chaunt
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“They cherelie chaunt, and rymes at random flung, The fruitful spawn of their rank fantasies; They feed the ears of fools with flattery.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Hark! how the cheerefull birds do chaunt theyr laies And carroll of loves praise.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
The spring returns, the trees are in their bloom, and the forest in its beauty, the birds chaunt, the sea is smooth, the gently-rising tide sounds hollow, the wind is still.
From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans
The whiles some one did chaunt this lovely lay; Ah! see, whoso fayre thing dost fain to see, In springing flower the image of thy day!
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
DELACROIX, lake of blood ill angels haunt, Where ever-green, o'ershadowing woods arise; Under the surly heaven strange fanfares chaunt And pass, like one of Weber's strangled sighs.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
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