psalm-tune

Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on: —a sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the country from which its emigrants came; or named at a pinch from a psalm-tune.

XI. English Traits. Aristocracy 1909

He wouldn't so much as whistle a psalm-tune on Sunday, but he could dispose of more smooth business on week days than an axle-grease factory.

Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904

The story goes that a boat of Her Majesty's ship Wolverine found him kneeling on the kelp, naked as the day he was born, and chanting some psalm-tune or other; light snow was falling at the time.

Lord Jim 1899

My very heart rose when I saw the bull-dog fellows clambering up the breach with their pikes at the trail, and never quavering in their psalm-tune, though the bullets sung around them as thick as bees in the hiving time.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

The story goes that a boat of Her Majesty's ship Wolverine found him kneeling on the kelp, naked as the day he was born, and chanting some psalm-tune or other; light snow was falling at the time.

Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

"Chuck across one of your psalters -- old Wiltshire is the only tune worth singing -- the psalm-tune that would make my blood ebb and flow like the sea when I was a steady chap. I'll find some words to fit en."

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

"Chuck across one of your psalters -- old Wiltshire is the only tune worth singing -- the psalm-tune that would make my blood ebb and flow like the sea when I was a steady chap. I'll find some words to fit en."

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

A young girl in church singing the words of a song to a psalm-tune is ordered to be whipped by her parents.

Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883

Still the New England churches clung to and loved their poor confused psalm-singing as one of their few delights, and whenever a Puritan, even in road or field, heard the distant sound of a psalm-tune he removed his hat and bowed his head in prayer.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

Sand Hook, beside Dominie Welius, the holy psalm-tune leader.

Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877