| The book became the record of this great tragedy, in which these prophecies take the place of the choric odes in a Greek drama. |
| These were days when the proa went shouting across the empty southern seas to madrigal and choric song. |
| The Exode is that entire part of a tragedy which has no choric song after it. |
| The story is presented by nine choric dancers who, in their dark glasses and black skullcaps, resemble a sinister Gallic mime troupe. |
| The novel's people, communally representative of its theme and the choric agents of its plot, dare not get out of order. |
| In these communal celebrations, a choric dance may have been the first formal element and perhaps for centuries was the principal element. |
