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Which Tells How One Who Did Not Know Set Himself Up As a "Chanty"
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
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A line from “The First Chanty” flashed into his consciousness — “Hearing her laugh in the gloom greatly I loved her.”
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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Emily just finished the Sea Chanty scarf, and it is stunning.
Places You Haunt stringmonkey 2009
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Say the 'Song of the Sword,' or the 'Anchor Chanty.'
CHAPTER 25 2010
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He rounded past Gillian Square with its empty gallows and cut through Chanty Row with its tanners and dye works.
Orbit Books Free Sample SciFi Fantasy Book: The Future Is Now 30 | SciFi UK Review 2005
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"The Chanty Ball," coming out from time to time, made the world suppose that Lady Byron was one of those people, satirized in all literatures, who violate domestic duty, and make up for it by philanthropic effort and display.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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One woman won my heart by her subtle appreciation of “The Dipsy Chanty.”
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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And so I feel safe in saying that if any man were so good and perfect an animal that he had the hound's sense of smell, the cat's eyesight, the rabbit's sense of hearing, the horse's sense of taste, and the homing pigeon's “locality,” he would not be one whit better prepared to appreciate Kipling's “Dipsy Chanty,” and not a hair's breadth nearer a point where he could write a poem equal to it.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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A line from "The First Chanty" flashed into his consciousness --
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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And so I feel safe in saying that if any man were so good and perfect an animal that he had the hound's sense of smell, the cat's eyesight, the rabbit's sense of hearing, the horse's sense of taste, and the homing pigeon's "locality," he would not be one whit better prepared to appreciate Kipling's "Dipsy Chanty," and not a hair's breadth nearer a point where he could write a poem equal to it.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Elbert Hubbard 1885
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