9 examples of cradle-song in sentences

"Seeing Kaviak's feather reminded me of a native cradle-song that's a kind of a story, too.

Between the next two cantos intervenes the well-known cradle-song, perhaps the best of all; and at the next interval is the equally well-known bugle-song, the idea of which is that of twin-labour and twin-fame, in a pair of lovers: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

Hypotheses are cradle-songs by which the teacher lulls his scholars to sleep.

Its insect kind was the most dangerous enemy man had: the only form of life he had not conquered, and would be crooning cradle-songs when humanity, perhaps through its agency, or perhaps through the sun growing cold, had passed from the earth.

The Idyll itself, as Mr. Finck says, "is not merely an orchestral cradle-song; it is the embodiment of love, paternal and conjugal.

She once more arrayed herself in smiles, and again took part in the festivities which now were filling the halls of St. Cloud, Malmaison, and the Tuileries, and which, too, were but the dying lay of the swan of the republic, or, if you will, the cradle-song of reviving monarchy.

For faintly in the ingle-nook He heard a cradle-song, That rose into his thoughts and woke Terror them among.

My cradle-song was this, Strange inarticulate sorrows of the sea, Blithe rhythms upgathered from the Sirens' caves.

She hummed to herself an old cradle-song, and in her soft, motherly black eyes shone a mild, happy radiance.

9 examples of  cradle-song  in sentences