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Sentences starting with singing

Singing hymns and waving palm branches through all eternity is pretty when you hear about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable time as a body could contrive. [5]
Singing too, riloo, riloo, riloo, Ri-too, riloo, rilay - - - e, She loved her husband dear-i-lee, But another man twyste as wed'l. [5]
Singing certainly lightens pain, and I have been deprived of the comforter long enough. [10]
Singing mice have often been mentioned and exhibited, but imposture has commonly been suspected. [1]
Singing in his head was the famous example of the eviction of Babcock from the store, --the only time that the Colonel's bullet had gone wide. [9]
Singing a rhythmical dancing-tune, with the upper portion of the body bent forward, and executing dainty steps with their feet, they circled faster and faster around the furious house-keeper. [10]

Sentences ending with singing

To be sure, you needn't go to Italy to hear fine singing. [10]
Why, ma, they were singing! [5]
With what edification we, too, listened to the old Minorite whom we picked up by the wayside, at the tavern where we usually found pleasure in nothing but drinking, gambling, shouting, and singing! [10]
On board there was whispering, and now and again singing. [10]
Her musical talent was considerable, and she devoted every leisure hour to playing on stringed instruments and singing. [10]
The young man turned hastily, noticed that he was in the room overlooking the court-yard, and said, eagerly: I was down below just before twilight, to look at my new quarters, and heard singing from this room, and such singing! [10]
Thence he would try to take her to the minister, who had by no means forgotten her superb singing. [10]
This was done to strengthen the courtiers and the citizens of Ratisbon in the belief that Barbara owed his favour solely to her singing. [10]
You have learnt to sing, and there is no better school for a woman's soul than music and singing. [10]
If she desired to place him under the deepest obligations, she would join them there and adorn the festival with her singing. [10]

Short sentences using singing

The singing was strictly congregational. [4]
How she is singing today! [2]
The farthest star seemed singing. [11]
It is singing, isn't it? [11]
And we had congregational singing. [4]
Somebody's been singing around here. [5]
Hear him singing! [6]
They are singing. [5]
Now he's singing! [12]
The singing ceased. [11]

Sentences containing singing two or more times

The world seemed to be conspiring against him: the chorus of Fate was singing behind the scenes, singing of the happiness of others in sardonic comment on his own final unhappiness. [11]
Besides, we wanted congregational singing, and if we hired a choir, and hung it up there under the roof, like a cage of birds, we should not have congregational singing. [4]
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing, is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. [4]

