of peace Wagner found material for good writing of both verse and music.
Public feeling against Wagner still further diminished, and he was able to visit Munich frequently to superintend the rehearsals, which were under the direction of Von Buelow as conductor and Richter as chorus master.
Albert succeeded in securing for him a position as chorus master at ten florins a month.
A chorus of forty men represented the Disciples, and the heavenly voices were consigned to an invisible choir singing in the dome of the building.
The Bayreuth Liederkranz sang the chorus arranged by Wagner for the burial of Weber in Dresden.
In the third act pandemonium reigned, and the thrilling narrative of Tannhaeuser was unheard in the chorus of yells from the auditorium.
The chorus of sailors in the first finale is in a popular, rhythmical, melodic vein and might almost have been written by a Frenchman.
The sprouting staff of the Pope, which has followed him from Rome, is laid upon his dead body, and the solemn chorus of the pilgrims chant the entrance of his purified spirit into its eternal rest.
With the return of the pilgrims' chorus at the end of the drama we meet the last repetition of a thematic idea.
