chaunt
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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 Thomas De Quincey
Four of the becchini hoist it on their shoulders, the frati break forth into their hoarse chaunt, and the procession sets out for the church.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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 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 J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Chorus hymeneal,7 Or triumphal chaunt, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt— A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
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