chaunted

And so, as his mother drew him within the doors, his arm round her waist, and the children clung to his cloak, to his knees, or sprung up to claim his kiss, the procession set up a kind of chaunted shout, and left the warrior in his home.

Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

They thought I was possessed45 and one of them began reciting exorcisms in my ear; nor did they cease to comfort her and beseech her to sing, till she tuned the lute again and chaunted these couplets twain,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Camilla saw of him was his presence in the reading desk when he chaunted the cathedral service as priest-vicar on the Sunday.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

Sometimes the Castle rung with oaths and execrations: A Moment after She repeated her Paternoster: Now She howled out the most horrible blasphemies, and then chaunted De Profundis, as orderly as if still in the Choir.

The Monk 2004

And when the Spanish Sailor chaunted some well-known air as He past my window, tears filled my eyes while I thought upon my native land.

The Monk 2004

Conscious that among those who chaunted the praises of their God so sweetly, there were some who cloaked with devotion the foulest sins, their hymns inspired him with detestation at their Hypocrisy.

The Monk 2004

After the feast they chaunted meles in praise of Mr. Rice, and Mrs. Rice played to them on her piano, an instrument which they had not seen before, and sang songs to them in Hawaiian.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Suddenly Matilda changed the strain: With an hand bold and rapid She struck a few loud martial chords, and then chaunted the following Ballad to an air at once simple and melodious.

The Monk 2004

Mohammed chaunted vociferously, and quoted bad Hindustani and worse

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

If that were unity, then in consistency you are bound to demand that in God's world there shall be but one colour instead of the manifold harmony and accordance of which this universe is full; that there should be but one chaunted note -- the one which we conceive most beautiful.

Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson