“A high tide cradled the boats, sweetly rockabyebabying each vessel, causing a hymn, like a melodic chant, of chimes, ropes, and bells along the docks.”

“The first act of the epic started with an unusually large number of chantors rhythmically striking gourd drums and chanting an ancient chant.”

“The crowd on the sidewalk far below had grown to immense proportions, and Wiley could hear the echoing chant of their mantra bouncing off the surrounding buildings.”

“The piccolo oboe or musette used to be a bagpipe chanter and was very popular at the time of Marie-Antoinette at the French Court in Versailles.”

“The other players gravitated towards us because Jimmy was such a great chanter and a great comic.”

“She is looking for a new reed for her chanter, a pipe with finger holes that the musician uses to produce the melody.”

“The warehouse, which includes a watermill and a chantry chapel, won the grant under the Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme.”

“The village is named after St Wrw, whose remains are said to be buried in the chantry chapel in the churchyard.”

“At the same time, a chantry was established, served by five priests, who soon afterwards assumed full control of the church.”

“Thee, chantress, oft the woods among / I woo, to hear thy even song.”

“Tamut lived in Thebes around 900BC and had a top job as a temple singer, or chantress, of the god Amun.”

“If she is delighted with the chants, Honeyman is delighted with the chantress and her mamma.”

“During the meditation session, the participants engaged in chanting to reach a state of tranquility.”

“They had a clear view of the chanters, now standing and holding hands in a serpentine human chain.”

“And they reported to me that many of the chanters, to this day, who recite these Vedic or Sanskrit hymns, don't know what they're saying!”

“The ground shook more violently, dancers and chanters stopped, not able to go on.”

“The Dissolution of Colleges Act suppressed thousands of chantries, and the Sacrament Act restored communion in both kinds.”

“But the dissolution of the chantries, which included almost all non-educational collegiate churches, was even more destructive in this respect.”

“The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries.”