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This man was not a clergyman when he brought me the certificate; he was a man of business, a plain tradesman, a man of the world; he had a colored necktie, and some rather tawdry chains." "Did he speak in a kind of sing-song?" "Not at all; his voice was clear and cutting, only he softened it down once or twice out of what I took for good feeling at the time. He's an impostor and a villain.
"Read," said Major Ranald, and the clerk in a high sing-song voice, regardless of punctuation, read out the charge, conviction and death-warrant of the man formerly calling himself John Robin Ross-Ellison, and now professing and confessing himself to be a Baluchi. Having finished, the clerk smiled as one well pleased with a duty well performed, salaamed and clacked away in his heelless slippers.
I recollect seeing Charles Kingsley when he was President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, and noticed that though in speaking he stammered perceptibly, when he delivered his presidential address he adopted a sort of sing-song tone which more or less concealed his impediment of speech. In fact he half intoned his discourse. I remember, too, meeting Professor Tyndall at Mr.
Old Smead had now his audience before him in good shape, and his next words were of a character to make evident the purpose of this meeting. "Heirs of Anthony Westonhaugh, deceased," he began in a sing-song voice strangely unmusical, "I congratulate you upon your good fortune at being at this especial moment on the inner rather than outer side of your amiable relative's front door.
His speech was slightly sing-song in tone, as it would have been during a prayer or a blessing. "Get the flag then!" raged Farnsworth, in whose veins the heat of liquor was aided by an unreasoning choler. "I cannot," said Father Beret. "Then take the consequences!" Farnsworth lifted his sword, not to thrust, but to strike with its flat side, and down it flashed with a noisy whack.
The deck-hands, men of a mixed Indian and Mexican race, stood ready with long poles, in the bow, to jump overboard, when we struck a bar, and by dint of pushing, and reversing the engine, the boat would swing off. On approaching a shallow place, they would sound with their poles, and in a sing-song high-pitched tone drawl out the number of feet.
Nan played draughts with her uncle and fox and geese and the other kindergarten game with her big cousins. To see Tom, with his eyes screwed up tight and the pencil poised in his blunt, frost-cracked fingers over the slate, while he recited in a base sing-song: "Hick'ry, dick'ry, dock The mouse ran up the clock, The clock struck one, An' down he come Hick'ry, dick'ry, dock," was side-splitting.
A stammerer seldom stutters when he sings. When he sings, he has a full knowledge of the words, and is obliged to keep in time to sing neither too fast nor too slow. Besides, he sings in a different key to his speaking voice. Many professors for the treatment of stammering cure their patients by practising lessons of a sing-song character.
Holliwell had taken the pipe from between his teeth, had straightened up. Her deep voice, the slight swinging of her body to the rhythm she had unconsciously given to her lines, the strange glow in her eyes ... Holliwell wondered why these things, this brief, sing-song recitation, had given a light thrill to the surface of his skin, had sent a tingling to his fingertips.
Some cranberries are sourer than others, you know." "M-m! Ah!" sighed Chet ecstatically. "If there is one thing I like " Lance began to sing-song: "'There was a young woman named Hooker, Who wasn't so much of a looker; But she could build a pie That would knock out your eye! So along came a fellow and took 'er!" "Oh! Oh! We're all running to poetry," groaned Chet. "This will never do."
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