I liked the antiphony that we sang last Sunday at church. From LearnThat.org.
The two took up a kind of antiphony, one against the other, now rising in volume, now dying down to a low grumble, again suddenly bursting like an explosion. From Wordnik.com. [The Leopard Woman] Reference
And so the antiphony of discouragement ended in a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
Graves had to listen to an antiphony of praise, sung by Ruth and Mrs. Hilliard. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Over that part of England the winter solstice came down with a bitter antiphony of snow and frost. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
And there followed the antiphony of ardour that finds its first utterance — a subdued music, often interrupted, ever returning upon the same rich note. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Shelley takes this scene of boundless audition to the Alps, and replays it with a sense of poetry aspiring, not to tame, but to run wild with antiphony and metrical disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference
'An antiphony -- they lie, and you sing back to them. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
"Oh, ain't it?" would be the antiphony of the unphilosophical one. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
They are on old vellum, taken from an Italian antiphony of around 1400. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Newspaper - RSS] Reference
Trinidad recited his appeal and the Judge boomed out his ponderous antiphony. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
Her answer came, still led by the commanding voice, like an antiphony of love. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
He cries his wavering shrill-voiced chant; the toilers utter antiphony in low gruff tones. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
The revival of 1851-2 was a local one, but was believed by many to have been inspired by a celestial antiphony. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference
The culprits poured out for a while an antiphony of explanations, which died out at last in a miserable silence. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference
Under this gigantic antiphony the motor-car raced along, curiously small and irrelevant on that empty country road. From Wordnik.com. [Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them] Reference
TO make the piece more interesting introduce some antiphony (question and answer) passages between the instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
He looked back fondly to the days when he had sung his part in the antiphony in the magnificent cathedral at Manila. From Wordnik.com. [The Great White Tribe in Filipinia] Reference
Normal as cock-crowing seemed the antiphony to the common ear, which scarcely noticed the rareness of the indoor voice. From Wordnik.com. [Kincaid's Battery] Reference
And he was comforted by the word that came to him, and he fell asleep to the little antiphony he held with his own soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Measure of a Man] Reference
"Say, it's a shame, ain't it, to give you the worst end of it?" came the sympathetic antiphony of the steeplechase goddess. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
Now her revolver was speaking, in antiphony with his; and from the branches, two, three, five, eight, ten of the ape-things fell. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
A silence as of some high-arched cathedral reigned, broken occasionally by the antiphony of feathered songsters in the trees overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania] Reference
Soon the longer, stronger billows of song rolled in, sweeping from side to side as the men and the women answered in the clear antiphony. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Flower] Reference
Like the old New England "Easter Anthem" it appears to have been suggested by an anonymous translation of some more ancient (Latin) antiphony. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference
These two chords of poignant antiphony she struck throughout the range of the hearts of men, and strangely intervolved them in vibrating unison. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
With a tram packed with howling colliers, roaring hymns downstairs and a sort of antiphony of obscenities upstairs, the lasses are perfectly at their ease. From Wordnik.com. [England, My England] Reference
And ever, as we marched, could the voices of Boev and the old soldier be heard speaking in antiphony, like two pipes being fluted by one and the same pair of lips. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
To regard each day, as it dawns, as a "last day," and to make of its sunrise, of its noon, of its sun-setting, a rhythmic antiphony to the eternal gods -- this is to live in the spirit of the "grand style.". From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
Immediately his loving wife answered in agreeable antiphony: — “These shouts ascending to the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
They went on in an antiphony of praise till March said: "Really, I don't see what's left me but to strike for higher wages. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
What a beautiful antiphony!. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks by the Traveller's Way] Reference
In sweet antiphony amid the feast. From Wordnik.com. [Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation] Reference
And in the antiphony of afterglow5. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting. Afield at Dusk] Reference
In full antiphony, by a common grace?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
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