A rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors.
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Examples for "shanty "
Examples for "shanty "
1 The shanty rocked in the wind like the cradle of a child.
2 From the interior of the shanty behind there came a similar chorus.
3 The answering voice was the voice of the man of the shanty .
4 The Siner home was a three-room shanty about midway in the semicircle.
5 The gnawing still went on behind the old shanty by the river.
1 The chanty - man was a distinguished person whom it was impolitic to ignore.
2 Strike up any sort of sailor's chanty when we're in the restaurant.
3 After paying actual expenses, Mr. Stephen, however, handed the surplus to a chanty .
4 A Japanese tune rises like a sailors' chanty from the band.
5 For a quick pulling chanty we often use this one:
1 Gallowglass was crooning a sea chantey in the château's great hall.
2 "I don't remember," I replied; "it is a common enough deep- sea chantey . "
3 "Limber up and give us a good old deep- sea chantey ! "
4 "Chesapeake Bay sea chanteys - the cassette was in your truck."
1 Why don't you sing a chantey over me, I want to know?
2 Gallowglass was crooning a sea chantey in the château's great hall.
3 Jessie could hear the gay lilt of the chantey that heralded their coming:
4 Young Jerry only was to be seen, sitting on the cabin step and singing the ancient chantey .
5 I struck up the first verse of a sailor chantey as possessing at least the interest of novelty:
6 The voice of the mate, the chantey of the crew heaving at the capstan bars, came to Rhoda subdued:
7 The leader begins something like this, using, perhaps, the air and refrain of an old chantey or college song.
9 For Old Jerry had been a sailor, and had followed the sea till middle life, haunted always by the words of the ringing chantey .
10 He used to sing merrily a song which was a real canal - chantey , one of the several I heard, the words of which ran like this:
11 There were choruses of old river chanteys while the men waited for the sleds.
12 The men's voices lent themselves well to the weird minor strains of the chanteys .
13 And Mr. Kipling's The Last Chantey :
14 "I don't remember," I replied; "it is a common enough deep-sea chantey . "
15 "Did any of those chanteys sound like this..." I hummed the tune.
16 All about them now, the smiths were beating out old chanteys on the ancient anvils and the newer, clashing machines.
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