How To Use chantey In A Sentence
- But then when I searched for individual songs I remembered, I sailed into another kind of semantic fog: there are lots and lots of sea chantey sites and recordings that masked the instance I was looking for. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Sea songs and semantic distance
- No, the march, the work song, the love lyric, the ballad, the sea chantey, the nursery rhyme, the limerick—those are the preeminent forms, and all those have four beats to them. THE ANTHOLOGIST
- Spotlighted on the backbar was a chest of gold coins and the words of a sea chantey: Fifteen men on a dead man's chest! The Cat Who Came To Breakfast
- For Old Jerry had been a sailor, and had followed the sea till middle life, haunted always by the words of the ringing chantey. The Banks of the Sacramento
- At Copley, he also exhibited a continuous 80 slide projection, coupled with an audiotape, showing a nine-person chorus singing sea chanteys with a pianist accompanying them.
- There's nothing finer with a rousing chanteyman leading it and the watch hauling on the braces. Java Head
- She was not looking at the music before her, but up at nothing, while her hands ran over the keyboard, playing an old sailor's "chantey" which Lowell has taught us. Captain Macklin
- As the album winds its way down, his role comes to the fore, the gentleness setting the lullabies and chanteys in a peaceful sea for ‘Canopy of Heaven’ and ‘A Fire Under the Stars’.
- The best moment of this set is the interlude between Scenes 2 and 3 in Act One, with the sound of moonlight on the water, the gentle heaving of the terrifying sea, and sailors below-decks keeping their courage up singing by sea chanteys.
- And whether by happy chance or on some signal dropped down from him or because the chantey was a new one and the crew were glad to show it off, it was chosen. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
