hymn-and-tune

Updated: June 14, 2025

We feared at first that there might be some levity in this performance, and that the unrestrained spirit of the excursion was working itself off in social and convivial songs. But it was not so. The singers were provided with hymn-and-tune books, and what they sang they rendered in long meter and with a most doleful earnestness.

Charles Dudley Warner - The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

We feared at first that there might be some levity in this performance, and that the unrestrained spirit of the excursion was working itself off in social and convivial songs. But it was not so. The singers were provided with hymn-and-tune books, and what they sang they rendered in long meter and with a most doleful earnestness.

Charles Dudley Warner - The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1

We feared at first that there might be some levity in this performance, and that the unrestrained spirit of the excursion was working itself off in social and convivial songs. But it was not so. The singers were provided with hymn-and-tune books, and what they sang they rendered in long meter and with a most doleful earnestness.

Charles Dudley Warner - Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing