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  • Like more God fearing and into Cowboys and Injuns and roundin 'up folk and terrorizing 'em for poops and giggles -- and more into the ol' Bible reading and choiring -- and boozing it up time to time, although he quit the liquor -- and you, quit being so Blackity on me, Benson.

    Wajahat Ali: The 2003 Colin Powell: A Politically Incorrect [But Honest!] Satire About Bush's First Administration 2008

  • Already I saw the thick-planted trees which framed this tremulous and rippled glass, when, choiring out of a glade to the right, broke such a sound as I thought might be heard if Heaven were to open — such a sound, perhaps, as was heard above the plain of Bethlehem, on the night of glad tidings.

    Villette 2003

  • There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubins.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Sometimes he writes about them: His choiring riffs are always inquiring, you might say, into the realm of angelic ecstasy, realms evoked in dreamy images of floating, flying, free falling, driving, cruising.

    Tom Petty and Tom Frank: Two Geniuses of Pop Culture 2000

  • He cast an irritated eye upward, where Riolla stood fanning herself in the humid heat and listening to the cicadas choiring in the pines.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • He cast an irritated eye upward, where Riolla stood fanning herself in the humid heat and listening to the cicadas choiring in the pines.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • And with the angels choiring above us, we shook hands, and I marched out, and bolted for the lavatory.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • And with the angels choiring above us, we shook hands, and I marched out, and bolted for the lavatory.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • And with the angels choiring above us, we shook hands, and I marched out, and bolted for the lavatory.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • In this choiring, the soul looks upon the wellspring of Life, wellspring also of Intellect, beginning of Being, fount of Good, root of Soul.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

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