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"Singsong" Quotes from Famous Books

... measured singsong, stopping occasionally to hold the book in a better light and peering at the fine print through his spectacles. And as he read, there was a sudden rustle on one of the back benches. A child had turned, stared, and pulled at its mother's sleeve. ...

— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

... around the ring of lodges announcing in singsong fashion the christening, and inviting everybody to a feast in honor of the event. A real American christening is always a gala occasion, when much savage wealth is distributed among the poor and old people. Winona has only ...

— Indian Child Life • Charles A. Eastman

... damn you," Gore growled at the prisoners in general. A shuffling sound followed the singsong call, and then a "galley boy" of forty years or so, badly crippled by club-feet, shuffled up to the hatch and laboriously let himself down to the platform. The huge bowl of stew he was carrying was far ...

— In the Orbit of Saturn • Roman Frederick Starzl

... harshness &c 410. [Confused sounds], Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert; marrowbones and cleavers. V. be discordant &c adj.; jar &c (sound harshly) 410. Adj. discordant; dissonant, absonant^; out of tune, tuneless; unmusical, untunable^; unmelodious, immelodious^; unharmonious^, inharmonious; singsong; cacophonous; harsh &c ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... the clerk, in his nasal, singsong way, coming forward, "have you anything to say why judgment should not now be pronounced upon you? ...

— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

... of them shouted out to another of their number, who evidently was the local poet of the party. "You makee singsong ob de ...

— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson

... little way, was standing like a statue in the dusk, hands folded in front of him, saying his last prayer of the evening. Beyond, from a bush-covered tent, came the jingle of a telephone and 'the singsong voice of the young Turkish operator relaying messages in German—"Ja!... Ja!... Kaba Tepe... Ousedom Pasha... Morgen frith... Hier Multepe!... ...

— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl

Words linked to "Singsong" : rhythmical, intonation, move, pitch contour, chant, intonate, modulation, intone, cantillate, singing, intoned, vocalizing, rhythmic, displace