[40] A camel-load is about five cantars, and a cantar is a hundred weight.

[40] A camel-load is about five cantars, and a cantar is a hundred weight.

En el momento en que Constanza salió del bosquecillo, sin velo alguno que ocultase á los ojos de su amante los escondidos tesoros de su hermosura, sus compañeras comenzaron nuevamente á cantar estas palabras con una melodia dulcísima: CORO «Genios del aire, habitadores del luminoso éter, venid envueltos en un jirón de niebla plateada.

cantar, to sing, hum, buzz; entre dientes, to hum (a song).

cantar, m., song. cántaro, m., pitcher, water-pitcher.

(more commonly diez y nueve), nineteen. diente, m., tooth; como que echó los s en, he was, as it were, born to (or into); eutre s, between (my) teeth; cantar entre s, to hum (a song).

To my taste her style of singing is far preferable to that of Catalani; there is much more pathos and feeling in the singing of Grassini; it is completely and truly the "cantar che nell'anima si sente."

Cuando me ven, empiezan a cantar.

Oían cantar a los pájaros.

The gloom of the chapel is faintly relieved by the tapers of the sisters; the vaulted roof is just discernible in a pale blue light, rendered terrific by the splendour of the altar blazing with a hundred illuminated torches; while the lofty peals of the deep-toned organ, swell round the echoing cloisters with "Il cantar che nell' anima si sente;" and the "rapt senses are confounded in idolatrous wonder.

It was the song that the poet-minstrel, the friend of Albrecht Dürer, wrote in honor of Luther when the great Reformation broke; and the prima donna, rising to her feet in the stern, and returning the greeting of the nightingale began: "Sorgiam, che spunta il dolce albor, cantar ascolto in mezzo ai fior voluttuoso un usignol spiegando a noi l'amante vol!...

THE TALE OF THE WARRIOR LORD (El cantar de mio Cid) Translated by Merriam Sherwood.

THE TALE OF THE WARRIOR LORD (El cantar de mio Cid) Translated by Merriam Sherwood.

Quella vertù, che già l'ardito Orfeo Mosse a cercar le case di Plutone, Allor che forse lieta gli rendeo La cercata Euridice a condizione, E dal suon vinto dell' arguto legno, E dalla nota della sua canzone, Per forza tira il mio debile ingegno A cantar le tue Iode, o Citerea, Insieme con le forze del tuo regno.

Estoy por cantar de plano.

of astonishment as good gracious *cancel* m. inner door or wooden screen just inside the main entrance; space between the inner door and the outer one (many of the public buildings in the United States have an arrangement similar to the Spanish *cancel*) *candelero* m. candlestick *canónigo* m. canon (of a church) *cantar* sing; * de plano* speak out plainly *Cantarranas (Cantaranas)* literally croaking frogs.

The warlike and adventurous spirit of Northern and Central Spain preferred epic to lyric poetry: and the outcome was the cantar de gesta and the romance, the lyrico-narrative or ballad poem.