chantingly

Updated: May 23, 2025

Sylvia did not answer, every nerve bent on getting Camilla into safety, but a little red-headed boy from the second grade, who could scarcely talk plainly, burst out chantingly, pointing his dirty forefinger at Camilla: "Nigger, nigger, never die, Black face and shiny eye, Curly hair and curly toes That's the way the nigger goes!" There was a loud laugh from the assembled children.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Bent Twig

I think so; she has taken bad plays as willingly as good plays, to turn them to her own purpose, and she has been as triumphant, if not as fine, in bad plays as in good ones. Now her Francesca is lifeless, a melodious image, making meaningless music. She says over the words, cooingly, chantingly, or frantically, as the expression marks, to which she seems to act, demand.

Arthur Symons - Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of Theory