chaunt
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There is a chaunt in the recitation both of Coleridge and Wordsworth, which acts as a spell upon the hearer, and disarms the judgement.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
"But even a priest must chaunt the mass; eh, what?"
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
The bird that flees through Redpath trees And Gledswood banks each morrow, May chaunt and sing—sweet Leader's haughs And Bonny howms of Yarrow.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
At intervals she sang: but what she sang was more like a low muttered chaunt, than a regular song: at least Bertram understood not a word of it, if words they were that escaped her.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas
The boys Marched to the rhythm of a sing-song chaunt To ease their work.
From Provocations by Bristowe, Sibyl
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