A choric Greek tragedy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"My years excuse me from choric exercises," said the Sage. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919] Reference
So let's join ranks and seal our bargain with a choric song. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
He waved an ungloved hand in the direction of a choric line. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
During the choric dance184 he is driven away into ignominious quarters. From Wordnik.com. [The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians] Reference
Sleep is usually the only time when a choric is not vulnerable to fits. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
The first stanza of the choric song, however, goes like this: ababcccdddd. From Wordnik.com. ["I never see those things"] Reference
This verse translation is the most successful; it renders the choric odes with skill. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Furies, in their raucousness, subvert the dynamics of normal choric oration through taunting Prometheus with. From Wordnik.com. ['An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa] Reference
But, by way of supplying the choric melodies sung here in old time, one of our companions mounted on the scene and spouted. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference
Come, let us agree for the future not to regard each other any more as enemies; and to clinch the bargain, let us sing a choric song. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
He seems to have prided himself on his choric odes. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles] Reference
In attempting to render the grand choric odes of the. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles] Reference
The choric bridal company gives intervening strophes. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
Harris has written some choric works for men and women also. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Its choric structure is masterly, its spirit is running fire. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
It will be observed that the book contains seven choric songs. From Wordnik.com. [The Books of the New Testament] Reference
To translation, however, the choric odes hardly lend themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles] Reference
Dorothea's inward sorrows as if he had been writing a choric wail. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
Courtly friends, guards, and a choric bridal company, form a circle. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
During the choric dance (3) he is driven away into ignominious quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians] Reference
And deep the Maenads choric dance, Crusaders cross, and heathen crest15. From Wordnik.com. [A City Afternoon] Reference
The Exode is that entire part of a tragedy which has no choric song after it. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
Recitations were first introduced between hymns that attended the choric dances. From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
The Episode is that entire part of a tragedy which is between complete choric songs. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
And the Great Sloth wearies us with the singing of choric songs when we long to be asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic City] Reference
True, adoration of Earth, the All-Mother, runs like a choric hymn through all the tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Brontës] Reference
As to the models to which he is indebted for his treatment of choric metres we know nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
His priests and generals, captives and choric women, are as little Greek as they are modern. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
The central topic of the choric speech is the essential limitations of all scenic appliances. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
The fast-gathering cavaliers lend masculine character to the choric refrains at every interval. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
It would be marriage with a mirror, with an echo; marriage with a shining mirror, a choric echo. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Count Orso says, and marches forth, after receiving the compliment of a choric song in honour of his paternal government. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
A sort of choric comment on the action of a music drama or symphonic poem, has been the Wagnerian. From Wordnik.com. [MOTIF] Reference
Shall they sing a choric strain?. From Wordnik.com. [Laws] Reference
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