To the tune of a Dutch sailors '"chanty" the links of the cable slowly clanked inboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub] Reference

Marathon or have you picked it out of some labourer's chanty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

She lived in an old sea chanty, interpreted by emilytheslayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valentines, part the first] Reference

It is not likely, however, that he wrote the famous old chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference

She can be heard in the pilot house now, bellowing her sea chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

She lived in an old sea chanty, on the shores of the great big sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valentines, part the first] Reference

Instead, they build through chanty choruses, shift tempo and fade away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reggatta de Blanc] Reference

Jesse sang a sea chanty more softly, then finally let his voice trail off to a tuneless hum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

Which was the occasion, says Mr Vincent, of the composing by a boatswain of that rollicking chanty: —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Possibly what you need presently is your faithful crew breaking into some heartening chanty, the kind of.    From Wordnik.com.  [lacune] Reference

We believe in the paramount value of faith, and in the manifestation of that faith in chanty and brotherhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

My grandpa who built his own sailboats was partial to "The Walloping Window Blind" after the popular sea chanty of the same name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Popular Boat Names For 2008] Reference

Why didn't they sing a chanty as they hove the anchor up?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference

No mere reader can feel the stir of that grand old chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

Suddenly he began to croon a long-forgotten sailor's chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stowaway Girl] Reference

Hurd knew the fierce old chanty and sized Captain Jarvey up at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opal Serpent] Reference

The thrill that a whole-lunged chanty gives is difficult to describe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

His chanty was printed, we believe. extensive in an uncommon degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:] Reference

The old chanty whereof he, among a very few, possessed all the words was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light That Failed] Reference

A famous capstan chanty is well known on land, whence, indeed, it originally came.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

After paying actual expenses, Mr. Stephen, however, handed the surplus to a chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tasmania, Volume I] Reference

Malayan chanty which I learned at West India Dock -- Love is kind to the least of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights in London] Reference

We hove up anchor to a jolly chanty, and sailed out of Yokohama harbour for San Francisco.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

Every one tails on, puts his back into it, and joins the chorus of the hard-breathed chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

No melody ever sang more clearly of the sea; no melody was ever less like a sailor's chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Wagner Composer of Operas] Reference

Indeed, his "chanty began at home;" and it was so fond of its residence, that it stopped there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference

Which was the occasion, says Mr Vincent, of the composing by a boatswain of that rollicking chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Yet the unchanging repetition makes the work easier, as a sailor's chanty helps at the topsail halliards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Rome] Reference

All the crew were aboard and a knot of swaying bodies turned the windlass to the rhythm of a muttered chanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Buccaneer] Reference

The "Hanging Johnny" refrain, in "The Cremona Violin", is borrowed from the old, well-known chanty of that name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men, Women and Ghosts] Reference

Then the chanty rises from the swaying men, rises and falls, in wavering bursts of sound, as if the gale was whirling it about.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thankful's Inheritance] Reference