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单词 chanty
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With her counterpart on the starboard watch, Theo, she led chanties while the crew raised the sails, while they sweated and heaved at the capstans. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
She slips a CD of sea chanties into a player as she prepares a dinner of meatballs in the small galley below decks in the heart of Lady Washington. Cruising California’s coast on the tall ship Lady Washington 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z
And the music grows repetitive when it leans too heavily on sing-songy sea chanty tropes. ‘Ernest Shackleton Loves Me’: a modern expedition to romance 2014-04-21T23:56:15Z
But he sought out traditional songs, from blues to sea chanties, wrote new fingerpicking guitar arrangements and reworked the vocal lines so thoroughly that they entered the broader folk repertory bearing his stamp. The Singer Who Inspired Coen Brothers’ New Film 2013-12-05T22:59:33Z
They grow fast, much faster than chanterelles, and it’s likely they hadn’t even broken through the duff when the competition cleaned out the chanties a couple of days earlier. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z
Their first video, a rendition of the sea chanty “Drunken Sailor”, dropped Nov. 21. Gibbs High boys sing to millions from a school bathroom 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z
FRI Traditional Irish supper, drinks, Irish music and sea chanties aboard the docked 1904 Lightship “Swiftsure;” proceeds benefit Northwest Seaport maritime heritage nonprofit; 7 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z
It takes just a few props and a lot of gusto to depict the launching of the good 18th-century ship Hispaniola, along with some hearty sea chanties. At Book-It, a ‘Treasure Island’ full of gems 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z
Mary had brought her mandoline, and on fine evenings they would get up a concert, the sailors singing their chanties and dancing the hornpipe. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
Then it rang out rich and harmonious, the full-throated paddling chanty of a gold-boat of blacks coming down river with their tiny pokes of glittering dust. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z
Whistling cheerily, a rollicking chanty of the sea to which his feet kept time, he walked briskly along. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z
"That chanty grows wearisome," said Maxwell at length; and, because Dane was overwrought, his companion's composure jarred upon him. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z
Mr. Waterson, a bass, possessed a robust, unaffected, pleasantly sandpapery voice that seemed made for sea chanties, which the group also sang. Mike Waterson, Member of British Folk Troupe, Dies at 70 2011-06-25T21:35:11Z
The negroes have learnt them from hearing sailors' chanties or they have adopted hymn tunes. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z
The praise of the sea life that we find in their chanties is the praise of cheerful men. The Book of This and That
It is time we ceased to sing that Rio Grande chanty: an amende is overdue. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war
At times between the raking spars I felt the blank moon rise; Or heard the chanties of the tars With a sad, sick surprise. Ioläus The man that was a ghost
He sang to an old "chanty" tune, one that I remembered well. The Harbor
There is, however, a curious survival of the personal element still to be traced in some of the sailors' chanties. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore
There are no "chanties" or sailors' songs, which help the work to go easily. Six Letters From the Colonies
"What shall we do with a drunken sailor?" was the chanty that they sang. The Sandman: His Sea Stories
All the crew were aboard and a knot of swaying bodies turned the windlass to the rhythm of a muttered chanty. The Black Buccaneer
"Well, did ye find the chanties?" he asked. The Harbor
In one of his essays he is lamenting the songlessness of modern life and suggests one or two chanties. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
The thrill that a whole-lunged chanty gives is difficult to describe. Edge of the Jungle
He heard the sailors running away with their end of the rope and shouting a chanty and stamping their feet. The Sandman: His Sea Stories
To the tune of a Dutch sailors’ “chanty” the links of the cable slowly clanked inboard. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub
We were at the windlass heaving up the anchor, at the time, and had just struck up a sailor's chanty, which made a good deal of noise, but nothing seemed to disturb Granfa. Explorers of the Dawn
A famous capstan chanty is well known on land, whence, indeed, it originally came: And it's hame, dearie, hame; oh! it's hame I want to be. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
After paying actual expenses, Mr. Stephen, however, handed the surplus to a chanty. The History of Tasmania, Volume I
And there was a great noise of a lively chanty, that the sailors sang all the time, without stopping. The Sandman: His Sea Stories
An old cargo tramp lay in a far berth, and one caught the sound of rushing blocks, and a monotonous voice wailing the Malayan chanty: "Love is kind to the least of men, EEEE-ah, EEEE-ah!" Nights in London
Often he would sit with the little fellow in his arms, crooning to him fragments of old sea chanties whose refrains were haunting to hear. Carl and the Cotton Gin
Every one tails on, puts his back into it, and joins the chorus of the hard-breathed chanty. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
A chanty was lustily sung when hoisting the yard up, and when they undertook to reef the main topsail it was quite obvious the over plentiful supply of grog was taking serious effect. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
Cookie came and gave us a hand at the pumps and started some of the old chanties. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
Love, says an old Malayan chanty which I learned at West India Dock—Love is kind to the least of men. Nights in London
She resumed her song with a gay air of bravado; passing from one chanty to another in a voice fluty as a blackbird. A Mating in the Wilds
Then the chanty rises from the swaying men, rises and falls, in wavering bursts of sound, as if the gale was whirling it about: Blow the man down, blow the man down, 'Way-ho! All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
The vogue of 'chanty' was apparently created by the late W.E. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
