intoning

• “This intoning is always a matter of crescendo and diminuendo in the intensity -- a rising and falling between plain speaking and wild chanting.”

  God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

• “I don't call intoning proper solemnity," said Miss Leonora.”

  The Perpetual Curate

• “He had introduced a kind of intoning at public meetings.”

  The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut

• “There are some things in the mode of speaking among the Friends, particularly in their public meetings, which do not strike me agreeably, and to which I think it would take me some time to become accustomed; such as a kind of intoning somewhat similar to the manner in which the church service is performed in cathedrals.”

  Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2

• “(Hillaire Belloc noted once that, while Jacobite songs were often heard in English homes, he had been warned by the gendarmerie for intoning “Vexilla regis” on a beach in Brittany.)”

  History

• “A catharsis of sorts rekindles, intoning archaic dreams”

  Fictionaut: Another View Of A Grand One

• “Apart from that, bring on series three and the Crawley girls in flapper dresses intoning: "Carson, fetch the cocaine!”

  The Guardian: It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen

• “Hark! what's that? — the monks intoning in the chapel close at hand?”

  The Voyage of Magellan

• “An amply endowed young woman in a spandex outfit was bent over him, slapping his cheek and breathlessly intoning, Are you alright?”

  Fictionaut: Death's Noisy Herald

• “Men in dark pants, white shirts and suspenders hustle around with scripts in hand, intoning into stand-up microphones and creating their own alarming sound effects as they chronicle the fake Martian invasion.”

  The Washington Post: Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse

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