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  • Still taking shots, she is egged on by the drunken chantings of the crowd.

    Yiddle Mitn Fiddle, Poland 2010

  • Still taking shots, she is egged on by the drunken chantings of the crowd.

    Yiddle Mitn Fiddle, Poland 2010

  • As you read this -- all over the world, beginning in the wee hours of the morning in the South Pacific -- prayer vigils, peace marches, ecumenical gatherings, group chantings and all forms of individual meditation accompany this hearing.

    Harvey Wasserman: Today We All Stand Before Leonard Peltier's Parole Board 2009

  • The crowd responded with chantings of "yes we can."

    Laura J. Mansfield: Clinton's Philadelphia Primary-Eve Rally 2008

  • Danube, from Ulm unto Belgrade, let him be devoutly burned amidst chantings of the ‘Miserere.’

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Nor is the scene silent: strains more sweet than those that lull Venus to her balmy rest, more inspiring than the song of Tiresias which awoke Alexander to the deed of ruin, more solemn than the chantings of St. Cecilia, float along the waves and mingle with the lagging breeze, which ruffles not the lake.

    The Mourner 2002

  • As for what Constable took to be the Koranic chantings of the muezzin, Arabic speakers could tell that these were actually urgent appeals for ambulances and calls on the local population to rise up and fight the Americans.

    Unfit to Print? Massing, Michael 2004

  • During the evening and through a part of the night, he heard festive chantings, the reverberations of a kind of drum, and a clatter of old iron, which were very sweet, no doubt, to African ears.

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • Men whispered of drums beating far up in the dreaming hills, of fires glowing in the darkness, and strange chantings borne on the winds, chantings and rituals forgotten centuries ago except as meaningless formulas mumbled beside mountain hearths in villages whose inhabitants differed strangely from the people of the valleys.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Men whispered of drums beating far up in the dreaming hills, of fires glowing in the darkness, and strange chantings borne on the winds, chantings and rituals forgotten centuries ago except as meaningless formulas mumbled beside mountain hearths in villages whose inhabitants differed strangely from the people of the valleys.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

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