Then came drums and a distant chanting.

Suddenly, there was a rumble of hill drums and the sound of distant chanting came from a narrow street that opened onto the square.

The sound of distant chanting followed them.

Outside he could hear the sound of distant chanting, and a red glow filled the room.

It carried a distant chanting; voices of many women and men sing- ing a strange, minor theme.

Soon I began to hear a distant chanting.

A distant chanting of unearthly voices and an eerie hum resounded from deep inside the fortress.

They could all hear it - a distant chanting and the stamping of many feet.

Vaati conversation sounds more like distant chanting or the whispering of leaves in the trees than human speech.

The distant chanting of the sorcerers of Yambu had fallen into silence.