descants

• “The choir director [I bet most grade schools have had this position cut from their budgets long ago] preferred the term descants to soprano, or at least used it as often if not more.”

  Stick Poet Super Hero

• “I was woken by a chorus of the massed donkeys of Arslanbob with descants by the cockerel in the yard.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “Is the old gentleman non compos? what's all this stuff he descants upon so freely, of scholars, and classics, and Homer, and Horace? ”

  Camilla

• “He descants first of all upon the antiquity of love, which is proved by the authority of the poets; secondly upon the benefits which love gives to man.”

  The Symposium

• “Picking them up one by one the owner descants on their beauty, their value (naming an outrageous sum), and his relatives express their sorrow at parting with them.”

  The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

• “The giver, on the contrary, exaggerates its value, descants on its size, length, form, and weight, tells of the exorbitant price he paid for it, reminds the receiver of the difficulty of procuring pigs at this season, and in general manifests his reluctance to part with it.”

  The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

• “The beginning of the invocation is ordinarily in a laudatory strain; he reminds his divinities of his past offerings, descants on the size of the victims offered on previous occasions, and the general expenses of past sacrifices.”

  The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

• “Pointing out his slaves, he descants on them; and goes on to explain how much trouble he had to get them; he could not value them for less than P80 apiece.”

  The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

• “She was more clear-sighted where the work of her fellow-scribes was concerned, and in a letter written about this time, she descants upon the dearth of good literature in a somewhat disillusioned vein.”

  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

• “He paints history, rather than descants on it; he throws the colorings of a mind, unconsciously poetic, over all he describes.”

  Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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