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"Singsong" Quotes from Famous Books

... of singsong, so common in reading poetry, as it is a variation of pitch without reference to the sense, is a species ...

— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... "you are looking at the representatives of mankind's only sibling. The noble Ankorbades." Then he recited in a singsong voice: ...

— Unspecialist • Murray F. Yaco

... children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have ...

— The Voice of the City • O. Henry

... let himself into the flat at five-thirty the place was very quiet, except for Annie, humming in a sort of nasal singsong of content in ...

— Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock • Edna Ferber

... said one of the men in a singsong tone. "Tide's just right, and the wind's springing up. We ...

— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn

... to know who makes the inquiry?" returned the Sing-Sing skipper, in the singsong manner in which ordinary folk repeat what ...

— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper

... poetry recited here to-day," he drawled, "put some verses in my mind that I never had till I came here to-day." Everyone present cheered wildly, and he began in a singsong voice: ...

— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders

... chaperon interrupted. "I'm loving much mit Miss Bailey, too," she wailed. "Und I don't know where is she neither." But the pride of learning upheld the others and they chanted in singsong chorus, swaying rhythmically the while from ...

— Little Citizens • Myra Kelly

Words linked to "Singsong" : singalong, pitch contour, singing, modulation, displace, chant, vocalizing, intone, rhythmic, move