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Updated: June 22, 2025
I doubt whether any man ever entered Westminster Abbey and the various cathedrals of Great Britain and I have visited every one of them of any note with a more reverent feeling than that which animated me; but some features of the Anglican service as practised at that time repelled me; above all, I disliked the intoning of the prayers, as I then heard it for the first time.
The songs of the Troubadours were in many cases taken directly from Eastern models. In early Arabian times it was customary for two shepherds to converse in music by intoning responsive phrases on their flutes; and it soon became customary for two minstrels to sing in like manner.
The voice in the dark began intoning a mad litany, line by line, and I and the rest to repeat it. As they did so, they swayed from side to side in the oddest way, and beat their hands upon their knees; and I followed their example. I could have imagined I was already dead and in another world.
"It is not there. Miss Jane." Margaret spoke with a sort of solemn intoning. She recognized what the situation implied, and she, who fitted squarely and entirely into her humble state, was aghast before a hitherto unimagined occurrence. She could not, even with the evidence of her senses against a lady and her mistress's old friend, believe in them.
But when you get there, the reality won't please you at all. There will be the dirty floor, and the bad music, and the little priest intoning through his nose and the scuffling boys, and the abominable pictures and the tawdry altars. Much better stay at home and help me praise the Holy Roman Church from a safe distance!
The Doge revelled in their disputations, yet never was really intimate or affectionate as he was with Jim Galway, who knew not the Pitti, the Prado, nor the Louvre, and could not understand the intoning of Dante in the original as Jack could, thanks to his having been brought up in libraries and galleries. The town, which was not supposed to ask about pasts, could not help puzzling about his.
In a Bâlai, specially erected for the purposes of the feast, a number of priests, and pilgrims, and lĕbai, that class of fictitious religious mendicants, whose members are usually some of the richest men in the villages they inhabit, were seated gravely intoning the Kurân, but stopping to chew betel-nut, and to gossip scandalously, at frequent intervals.
she sang, her open hand extended. A greenfinch new up to the table, flew down to her knee, flew up to her shoulder, flew down to her hand, and, perching on her thumb, began to feed. And she went on with her soft, soft intoning. "This is Perlino, So green, oh, so green, oh. He is the bravest heart, The sweetest singer, of them all.
Hiding the brown and purple distances of the Campagna came pictures of dim, candle-lighted spaces, of a thin face with a setting of black and white priestly garments, and in her ears was the sound of a voice endlessly intoning. It made up a vision of the impossible. She sat there a long, long time, and when she wakened to a consciousness of where she was, it was a whining voice that roused her.
There were many churches where the priest who pronounced the prayer for the king's health interrupted the intoning with his tears, and the people responded with nothing but sobs and cries. The courier, who, on the 19th, brought to Paris the news of his convalescence, was embraced and almost stifled by the people; they kissed his horse, they escorted him in triumph.
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