More example sentences with the word singing in them

I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
These were the words he was singing as Sergeant Tom rode towards the tavern: "The hot blood leaps in his quivering breast Voila! [11]
For thee her wooing hour has passed, The singing birds have flown, And winter comes with icy blast To chill thy buds unblown. [6]
Tipsy and perspiring, with dim eyes and wide-open mouths, they were all laboriously singing some song or other. [2]
The sighing wintry winds complain, The singing bird has flown, --Hark! [6]
The Oxbow Invincibles will march to victory, singing your songs . [6]
Then, after a whispered word to the accompanist she began singing Gounod's memorable song, "There is a Green Hill Far Away. [11]
And for a while there was no sound save that of the singing of the frogs in the distant marsh. [9]
It was open when Dyck first saw it, because she was singing little bits of wild lyrics of the hills, little tragedies of Celtic life--just bursts of the Celtic soul, as it were, cheerful yet sad, buoyant and passionate, eager yet melancholy. [11]
The king himself went to bed in the Fort that night, Pierre and his bodyguard--by name Noel, Little Babiche, Corvette, Jose, and Parfaite --its only occupants, singing joyfully: "Did yees iver hear tell o' Long Barney, That come from the groves o' Killarney? [11]
Reaching the shore, we marched together, I singing the refrain of an old French song as we went, En roulant, ma boule roulant, En roulant, ma boule so attracting the attention of the Indians. [11]
In the evening we had music; the professor playing on the piano, his two daughters, Mrs. Conybeare and her unmarried sister, singing, and a young lady playing the violin. [6]
The rushing of water and singing of birds filled their ears. [13]
Not a sound was to be heard but the groans of the wrestlers and the singing of the nightingales in the grove of the Altis. [10]
Always, always she was singing till the time when my father became a rebel. [11]
But Pretty Pierre was singing softly to himself in the room at Pardon's Drive: "Three good friends with the wine at night Vive la compagnie! [11]
So an edict was sent forth commanding all persons who owned singing creatures to bring them to the great hall of the palace in the morning of the first day of the new year. [5]
One day I was permitted to listen to the singing of Emmy La Gruas, and the next to the peerless Schroder-Devrient. [10]
After all, it was not strange that some one should be singing in that deepest wood beyond. [11]
But when I was listening to the hymn to the Virgin yesterday, it seemed as if an angel from heaven was singing from her lips. [10]
Its narrow doorway was besieged by a crowd, for within the first of the rock-chambers of which it consisted, a harper was singing a dirge for the long-since buried prophet, his wife and his sister. [10]
In one corner was a fiddler, and on the veille, flourished for the occasion with satinettes and fern, sat two centeniers and the prevot, singing an old song in the patois of three parishes. [11]
This act of war in fancy, dress, with its two steps forward and one back, and the singing of a song, is one of the most fatal to the masculine peace of mind in the whole history of carnage. [4]
The multitude gave vent to their impatience by shouting, singing, and quarrelling; but the priests and magnates on the steps preserved a dignified and solemn silence. [10]
Wolf's gift, the velvet robe with the marten border, would have been too heavy and oppressive for singing, and, besides, was not yet finished. [10]
Melissa drew her veil closer and clung more tightly to her brother, for a sound of singing and wild cries, which she had heard behind her for some time, was now coming closer. [10]
Beetles stridulate under various emotions, in the same manner as birds use their voices for many purposes besides singing to their mates. [1]
These caught it up, singing it as they marched on. [11]
It was taken up again by other companies, and by the time Iberville presented himself to Count Frontenac, not long after, there was hardly a citizen, soldier, or woodsman, but was singing it. [11]
But then Kitty Tynan was as fond of singing as a canary, and relieved her feelings constantly by this virtuous and becoming means, with her good contralto voice. [11]
I believe the turbulent waves Swallow the last shipper and boat; She with her singing craves All to visit her magic moat. [5]
I said-- 'Every trip, down and up, the leadsmen are singing through that tangled place for three-quarters of an hour on a stretch. [5]
His eyes wandered to the raft where the men were singing, and he remembered the threat made: that if he came again to the Cote Dorion he "would get what for! [11]
And I want to thank you for your appreciation of her singing, which is, by-the-way, hereditary. [5]
Then she spelled to Pierre this: "It is singing to me. [11]
When he came to himself, a linnet was singing. [5]
The bird listened to her singing, bending his little head with its waving plumes, wisely and inquisitively from side to side, and flew away directly she ceased. [10]
It was strange to hear in that lonely waste, a handful of men, bent on a deadly task, singing a low chant of penitence--a Kyrie eleison. [11]
Unfortunately, he was to atone only too speedily for this offence against medical advice, for his heated blood increased the twinges of the gout to such a degree that he was compelled to relinquish his desire to listen to the exquisite singing longer. [10]
She had wished to arouse his attention, his approval, his delight in her singing. [10]
He was evidently tipsy, and was singing a French song in a hoarse broken voice, with an arm thrown round the nearest soldier. [2]
For the first time the officer's modest house echoed with the singing of its mistress. [10]
It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs. [11]
Give me a tight frigate that leaves a singing wake. [9]
This singing voice thrilled to my very heart; Neithotep's son, who was my companion, called it 'the wind of rumor. [10]
Mrs. Eddy, always thoughtful, has promulgated a By-law requiring the singing of one of her three hymns in the Mother Church "as often as once each month. [5]
The noise of this vocal performance awakened the other man, who, staggering upon deck and shaking his late opponent by the hand, swore that singing was his pride and joy and chief delight, and that he desired no better entertainment. [12]
It was towards this moving spectacle that the staircase and the sweet sounds guided Kit; on whose arrival before his door, Mr Brass stopped his singing, but not his smiling, and nodded affably: at the same time beckoning to him with his pen. [12]
She succeeded in this admirably during the conversation on music and singing which she carried on with Erasmus. [10]
And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. [5]
What's the noise they make in the heart, if it's not singing? [11]
In days like these, when the old ache again attacked him, Barbara and her singing had brightened the dreary gloom and lessened the pain, or she had caressed and sung it entirely away. [10]
