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  • This fragment of a song, sung at a "moving-picture" show in the town hall, and resung many times thereafter by Ezra Payne, John Brown's predecessor as assistant keeper at the lights, recurred to him as he urged the weary Joshua onward.

    The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • During the afternoon they "had a spurt singing," and as the words of hymns were the only ones they knew, the old favourites were sung and resung.

    Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

  • For years it was worked at the Savoy during the days of that theatre's vitality; but the public rehearsal was a real rehearsal, with three rows of stalls left empty for the to-and-fro of people directing the performance, and scenes were acted over again and songs resung.

    Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896

  • And on all this white bloom of April, which the night little by little effaces, the train throws in passing a furrow of joy, the refrain of some old song of Navarre, sung and resung infinitely by these girls and these boys, in the noise of the wheels and of the steam --

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • We remember an old Brahmanic poem brought from the East by Ruckert and sweetly resung in the speech of the West full of encouragement to those who shall die. 52 A man wrapped in slumber calmly reclines on the deck of a ship stranded and parting in the breakers.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • Chemeen was remade in Hindi as Chemeen Lahrein - The great 'maanasa maine varoo' was resung in Hindi - by guess whom, Hariharan!

    DesiPundit Maddy 2010

  • The "La la la" chorus is resung to the tune of the new instrumental, and there's more scratching on the chorus.

    Metal Lungies AaronM 2008

  • 'Reloaded' including classic track 'Jind Mahi' with fresh new music and resung by Labh Janjua,

    The Asian News - RSS feed 2008

  • A high rank must be assigned by the future historians of music to one who distinguished himself in art by a genius for melody so rare, by such graceful and remarkable enlargements of the harmonic tissue; and his triumph will be justly preferred to many of far more extended surface, though the works of such victors may be played and replayed by the greatest number of instruments, and be sung and resung by passing crowds of Prime Donne.

    Life of Chopin Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1877

  • A high rank must be assigned by the future historians of music to one who distinguished himself in art by a genius for melody so rare, by such graceful and remarkable enlargements of the harmonic tissue; and his triumph will be justly preferred to many of far more extended surface, though the works of such victors may be played and replayed by the greatest number of instruments, and be sung and resung by passing crowds of Prime Donne.

    Life of Chopin Franz Liszt 1848

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