chaunt

Historical Examples of chaunt

• I answered, 'That is well,' and began to chaunt the song of death.

  Atala

  Franois Auguste de Chateaubriand

• Chaunt then till I go to sleep, and if I wake when you stop, you 'll have this at your head.

  Doctor Birch and His Young Friends

  M. A. Titmarsh

• I wonder whether we could find some old mariner, who could give us a chaunt from Tasso?

  A Love Story

  A Bushman

• And then, above the rain storm that beat loudly on the corrugated iron, I heard the sound of a chaunt.

  London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

  Winston Spencer Churchill

• As soon as the parties are formed, all sit down on the ground, and begin to chaunt prayers in a slow and subdued tone.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 437, March 1852

  Various