intoning

This intoning is always a matter of crescendo and diminuendo in the intensity -- a rising and falling between plain speaking and wild chanting.

God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse Charles Buckles 1960

"I don't call intoning proper solemnity," said Miss Leonora.

The Perpetual Curate 1862

He had introduced a kind of intoning at public meetings.

The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

There are some things in the mode of speaking among the Friends, particularly in their public meetings, which do not strike me agreeably, and to which I think it would take me some time to become accustomed; such as a kind of intoning somewhat similar to the manner in which the church service is performed in cathedrals.

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

Hark! what's that? — the monks intoning in the chapel close at hand?

The Voyage of Magellan 2010

An amply endowed young woman in a spandex outfit was bent over him, slapping his cheek and breathlessly intoning, Are you alright?

Death's Noisy Herald gerard varni 2011

(Hillaire Belloc noted once that, while Jacobite songs were often heard in English homes, he had been warned by the gendarmerie for intoning “Vexilla regis” on a beach in Brittany.)

History 2010

Men in dark pants, white shirts and suspenders hustle around with scripts in hand, intoning into stand-up microphones and creating their own alarming sound effects as they chronicle the fake Martian invasion.

Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse Nelson Pressley 2010

A catharsis of sorts rekindles, intoning archaic dreams

Another View Of A Grand One WhinZa KingSlée 2011

Apart from that, bring on series three and the Crawley girls in flapper dresses intoning: "Carson, fetch the cocaine!"

It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen 2011