Quickly it developed and grew into a muffled but hideous chorus of bestial shrieks.

The great Homer himself did not disdain to sing the mighty battle of the frogs and mice; and Aristophanes gave the frogs a most important chorus in one of his comedies; moreover, calling the whole comedy "The Frogs," although he had his choice of title-names among many very notable charactersÆschylus, Euripides, Bacchus, Pluto, Proserpine, and other leaders of society.

The hylas make a delightfully pure and tranquil music after sunset; and coyotes, the little, despised dogs of the wilderness, brave, hardy fellows, looking like withered wisps of hay, bark in chorus for hours.

The Ouzel never sings in chorus with other birds, nor with his kind, but only with the streams.

" Chorus from Every body.

She's singing now in New York for forty a week with a voice that wasn't strong enough to be more than chorus to mine.

To take our extant specimens of Satyr-plays, for instance: in the Cyclops we have Odysseus, the heroic trickster; in the fragmentary Ichneutae of Sophocles we have the Nymph Cyllene, hiding the baby Hermes from the chorus by the most barefaced and pleasant lying; later no doubt there was an entrance of the infant thief himself.

The three listeners shouted the chorus at the top of their voices, pounding the table with their fists by way of a sort of drum accompaniment.

Indeed, all classes joined in the chorus against the fallen Emperor, and attributed to him alone the misfortunes of France.

The remark therefore of the chorus on good or bad news seems to want elevation: Manoah.

A salvo of loud cheers rang out when they started, and this burst into a furious chorus as the well balanced aeroplane presently left the ground to start upward into the air.

The Farwells thought Marcia might like to see her old schoolmates graduate, and the boys had written her that they wanted somebody they could trot around during commencement week who might be trusted to join in the "I knew him when" chorus without being tempted to introduce devastating reminiscences.

In this tragedy the author has taken the liberty of adding several things, and altering others, as thinking the play imperfect: First as to the additions, he has at the end of the chorus after the first act, added threescore verses of his own invention:

King Charles I. This play met with some opposition, because it was reported that the character of Philotas was drawn for the unfortunate earl of Essex, which obliged the author to vindicate himself from this charge, in an apology printed at the end of the play; both this play, and that of Cleopatra, are written after the manner of the ancients, with a chorus between each act.

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

Scarcely knowing that their emotion expressed itself in words, they caught up the Patriarch's answer and echoed it from group to groupfrom gallery to galleryuntil it gathered impetus and rolled like a Hallelujah Chorus through the vast, vaulted chamber.

" And something like "daisy" and "setting me crazy," These lines the dear public would miss Then chuck a "sweetheart" in, and "never to part" in, And end with a chorus like this: O Susan Van Doozen!

The chorus under this arrangement was: I'm glad salvation's free, I'm glad salvation's free, I'm glad salvation's free for all, I'm glad salvation's free.

Moorcroft, Vigne, and others swelled the laudatory chorus until Forster, "having been prepossessed with an opinion of their charms, suffered a sensible disappointment," and even was so rude as to criticise the ladies' legs, which he considered thick!

There were some wonderful choruses along those war-worn roads we traveled.

The cry shook in a wailing chorus across the field: "Alcatraz!"