chansonette
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chansonettes
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He found the instrument a good deal out of tune; but began, after a minute's pause, a forgotten chansonette, from "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge."
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
She laughed and now John knew that it was she whom he had heard singing the chansonette in that low murmuring tone.
From The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
Previously, however, in case any of the ladies should like something sentimental, we beg leave to present them with as nice a little chansonette as ever was transcribed into an album.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
Maryette, apparently unconscious of his presence, continued to soap and scrub and slap her wash, singing in her clear, untrained voice of a child the chansonette she had made that morning.
From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
She laughed and hummed a chansonette and filled Raggles's shoes with ice-cold water.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
He reached the parlor window just too late to hear the last of a group of Spanish chansonettes rendered in the original tongue by Miss Netta Podger, who had spent the summer abroad.
From Sube Cane by Partridge, Edward Bellamy
In the intervals of such planning Gabrielle showed the new cousin her favourite haunts in the garden and orchard, whilst he taught her charming chansonettes to sing to the accompaniment of her guitar.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred
Her fame as a composer rests on a number of attractive romances and chansonettes, of which an extensive collection was published in Paris.
From Woman's Work in Music by Elson, Arthur
Amélie Perronet has won laurels in the same field, and has written some popular chansonettes.
From Woman's Work in Music by Elson, Arthur
Besides the question was mainly in this, that that history of the baron and the famous singer of chansonettes did not concern her in any way.
From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah
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