'No,' said the second prebendary. 'It is to be fifteen. A special case was made.'
'No such thing,' said the chancellor. 'You'll find I'm right,' said the prebendary. 'I'm sure I read it in the report,' said the minor canon. 'Nonsense,' said the chancellor. 'They couldn't do it. There were to be no exceptions but London and Durham.'
'And Canterbury and York,' said the vicar choral, modestly.英文原著 · 《Barchester Towers》
Yet still this leaves many dissatisfied. They want to shout out about God. They want to share this great thing with all mankind. Why should they not shout and share? Let them express all that they desire to express in their own fashion by themselves or grouped with their friends as they will. Let them shout chorally if they are so disposed. Let them work in a gang if so they can work the better. But let them guard themselves against the idea that they can have God particularly or exclusively with them in any such undertaking.英文原著 · 《God The Invisible King》
So _true_ every way; true eyesight and vision for all things; material things no less than spiritual: the Horse,--"hast thou clothed his neck with _thunder_?"--he "_laughs_ at the shaking of the spear!" Such living likenesses were never since drawn. Sublime sorrow, sublime reconciliation; oldest choral melody as of the heart of mankind;--so soft, and great; as the summer midnight, as the world with its seas and stars! There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.--英文原著 · 《Heroes and Hero Worship》
them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral英文原著 · 《Ion》
It would do one's heart good to hear, on a club night, the shouts of merriment, the snatches of song, and now and then the choral bursts of half a dozen discordant voices, which issue from this jovial mansion. At such times the street is lined with listeners, who enjoy a delight equal to that of gazing into a confectioner's window, or snuffing up the steams of a cookshop.英文原著 · 《Little Britain》
(MEDEA has been seated in despair on her door-step during the choral song. AEGEUS and his attendants enter.)英文原著 · 《Medea》