chant

• We wish you could have heard the sound of that strange rhythmical chant which is now forbidden to be sung on Southern plantations,—the psalm of this modern exodus,—which combines the barbaric fire of the Marseillaise with the religious fervor of the old Hebrew prophet Oh, go down, Moses,  Way down into Egypt's land! —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The four Indians bearing the stretcher followed after Suma-theek and in a long single line the remaining Apaches followed, joining Suma-theek in the death chant which is the very soul cry of the desolate Ai! —  Still Jim
• The high and heroic war-chant, the deeds of chivalrous emprise, the tale of unhappy love, the mystic songs of fairy-land,--all have been handed down to us, for centuries, unmutilated and unchanged, in a profusion which is almost marvellous, when we reflect upon the great historic changes and revolutions which have agitated the country. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• Our voices should be used to praise God in chant, and psalm, and hymn, and to offer prayer or thanksgiving. —  The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles
• It was intolerably hot, and the air was so bad as almost to be unbreathable The prisoners kept up a wailing chant--a hopeless prayer for mercy and deliverance. —  Kid Wolf of Texas

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