In one of these villages we passed a church, its doors flung open; the congregation was singing a familiar hymn. [9]
As she sat there, her eyes ever watching the river as though for some one she expected, there came from the garden beneath the sound of singing. [11]
In the homes there were no cheerful faces, there was no music, there was no singing but of solemn hymns, no voice but of prayer, no romping was allowed, no noise, no laughter, the family moved spectrally about on tiptoe, in a ghostly hush. [5]
After the singing there was silence, and neither brother was happy. [5]
Just after sundown there was a great noise, and the ringing of bells and sound of singing came over the water to the idle fleet. [11]
If you stand there already like a dumb sign-post, how will it be when I thoroughly turn your head like all the rest with my singing? [10]
True, the sisters themselves seemed to feel safe, for snatches of their singing were still audible amid the ringing of the bells and the blare of the trumpets, but the fire must have been very hard to extinguish. [10]
But who heeds them on a sunny Spring morning in the forest, when the birds are singing, twittering, trilling, pecking, cooing and calling so joyously? [10]
The possession by them of organs, which with long-continued practice might have been used for speech, although not thus used, is paralleled by the case of many birds which possess organs fitted for singing, though they never sing. [1]
Many a time the woods of the West had resounded to the notes of 'En Roulant ma Boule', as the 'voyageurs' traversed the long paths of the Ottawa, St. Lawrence, and Mississippi; brave light-hearted fellows, whose singing days were over. [11]
In the evening the welcome guest was to be entertained by music and, if agreeable to Barbara, by singing also. [10]
As he descended the staircase, the last words of it kept assailing his mind, singing in his brain: "Thy Philip, qui t'aime toujours! [11]
The lindens in the square were already putting forth young leaves, the birds were singing, and her heart swelled more joyously than it had done for many years. [10]
Even yet upon the sky was the reflection of the fire, and distant sounds of singing, shouting, and carousal came to us from the Lower Town. [11]
As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed and Count Ilya Rostov became more and more moved, more glass was smashed, and the shouting grew louder. [2]
Getting over against the signal fires blazing on Flamborough Head, she wore ship and stood across our bows, the midshipman on the forecastle singing out to her, by the commodore's orders, to lay the enemy by the board. [9]
You were singing the same song on the same spot when I passed here six months ago. [11]
I have heard the river singing, and the music of the trees. [11]
Do you hear the river singing towards Carillon? [11]
Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence? [11]
The birds of the middle region dazzle with their contrasts of plumage, and their voices are for screaming rather than singing. [4]
Then she dismissed the major-domo, and a short time later singing was heard in the chapel. [10]
The verses of the lament kept singing in his brain. [11]
Just before raising the knocker he had been singing cheerfully to himself. [10]
For a bribe the jailer had furnished liquor to some of the prisoners; singing of ribald songs, fighting, shouting, and carousing was the natural consequence. [5]
The frustration of the hope that her singing would make the Emperor desire to hear her again and again had wounded her to the depths of her soul and spoiled her night's rest. [10]
Joan rode at the head of it with her personal staff; then came a body of priests singing the Veni Creator, the banner of the Cross rising out of their midst; after these the glinting forest of spears. [5]
Fashion had entered the fold, and the singing was mostly executed by a choir in the dusky gallery, who thinly and harshly warbled the emotional hymns. [4]
Master Wenzel Jamnitzer, the famous Nuremberg goldsmith, had addressed them to her in the imperial apartments, where he had listened to her singing the day before. [10]
Presently, after feeling the edge himself, he bent over the stone again, and she went on turning the wheel still singing softly. [11]
More than once the dwarf had stopped to hear her singing as he passed the smithy. [11]
Down the declivity the docile little donkey wandered, cropping herbage and singing as he went; and when at last he saw the dead horse and the wounded king, he came and snuffed at them with simple and marveling curiosity. [5]
The signal for the commencement of the singing had been the delivery of the first dish from the steward to one of the great nobles, who presented it to their Majesties. [10]
The bell on the church near by was still singing from the last stroke when he knocked, flung open the door, and stood for a moment staring at her. [9]
The singing of the birds, the blowing of the south wind, the sparkle of the waves, all found a response in Edith's heart, which leaped with joy. [4]
The choir of the birds was singing an evening anthem now as then, to the lower notes of Coniston Water, and the moist, hothouse fragrance of the ferns rose from the deep places. [9]
In his delirium the banished Phanes appeared, singing a scornful Greek song and deriding him in such infamous words, that his fists clenched with rage. [10]
Ay, laugh, if that's your pleasure, Goliath huge and old, I soon shall fare forth singing, you still your place must hold. [10]
I don't know that the singing was very good: it was not classical, I fear; not a voice, maybe, that priest's, not a chorus, probably, that, for the Metropolitan. [4]
It is believed that the singing still continues, but it is known that nobody has heard it during the present century. [5]
Many naturalists believe that the singing of birds is almost exclusively "the effect of rivalry and emulation," and not for the sake of charming their mates. [1]
Her hasty information that the Emperor did not wish to hear the choir at noon somewhat relieved his mind; but when, in answer to his no less hasty question about the singing at the late meal, the answer came, "What is that to me? [10]
I was supposing that my musical regeneration was accomplished and perfected, because I enjoyed both of these operas, singing and all, and, moreover, one of them was "Parsifal," but the experts have disenchanted me. [5]
She could feel that it was singing. [11]
All the time that he was singing the vespers he was skylarking like an imp. [4]
It may be that he was deep, and only added the singing to his operas for the sake of the contrast it would make with the music. [5]
The mere consciousness that he desired not only her singing, but her heart, inspired the deepest bliss. [10]
She sat below talking to Annette and singing a little Breton chanson: "Parvondt varbondt anan oun, Et die don la lire! [11]

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