In a more or less extensive, though desultory, reading of a little of almost everything, the writer has never stumbled upon any chanty or verse from which the famous quatrain might have sprung. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
The breeze was crooning softly through the branches of the trees, singing weird chanties to itself. The Lost Valley
Cowboy songs, sea chanties, and ballads many years old were often on call. I Married a Ranger
We had no adventures to record until the last week in July beyond the catching of flying-fish, singing chanties at the pump, and Lillie getting measles. South with Scott
The 'literary' sailors, Clark Russell and Frank Bullen, have also spelt it 'chanty,' but their reason is obvious. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
Allison’s chanty is one of the best, if not the very best, in its class, and The Scoop is glad to have been given a chance to so accredit it. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
One section had started a quaint chanty; the rest caught it up presently, and with the rhythm of the song came something like order among the mutineers. In the Roaring Fifties
But the selectman hummed an old sea chanty while he hunted for a blank, and smiled as he penned the document. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
No melody ever sang more clearly of the sea; no melody was ever less like a sailor's chanty. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
It sometimes is a help to the digger to sing a chanty, just to give him the beat. Love Conquers All
A chanty contained one verse or line only, the rest depending on the composition of the man who sang the verse or line. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
As an example, I give four verses of the chanty "Boney was a Warrior," as it was sung in the days I speak of. The Tragedy of St. Helena
And how if then, one evening, you had seen a Blackwall liner haul out for the Antipodes while her crew sang a chanty! London River
On Xmas night it was kept up till 1 A.M., and no work is done without a chanty. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
The "Hanging Johnny" refrain, in "The Cremona Violin", is borrowed from the old, well-known chanty of that name. Men, Women and Ghosts
He then printed Walt Mason’s letter describing the poem as a work of art and altered his editorial characterization of it to “famous old chanty.” The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
Outside in the chequered sunlight of the orchard the child would be playing with his nurse, crooning in childish syllables the chanty his father had taught him. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Na," says my uncle, "but this is no a very chanty kind of a proceeding, and I'm bound to be prepared. Kidnapped
I don't know if you have ever heard sea chanties being sung. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
We hove up anchor to a jolly chanty, and sailed out of Yokohama harbour for San Francisco. John Barleycorn
Walt Mason saw the versification was artful instead of “bungling and crude,” but the Times critic knows a copy out of a “chanty book” when he sees it. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
They are not afraid of repetition,—indeed the theory of choral collaboration implies a constant use of repetition and refrain, as in a sailor's "chanty." A Study of Poetry
Behind him in the stern seat, singing fragments of his native chanties, Défago steered the craft of birch bark like a thing of life, answering cheerfully all his companion's questions. The Wendigo
Officers and men are singing chanties over their arduous work. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
His care is his conscience, his wealth is his credit, his charge is his chanty, and his content is his kingdom. Character Writings of the 17th Century
It is not likely, however, that he wrote the famous old chanty. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
From without came the low lapping of the tide, and from over the water a sailor's chanty from the barque. The Green Flag
Grey sang an English song about the north-country maid who came to London, and a bit of the chanty of the Devon men who sacked Santa Fe and stole the Almirante's daughter. Salute to Adventurers
To have been born on the other side of the British Channel, spread an ocean between every poor foreigner and Mr. Vincent's purse which the swiftest wings of chanty could never cross. Thaddeus of Warsaw
The hauling was carried out to the accompaniment of chanties, and these helped to relieve the strain of the Work. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
In the days when sailing ships and sailors were on the deep, chanties were used with every heave or pull. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
Sharkey could hear the hoarse voices of his rovers singing their chanty over the water. The Green Flag
Yet the unchanging repetition makes the work easier, as a sailor's chanty helps at the topsail halliards. The Heart of Rome
Indeed, his "chanty began at home;" and it was so fond of its residence, that it stopped there. Thaddeus of Warsaw
The chorus and chanty came to our aid once more, and the long hours of heaving on the fo'c'sle head were a bright if strenuous spot in our memories of Macquarie Island. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Here is a heaving chanty, or slow pull: “‘To South Australia we’re bound to go— Heave away, heave away. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
That worthy picking up the scent of the fagend of the song or words growled in wouldbe music but with great vim some kind of chanty or other in seconds or thirds. Ulysses
A Japanese tune rises like a sailors' chanty from the band. A Second Book of Operas
We dined and as there was no moon, went to bed rather early after listening to the Sudanese singers as they sang one of their weird chanties. The Ivory Child
Why, it's all of twenty odd year since you used to set on a nail keg in my boathouse and tease me into singing the Dreadnought chanty. Thankful's Inheritance
But it seems to, when it is adopted as a “real chanty”—and that’s the test, that it “seems.” The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
Why didn’t they sing a chanty as they hove the anchor up?  The Mutiny of the Elsinore
"Tell them to go and catch the spook; we don't want a lot of noisy fellows howling chanties here all night." Finished
They went about it in their usual way, all taking hold, and "heaving" together with a "chanty," or song, to enliven their work. Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures
We were moving slowly under the influence of the oared boats ahead of us, when a seaman at the forward capstan began to sing the solo part of an old capstan chanty. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
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