Silence fell upon the celestial choristers; and the Apostle spoke thus: "Wonder not if thou seest me change colour.

He glanced stealthily at the faces of the friars; they were more full of interest than dread, while the eyes of the little choristers who stood robed for chapel service shone with delight.

The Time; the Places; the proper Accessories and Circumstances; the angelic Choristers; Signification of the Ox and the Ass.

The music of this colored, or rather "amalgamated" choir, directed by a colored chorister, and accompanied by a colored organist, was in good taste.

The front seats were filled by children of various agesthe rear, of adults, rising above these tiny choristers, and softening the shrillness of their notes by the deeper tones of mature age.

At dessert a bevy of pretty girls in classic costume distributed flowers and fruits to the guests, while Greek choruses sung by female choristers alternated with verses admirably recited by Bartel and Reichenberg.

Their appearance reminds one of cathedral choristers.

In 1799, through the influence of my uncle, Michael Kelly, the celebrated singer and composer of that day, I was allowed to become a miniature chorister in her place....

A note, stronger and sweeter than that of any of the native choristers of the grove, swelled upon the air, and floated towards them.

In the wake of the cross there came to view gorgeous ecclesiastics in pairs, and then a robed man walking backwards and gesticulating in the manner of some important, excited official of the Salvation Army; and after this violet robe arrived the scarlet choristers, singing to the beat of his gesture.

The chorus swells; less various, and less sweet The trilling notes, when in those very groves, 70 The feathered choristers salute the spring, And every bush in concert joins; or when The master's hand, in modulated air, Bids the loud organ breathe, and all the powers Of music in one instrument combine, An universal minstrelsy.