2327 examples of chorus in sentences

And as I leave I hear the chorus of an operetta in the deep voice of Monsieur Caterna.

up went two thousand hands, with one great chorus: "If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise.

As our car came to a halt there rose a chorus of exclamations in all the dialects between Maine and California, and from the door of a near-by cafe came pouring a flood of Americans.

Vocal music might be punctuated by tom toms and primitive wind or stringed instruments, or might swell in solo or chorus without accompaniment.

What a chorus from happy hearts went u

As midnight drew near, it was louder in the streets, and companies of people, some of them singing in chorus, passed by on their way to the Zeil.

He sent a kind note in answer, adding a chorus out of the Walpurgisnacht from his own hand.

They assembled again in the square, and tossing their torches up into the air cast them blazing into a pile; while the flame and black smoke rose in a column into the air, they sang in solemn chorus, the song "Gaudeamus igitur," with which they close all public assemblies.

"There is a chorus in Aristophanes's plays.

[Sudden chorus of derisive animal noises from the Ark, delighting PEOPLE and CHILDREN.]

Her essays lack in the fine sentiment and the fervid eloquence of the chorus-utterances in her novels.

The others crowded in anyhow and said in a dreadful chorus, like Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew," "We want our supper!"

It was these boys who sang it, with fresh, clear voices, joining in a fine chorus, though not far away the soldiers of France were limping through the night from abandoned positions: Entendez-vous, dans les campagnes, Mugir ces féroces soldats?

"Come, chilluns, to bed," said our host, and they were all stacked one over the other on the one corn-shuck couch where a chorus of snores proved they were in the land of dreams.

On Cefalo's return he is met with bitter reproaches, and the act ends with a chorus of fauns and satyrs.

With a little polishing, such as Poliziano's bacchanalian chorus received in revision, the scene would not be unworthy of the time and place of its production.

It borrowed from the classical drama a chorus, on the whole less Greek than Latin, the use of confidants, and the introduction of messengers and descriptive passages.

So too the chorus, though awkward enough from a dramatic point of view and in so far as it fulfils any dramatic purpose, offers a sufficient justification for its existence in the magnificent ode on 'honour,' that rapturous song of the golden age of love, the poetic supremacy of which has never been questioned, whatever may have been thought of its ethical significance.

It is worth while quoting the final chorus in witness of the spirit of half bantering humour in which the whole was conceived even by the serious Tasso, a spirit we unfortunately too often seek in vain among his followers.

To censure an exaggeration of the charm of modesty on the threshold of the seicento, or to object a strained sense of chastity against the author of the golden-age chorus, may indeed seem strange; but, as with Fletcher at a later date, the very extravagance of the paradox may supply us with the key to its solution.

Even the confidants sometimes need confidants in their turn, these being supplied by a conveniently ubiquitous chorus.

43) placed in the mouth of the chorus: Dunque non si dirà donna pudica Se non quella che mai Non fu sollecitata; (IV. in.)

Or again, with the irresistible slyness of the final chorus of the Aminta already quoted compare the sententious lines with which Guarini closed his play:

"Did no one see him go?" There was a chorus of exclamationsa rush to the inner salonto the doorto the street.

"And has given me a pain in my chest for a week," said I, in chorus.

2327 examples of  chorus  in sentences