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Chant with penitential words, sung after the Gradual in the Mass in Lent (in place of the Alleluia). Tracts are the only surviving examples in the regular chants of the Mass of ‘direct psalmody’, sung without antiphon or respond. They occur only in modes two and eight, and it is possible that those of mode two were originally Graduals. Their structure is that of a highly elaborated psalm-tone. The number of verses ranges from 2 to 14.



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The tract was one of a series addressed to young women on the sinfulness of dress.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.
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Several gentlemen among them purchased a tract of country on the coast of Massachusetts Bay, and obtained a charter from King Charles, which authorized them to make laws for the settlers.
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