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Hancock has chanted for his band, for a new agent, for a wider audience, for higher fees.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the owner of this object has chanted for a few moments in an almost inaudible manner the beads begin to roll from side to side as if animated.

From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Hoffman, Walter James

Victor Hugo is the god of his idolatry, and he has chanted his praise in prose and verse, in "ode and elegy and sonnet."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

As since the skald has chanted in Ha'vama'l, So passed these sayings pithy through generations; And still from graves they whisper 'mid northern nations.

From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon

Many a one, on many a day, the minstrel has chanted to my ear.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de