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The Duke of Saxony remained at home, and Barbarossa went on without his aid to meet defeat at Legnano. Giovanni met Stefano by chance in Venice when the Emperor went there to sign the peace treaty. "His armies were doomed from the first," the jester said in his hoarse guttural sing-song. "They were weighted with the souls of the martyred hostages of Crema.
The Musical Coons dissolved after one performance, during which the Captain's brow grew black and the Chaplain turned faint, and an ecstatic ship's company shouted itself hoarse with delirious enjoyment. Thereafter, for a period, the breath of rebuke and disrepute clung to the songsters; but a ship without a sing-song party is like a dog without a tail.
Jack Vance handed him the required article, which happened to be of the kind which fit all watches. The Sixth Form "sap" was very short-sighted, and proceeded to wind up his timepiece, holding it close to his spectacles throughout the operation. "I can't think how it is," he continued, in his sing-song tone, "I'm always losing my key. I've had two new ones already this term.
He struck one and held it first for her and then for himself, his brown hand absolutely steady. Then he turned with a certain resolution and fixed his eyes upon the gleaming horizon. "It was kind of you to come round to the sing-song last night," he said, after a pause. "I hope it wasn't that that made you sleep badly." "I enjoyed it," said Juliet, ignoring the last remark.
His monotonous, sing-song utterance lured Imber to dreaming, and he was dreaming deeply when the man ceased. A voice spoke to him in his own Whitefish tongue, and he roused up, without surprise, to look upon the face of his sister's son, a young man who had wandered away years agone to make his dwelling with the whites. "Thou dost not remember me," he said by way of greeting.
Why does he not sing when I and my two sons come to pray?" And always the Dervish made the same answer in the same sing-song voice: "Let him who found the Nightingale come to the mosque and then the Nightingale will sing."
Then I whispered the nurses to bring cotton and oakum, and little cushions; made them put the cotton and oakum, in small tufts, to my index fingers; and while I crooned my directions in a sing-song lullaby air, I worked in this support, gradually and imperceptibly withdrawing my hands, until I could substitute the little cushions for the force by which they held the muscle in proper position.
It was the sing-song voice used by Father Beret in his sermons and prayers; but something went with it indescribably touching. Farnsworth felt a lump rise in his throat and his eyes were ready to show tears.
They never saw the old fellow without shouting to a sing-song tune that they had made themselves: "Paddy on the Turnpike Couldn't count eleven, Put him on a leather bed, Thought he was in Heaven." Not seeming to hear the children, the old man used to work in silence, gathering the bottles and rags and things and putting them in his bag.
'We will begin tomorrow, and a blessing on thee for showing old feet such a near road. A deep, sing-song Chinese half-chant closed the sentence. Even the priest was impressed, and the headman feared an evil spell: but none could look at the lama's simple, eager face and doubt him long. 'Seest thou my chela? he said, diving into his snuff-gourd with an important sniff.
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