266 examples of dirges in sentences

It began to wail in mournful dirges over the swamp, and then it burst in fierce shrieking volleys, with intervals of quiet between.

Bellarius also proposed to carry her out into the forest, and there celebrate her funeral with songs and solemn dirges, as was then the custom.

I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'

For holy dirges sing me woodmen's songs, As ye to Wakefield walk with voices shrill.

They alone of all his writings have descended to us, but these, made up as they are of odic fragments, songs, dirges, and panegyrics, show the great excellence to which he attained.

"In pathetic dirges, in songs of jubilee, in outbursts of praise, in prophetic announcements, in the agonies of contrition, in bursts of adoration, in the beatitudes of holy bliss, in the enchanting calmness of Christian life," no one has ever surpassed David, so that he was called "the sweet singer of Israel.

Prosopopoia v. 453, diriges, Q. dirges.

Grafulla's band was in attendance, and, prior to the opening of the meeting, played several fine dirges.

What of this quality may have found expression in his lost poems, especially the Dirges, we can scarcely guess, but in his triumphal odes it hardly appears at all, unless in the touches of tender gracefulness into which he softens when speaking of the young.

[Footnote 8: For Pindar's ideas as to a future life see especially the fragments of his Dirges which remain to us.

I FRAGMENTS OF DIRGES (thraenoi).

And so, drawn by the hands of young men lately strangers to him, but of whose bravery and loyalty he had been the laureate, and who fitly mourned him who had honored them, with long, pealing dirges and muffled drums, he moved forward.

28 'One morn I miss'd him on the accustom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree; Another came, nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood, was he: 29 'The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway-path we saw him borne: Approach, and read (for thou canst read)

This last ceremony was performed by torchlight, the canons singing dirges, and offering orisons, at between four and five o'clock of the morning, on St. Andrew's Day, November the 30th, 1530.

These fragments suggest a popular poesy, stirring and full of powerful imagery, employed mostly in celebrating royal marriages, religious feasts, and containing dirges for the dead, and ballads of customsnot a wide field, but one invaluable to the philologist and to ethnological students.

Sang dirges o'er him waning fast away Like snow on Athos, or on Hæmus high, Or Rhodopè, or utmost Caucasus.

Just as she gazed in other lands on some cathedral dim, Whose aisles resounded to the strains of dirges or of hymn.

The fox his guilty vigils keep The boding owl his dirges sing; But love and innocence will sleep: Good nightgood night!

Little loves, little fears and sins and hopes were all he had known before; and now he entered into the torrential temperaments of the mastersmagnificent and terrifying souls who dared to sin against God, or die defying man; whose passions stormed the world; whose dirges were wrung from heaven.

The dirges lifted him to immensity from which the abysses of the world spread themselves below.

There is much wild and beautiful romance in the diction, but we take the most attractive portion to be the lyrical portion, as the Chants, Dirges, and Choruses.

Thus much forgive; and trust, in such an hour, I had not said e'en this, but for the hope That when the voice of victory is heard From the fair Tuscan valleys, in its swell Should mournful dirges mingle for the dead,

Where the snowstorms wild Raised o'er him a tomb, While the North wind sang Dirges in the gloom.

We have been overwhelmed with lamentable Cambridge and Oxford dirges on the Prince's death: there is but one tolerable copy; it is by a young Lord Stormont, a nephew of Murray, who is much commended.

Everything is given up to the dirges of the moaning seas, the white shrouds of weeping mist.

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