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A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHANT
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chant
 v.  utter with a melodious voice; celebrate in song; make melody with the voice
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  As the immediate effect, however, gradually passed away, a low murmur of voices commenced a sort of chant in honor of the dead.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
2  Then, in a wild burst of their chant they sang with united voices the temper of the Mohican's mind.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
3  Even David was not reluctant to lend his ears to the tones of voices so sweet; and long ere the chant was ended, his gaze announced that his soul was enthralled.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
4  In his eyes was a desire to chant a paean.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to chant a Te Deum pontifically.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
6  It was a supernatural chant in an uninhabited house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
7  And she began the same religious chant which had so strongly excited Felton the evening before.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
8  And the pilgrims who had continued their march and their chant in the background, now gathered round the figure of Eliza on her soap box as if to form the audience at a play.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
9  They sang the plaintive chant which follows the play, during which all the dead men rise to their feet in a silent and awful manner, like the ghosts of Napoleon's soldiers in the Midnight Review.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
10  Around it boys and unwedded girls chant hymns and joyfully lay their hand on the rope.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
11  His comrades shout after him the glad battle chant.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
12  A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
13  Here an ancient monastery, whence the solemn chanting of the monks came down to them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
14  Before that time, she knew, a hundred generations of Carols will aspire and go down in tragedy devoid of palls and solemn chanting, the humdrum inevitable tragedy of struggle against inertia.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  Obedient to the sign, the girls raised the bier to the elevation of their heads, and advanced with slow and regulated steps, chanting, as they proceeded, another wailing song in praise of the deceased.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
Example Sentence:
1  They began to chant the hero's deeds after his speech.
2  The chant is certain to be sustained until the International Board announce their decision at their annual meeting in Auckland next April.