psalm-tunes

She had not settled as yet; on the contrary, she had wrote out by the last mail for twelve new sets of waggon harness, and an organ that should play fourteen specified psalm-tunes: which articles George dutifully ordered.

The Virginians 2006

That very week he sent for a barrel-organ that would play two-and-twenty new psalm-tunes, so exact and particular that, however sinful inclined you was, you could play nothing but psalm-tunes whatsomever.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

The old psalm-tunes have many a wail among them, and the words —

Adam Bede 2004

They always wound up with singing, and it was very pleasing to hear many of our old psalm-tunes in these remote mountains, sung with Malay words.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Look at this broad-shouldered man with the bare muscular arms, and the thick, firm, black hair tossed about like trodden meadow-grass whenever he takes off his paper cap, and with the strong barytone voice bursting every now and then into loud and solemn psalm-tunes, as if seeking an outlet for superfluous strength, yet presently checking himself, apparently crossed by some thought which jars with the singing.

Adam Bede 2004

How Creamer's paternal relative extricated himself from his precarious position will never be known, as, at this juncture, Ben and La Salle, respectively, weary of playing a limited _repertoire_ of psalm-tunes on the concertina, and reading the musty records of a long-forgotten

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

There is to us more of touching pathos, heart-thrilling expression, in some of the old psalm-tunes, feelingly played, than in a whole batch of modernisms.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

It would hev been a bad thing if Mr. McNicol waz dead, for he will be verra good at pentin a door, and he haz between fifteen pounds and ten pounds in the bank at Stornoway, and four cows too and a cart, and he is a ferra religious man, and has great skill o 'the psalm-tunes, and he toesna get trunk now more as twice or as three times in the two weeks.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

Their rendition of psalm-tunes reminds me of A. K.H.B.'s story regarding the lonely Italian, who, passing the Iron Church in

The Boer in Peace and War Arthur M. Mann

His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm-tunes; and the good people of Sleepy-Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, "in linked sweetness long drawn out," floating from the distant hill or along the dusky road.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker