Scragger was sitting amidships boozily singing a sea chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
No more to the rough-throat chantey her windlass creaks in time. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
The song or chantey was familiar to deep-sea sailors many years ago. 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
Several of them began to sing chanteys, but they weren't the same chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The line is appropriated from a fairly well known sea chantey whose chorus goes. From Wordnik.com. [Fractures of Unfamiliarity] Reference
She listened to the rhythmic clacking of the mock swords as Clef paced them with a chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
Paragon turned his head, mouth wide as he held the final note of the chantey, then cut it off abruptly. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
And that sea chantey on the backbar is right on target, with fifteen guests poisoned and one guest dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
"I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey," Verbinski says. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue's Gallery - Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys] Reference
Spotlighted on the backbar was a chest of gold coins and the words of a sea chantey: Fifteen men on a dead man's chest!. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
"Oh, what do you do with a drunken sailor" The chantey had dozens of verses, and new ones were easy to make up on the fly. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
The fat man with greasy jowls and a three-day-old beard behind the bar hummed a tuneless sea chantey, wiping at the already gleaming bar top. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
His homeward-bound chantey in sheet and in shroud. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05] Reference
"Limber up and give us a good old deep-sea chantey!". From Wordnik.com. [Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure] Reference
Why don't you sing a chantey over me, I want to know?. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod] Reference
Soon the capstan was manned, and the anchor lifted to the old chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869] Reference
"I don't remember," I replied; "it is a common enough deep-sea chantey.". From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
That wan't no rum and woman song, that was the old 'Whisky, Johnny' chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Harbor] Reference
"I don't suppose they ever have a good chantey with the stuff they play?" he queried. From Wordnik.com. [Java Head] Reference
Here is a traditionnal old sea chantey from Liverpool adapted in multi cultural fashion. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
Young Jerry only was to be seen, sitting on the cabin step and singing the ancient chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Courage and Other Stories] Reference
I struck up the first verse of a sailor chantey as possessing at least the interest of novelty. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
"Good Lord, let 'er go!" roared the man on the seat of the truck-wagon, finishing the stanza of his chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Harbor] Reference
The leader begins something like this, using, perhaps, the air and refrain of an old chantey or college song. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls] Reference
But still, the chantey vocal with the banjo in back nearly creates a soundtrack to some bizarre American western. From Wordnik.com. [DOA] Reference
Now and then a scrap of rude chantey reached her ears, a hoarse oath, or a loud, clear order in a voice she knew so well. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest] Reference
For Old Jerry had been a sailor, and had followed the sea till middle life, haunted always by the words of the ringing chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Courage and Other Stories] Reference
He had been bending over the cookstove singing at the top of his lungs the interminable chantey dealing with the fortunes of one. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Harbor] Reference
And the band can handle anything he throws at them, whether Celtic ballad, sea chantey, modern acoustic rocker or 12-minute prog epic. From Wordnik.com. [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference
"Perhaps no other sailor's chantey can compare with 'Seven Years at Sea' for fame and historical interest. From Wordnik.com. [Sept Ans Sur Mer] Reference
Let us thunder out a chantey. From Wordnik.com. [Stenka Razin] Reference
Someone took up a slow-paced chantey. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
There was no chatter, no chantey, no jesting. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
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