psalm-singing

White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church.

Local Democracy Laban 2005

White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church.

Archive 2005-06-26 Laban 2005

Kew remain among a pack of psalm-singing old women and parsons with his mother!

The Newcomes 2006

You know what sort of lodgings she would get there among psalm-singing greengrocers who would tell her of her misfortune every day of her life!

Dr. Wortle's school 2004

“Pshaw!” said the young Cornet, “what signifies strong ground, when it is only held by a crew of canting, psalm-singing old women?”

Old Mortality 2004

She is more attracted to the young handsome, psalm-singing Captain Cummings.

Archive 2004-12-01 Mae West NYC 2004

She is more attracted to the young handsome, psalm-singing Captain Cummings.

Mae: the Gay 90s on the Bowery Mae West NYC 2004

It was he whose presence had been signaled from afar by the monotonous concert of voices, so like the psalm-singing of some church choir.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

Clemens often allowed his fancy to play with the idea of the orthodox heaven, its curiosities of architecture, and its employments of continuous prayer, psalm-singing, and harpistry.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

A battalion of trained infantry with full fighting equipment might have been of some service, but a company of ceremonial troops was about as much use to the Viscount Wellington as a choir of psalm-singing eunuchs.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995