Lexicographical Neighbors of Chorussing
Literary usage of Chorussing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes (1913)
"And See-Saw; Margery Daw; there came the chorussing shout, As the swing-boats
answered the roaring tune of the rollicking roundabout; Dickory, dickory, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... found high zest in listening ; And now his fingers o'er it he did fling, And
piped a farewell in falsetto high, His boon companions loudly chorussing. ..."
3. The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays by Richard Cumberland (1817)
"... boxing-, battling,—that the pipers are at their sport; every body singing,
chorussing, clamouring, whilst the house smokes with the odours of cinnamon, ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"... by the light of her sufferings the wrong-doing appeared gigantic, chorussing
eulogies of the man she had thought her lover: and who was her lover once, ..."
5. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"... or spoils it by too much chorussing ; but here we have it almost pure, at
least for an instant, and it makes us wish we had it oftener from him. ..."
6. My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1921)
"... night and day from every hedge, quite a dozen close to the house so that one
can hear them at any hour of the night chorussing when one opens a window. ..."
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