126 Verbs to Use for the Word choruses

Each of us would say, Canopied under world-skies, I, too, would join this chorus of adoring love!

Raising himself from his salute, he heard a pretty little infantile chorus.

One writes in such a book as this not to express oneself but to swell a chorus.

It is usual for Moors, particularly negroes, to sing certain choruses, and thus encourage one another in their work.

Finding the driver took up the chorus in bass, Frances went outside that he might see the words, and most heartily was it sung by all!"

However, the noise would have been drowned in the general tumult, if it had not been for a persistent voice which led the chorus of malignity against Clerambault.

Leaving the servants to take care of the luggage, they strolled along over a carpet of wild-flowers, through winding bridle-paths, where glances of bright water here and there gleamed through the dark pines that were singing their sleepy chorus, with its lulling sound of the sea, and filling the air with their aromatic breath.

To-night, perchance, we shall see his eyes roll as he roars out the chorus of "D'ye ken John Peel?"

And again the boy's delicate voice rung out the ferocious chorus, with something, Lancelot fancied, of fiendish exultation, and every worn face lighted up with a coarse laugh, that indicated no malice but also no mercy.

Officers and Gyppies coaxed and wheedled the stubborn beasts through Julis, but outside the place the animals raised a chorus of protest and went down.

And here again MARGARET betrays her rural habits, by repeating audibly the first response, thus encroaching on the province of the choir-boys, who have now united, and form a fine and powerful chorus, less picturesque perhaps than the Druidical chorus in the first act of Norma, but quite as religious in its effect.

The boy who led sang 'Early in the Morning,' and the other seventeen brought in a chorus of 'Let us think of Jesus.'

Madame Clerambault heard little as usual, and played chorus.

All about us through the forest arose the chorus of night sounds, and afar off through the trees I could catch the glinting of the river.

Its measures are haunting my dreaming; I rise at the breakfast-bell's call To hear the new chambermaid screaming The chorus aloud through the hall.

In case any one was unable to appear in any other fashion, he would enter the choruses.

"Andand" "Andand" began the chorus.

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.

Would that produce the chorus of Handel that made you almost rise and march in majesty?

After supper, a young lady, who was visiting, sung Erse songs, in which lady Raarsa joined, prettily enough, but not gracefully; the young ladies sustained the chorus better.

Now a jackal utters a howl on the bank, as our boat shoots past, and the diabolical noise is echoed from knoll to knoll, and from ridge to ridge, as these incarnate devils of the night join in and prolong the infernal chorus.

Writing plays upon the model of the ancients, by introducing choruses, can be defended with as little force.

A faint honking was blown to them by the wind, now a distant, jangling chorus, now a solitary sound repeated like a call.

And seeing the crisp leavesfor the summer was waningI repeated his phrase, "the summer's coloured mantle," and remembered: "Swarms of bees and chafers, the little musicians of the world A gentle chorus.

We at once set up a chorus of pitiful yells, when a man, who fortunately heard us, came to our rescue with a canoe and towed us ashore.

126 Verbs to Use for the Word  choruses