There was just a chance that the beautiful songstress might emerge.
"The Room in the Dragon Volant"
J. Sheridan LeFanu
"If you're sobbin' to hear this songstress," I says, "go for'ard an' camp down at her feet.
"Wolfville Nights"
Alfred Lewis
Fortunate art thou, my reader, if thou chance to have heard the popular song of "My Queen" sung by the one lady who alone can sing it with expression worthy the verse of the poetess and the music of the composition, by the sister of the exquisite songstress.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 5."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton