chaunting

We waited in a great gallery with a great crowd of people (three-fourths of them English) for an hour or so, while they were chaunting the Miserere, in the Sistine chapel again.

Pictures from Italy 2007

The coachman stops abruptly, and uncovers, as a van comes slowly by, preceded by a man who bears a large cross; by a torch-bearer; and a priest: the latter chaunting as he goes.

Pictures from Italy 2007

These people have a miserable appearance, and (as usual) are densely ignorant, and all beg, while the monks are chaunting in the chapel.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Hanging in the doorway of the chapel, was a heavy curtain, and this curtain, some twenty people nearest to it, in their anxiety to hear the chaunting of the

Pictures from Italy 2007

Organs, and did sound as that they made a strange and utter distant music beyond death; and there to go alway a rolling chaunting, as that multitudes did sing beyond far mountains, and the sound to be somewhiles as a far-blowing wind, low in the Deep; and again to come clear, and to be that great olden melody of the Song of

The Night Land 2007

Meanwhile, the chaunting was very monotonous and dreary.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Hear the pawls a-ranting: with the bearded men a-chaunting;

The Ghost Pirates 2007

All in a fine oate pipe these sweete songs lustilie chaunting:

Poems and Fragments 2006

It was already quite dark within, only a little fire of cocoa-shell blazed in the midst and showed us four servants; the chief was in his chapel, whence we heard the sound of chaunting.

Vailima Letters 2005

Old Milne was chaunting with the saints, as we may hope, and cared little for the company about his grave; but I confess the spectacle had an ugly side for me; and I was glad to step forward and raise my eyes to where the Castle and the roofs of the Old Town, and the spire of the Assembly Hall, stood deployed against the sky with the colourless precision of engraving.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005