96 examples of paean in sentences

This paean of recantation and aspiration occupies the remainder of the poem.

When, however, the adherents of Sextus were routed, then in unison and with one impulse the one side raised the paean and the others a wail of lamentation.

At all events, it is difficult to join in the paean of gratitude for the tons of children's books that are turned out yearly by parental publishers.

Yet let not us maidens condemn our kind, Because our virtues are not all so rare: For we may freshly yet record in mind, There lives a virgin,[60] one without compare, Who of all graces hath her heavenly share; In whose renown, and for whose happy days, Let us record this paean of her praise.

Should he abuse the confidence she has placed in him, I myself shall pray, that vengeance may fall upon his headRaroI quite forget all my Latin; but I think it is, Raro antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede paean claudo: where vice goes before, vengeance (sooner or later) will follow.

"Paian," Latin Paean, is also a cry of victory; but the relation of the two meanings is not quite made out.

When the victory is won, he exults in a paean of victory as soul-stirring as the Song of Deborah.

Up went the flags and banners of crimson hues, loud sounded the paean of praise and thanksgiving from thousands of straining throats, while below on the side lines the coaches leaped for joy and strained each other to their breasts in unspeakable delight.

Each found expression in sculptured monument,the one hinting of flight into darkness, and the other of resurrection into light; each in its cycle inclosed the world; each widened into the invisible; as the wail of Achtheia reached the heart of Hades, so the paean of Dionysus was lost in the heavens.

If anything could, it would have been the drama; but no wailings were ever heard from beneath the masks of the stage like the wailings of Achtheia,no jubilant song of the Chorus ever rose like the paean of Dionysiac triumph.

Atupu struck the leader of the Noa-Noa snipers in the nose with a rock, and her success brought a paean of praise from all of us.

Loud soon shall sound a paean of thanksgiving From happy women, welcoming their men, Life born anew of joy to see them living.

The great West had not yet raised its voice, augmented by new millions of voices pealing the paean of liberty and opportunity for man.

Some exulted and sang the paean, while others were grieved and lamented, so that all places were filled with cries and groans.

But these thou shalt not take, The laurel, the palms and the paean, the breast of the nymphs in the brake.

" ROSEBERY persistent; wants to know what means were taken to obtain the opinion of the population, and elicit this paean of joy?

At home once again, the servants and the animals seemed equally glad to see us back; the former looked the picture of happiness, while the dogs jumped and barked; the horses and ponies neighed and whinnied; the monkeys chattered; the cockatoos and parrots screamed; the birds chirped; the bullfinches piped their little paean of welcome....

They are a miracle of patient hands, They are a victory of suffering, a paean of pain; All pangs of death, all cries of birth, Are in the mute, moss-covered stones; They are eloquent to my hands.

The usual transition from the dirge to the paean is managed with more than the usual lack of effect.

Sunrise and sunset were not a paean to day and night, but five o'clock A.M. or P.M.

It was not a paean nor a lament that she played, but a fluctuating, vibratory air, expressive of mutation.

Victory!Ah, but it is, believe me, Easier, easier far, to intone the chant of the martyr Than to indite any paean of any victory.

The dew was sparkling on the grass when I set out in the early morning, gossamer spider webs strung from leaf and stem glistened in the sunlight, and up from a tuft of grass a meadow lark sprang on silent wing, scattering his silvery notes, a paean of praise to the early dawn.

"He has forbidden M. Cazalès the house," rang like a paean in my ear.

And overhead the rapturous bird-voice pealed forth a perfect paean of victory.

96 examples of  paean  in sentences