chaunt

It is a charming picture, and one would like to know more about that "chaunt," that "wild melody."

A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881

"I let you 'chaunt', as you call it, to keep you from swearing."

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

"I let you 'chaunt', as you call it, to keep you from swearing."

The Egoist George Meredith 1868

So she struck the strings and began to chaunt these lines,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The Religious getting up at that Hour, going through the Cloyster to their Church, to chaunt Mattins, they found this young Gentlewoman sprawling in the midst of the Cloyster, almost dead with the Fall: They took her up, and put her into a warm Bed, let her blood, and apply'd all other

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

That chapel, once a religious sanctuary, when the choral hymn ascended in solemn chaunt to the pealing strains of the organ, with fervent devotion, was now degraded into

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

First then for thee we sisters must chaunt our dirge, and then for Achilles when

Rhesus 2008

The birds warbled on the boughs with tones far sweeter than chaunt of Koran and their notes would console a lover whom longings unman.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

First then for thee we sisters must chaunt our dirge, and then for Achilles when

Rhesus 2008

The Religious getting up at that Hour, going through the Cloyster to their Church, to chaunt Mattins, they found this young Gentlewoman sprawling in the midst of the Cloyster, almost dead with the Fall: They took her up, and put her into a warm Bed, let her blood, and apply'd all other

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008