Another bell rang, too, in tilted singsong from a pulley operating somewhere in the catacomb rear of this lambent vale of things and things and things.
Miss Barnet held backward, a little singsong note of appeal running through her voice.
He heard occasional voices in the dark, curses from the men and the Irish singsong of women, but no one in the indenture compound saw or heard him pass.
The other men hovered back to watch as he launched a violent dance, slashing the air with the blade while intoning a singsong chant in a voice that seemed to emanate from another world.
The men were moving beside her now, intoning their singsong chant.
It is usually read with a peculiar singsong chant, and the reading of argumentative passages is accompanied by a gesture with the thumb.
I was desirous of finding out whether the whole household could sing, so I ordered a drink; a boy near at hand instantly repeated my order in a singsong voice fully as shrill, and whichever one you accosted did the same.
For a moment or two the clamour subsided a little, and during that moment or two one's ears once more became laved with the sweet singsong of the river.
But suddenly I heard the ex-soldier exclaim in drunken, singsong accents which came from the very centre of the tumult: "Hi, do you answer me!
He speaks to me, and though I am quite familiar with the singsong accent of the North, I discover that he is singing.
But as the door was closed and barred behind me, their voices broke forth in a chatter of singsong tones that revealed the excitement they had repressed to the eye.
The natives repeat their lessons, orders received, or scraps of ancient song, or extemporize in this monotonous singsong tone for hours together, and in perfect accord.
Footnote 55: Of Hawaiians at prayer Dibble says: "The people were in the habit of praying every morning to the gods, clapping their hands as they muttered a set form of words in a singsong voice.
The singsong of the river pouring through the bridges, filled his ears.
Her voice took on suddenly its usual sleek singsong tone.
From all directions came the yelp of anti-aircraft guns, and overhead unperturbed continued the leisurely singsong of the motors.
The nearest motor stopped its singsong roar, making the night seem deathly silent.
Swearing aloud in a whining singsong voice, he strode off through the woods with his eyes on the ground.
And from the ditches came the singsong shrilling of toads.
He fought against the desire to groan, but at last he gave in and lay lost in the monotonous singsongof his groans.
His dignifiedsingsong seemed to confirm my interlocutor's characterization of him "Perhaps you will ask me how his son-in-law takes it all?
She spoke with deep, solemn earnestness, somewhat in the singsong of a woman reading the Yiddish Commentary on the Five Books of Moses or wailing over a grave.
Being absolutely illiterate, she would murmur meaningless words, in the singsong of a prayer, pretending to herself that she was performing her devotions.
His singsong lent peculiar charm to the pages that we read in duet.
Meanwhile the singsong became an angry squawking as if in protest.
A crackling of noise with a singsong rhythm, the volume of which, low at first, arose to a drone filled the cabin.
She commenced calling in a low singsong voice that was half purr.
Presently the thin wavering voice broke the stillness, repeating in a singsong drone the words which for countless ages had sealed the doom of numberless victims.
No-o," said Jimmie Dale, in a queer singsongsort of way, and his head seemed to spin dizzily around.
In Jimmie Dale's brain the words began to reiterate themselves in a singsong fashion: "It was Stace Morse.
The words had formed themselves into a sort of singsong refrain that, for the last few days, had been running through his head.
They're going to have a singsong there, or something of the sort.
Besides, this singsong of the boys sounds suggestive to me.
Receiving no answer but the young fellow's singsong "Ne compr'ney" and a sullen grunt from the older savage, the boy made another attempt.
Without comment upon the reply, Blaise went on in his low, musical voice with its slightly singsong drawl.
They were jabbering their outlandish tongue up and down the singsong scale as if here before them, sitting on the floor, were a new species of being, newly discovered and strange beyond imagination.
I know I was delirious for a long time; things seemed very hazy--a confused coming and going of the natives and the jabbering of their singsong voices.
More words of Chinese like pebbles rattling over stones and falling into water flowed from the singsong lips of Chuan Kai.
He exclaimed sharply in his singsong language and stepped toward them in a manner that had only one meaning,--a threat of violence.
Then in a low singsongmurmur she told them about Moscow, about her own life, how she had been a servant in furnished lodgings.
To be more impressive the sexton put his finger to his forehead, closed his left eye, and said in a singsong voice: "Oh, the madness!
Meanwhile there came from the deck the singsong of men heaving up the anchor.
And there was so much kindliness and simplicity in his singsong voice that Pierre tried to reply, but his jaw trembled and he felt tears rising to his eyes.
The teacher, in a singsong voice, reads a sentence which the boys shout after him.
Then another sentence is read, which the pupils likewise shout in a singsong voice, while their bodies sway to and fro.
His quick ears caught and translated it--it was the dance of death that preceded a sacrifice, and the singsong ritual of the high priestess.
When the Foanna did make answer it came in the singsong of chanted words.
He surfaced again and this time he heard not a thunder roll but the singsongchanting of the Foanna.
