23 Verbs to Use for the Word lullaby

They rode ever by sequestered paths, skirting shady wood and coppice where birds sang soft a drowsy lullaby, wooing the world to forgetfulness and rest; fording prattling brook and whispering stream whose placid waters flamed to the glory of sunset.

Here they found an old man busily engaged in carving a walrus tooth, another sewing mukluks, while a girl was singing a quaint lullaby to a child of two in the corner.

" "Will you sing it now?" asked Mr. Strong, and she smiled in assent and sang the quaint, crooning lullaby of her Esquimo mother "The wind blows over the Yukon.

But "cursed be Canaan" is a poor drug to ease a throbbing consciencea mocking lullaby, to unquiet tossings, and vainly crying "Peace be still," where God wakes war, and breaks his thunders.

One little girl after another would go proudly to the "mother's chair" and rock the cradle, while the other children hummed their gentle lullabies.

The old man sat in the shadow of the tree his own hands planted; its fruitful boughs shone ruddily, and its leaves still whispered the low lullaby that hushed him to his rest.

It is hard for all to wait so long, and the babies need a lullaby.

But closely as they cling to it, "cursed be Canaan" is a poor drug to stupify a throbbing consciencea mocking lullaby, vainly wooing slumber to unquiet tossings, and crying "Peace, be still," where God wakes war, and breaks his thunders.

and without giving him a second to think, we began our familiar lullaby.

At any rate, the faint memory inspired him and, raising his violin, he played a beautiful lullaby.

Mr. M. seems indeed to have a turn for this species of Nursery Tales and prattling Lullabies; and, if he will studiously cultivate his talent, he need not despair of figuring in a conspicuous corner of Mr NEWBERY's shop window: unless indeed Mrs. TRIMMER should think fit to proscribe those empty levities and idle superstitions, by which the World has been too long abused.

" Proud of his knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon tongue, the youth replied: "Ah, madam, then you will be able to prove a lullaby.

" Friday Afternoon, MY DEAR ANNA :-I send you a "lullaby" for next Sunday, which I met with at Dorset, and hope it will speak a little word and sing a little song to you while the rest are at church.

If I lay me down in slumber, Then I lay me down in wrath; If I stir not in dark dreaming, Then I wither in my path; If I hear sweet voices singing, 'Tis a demon's lullaby:

The little birds heard them and began to trill sweet lullabies, which presently lulled them to rest.

'tis little changed am I; May Jesu keep from tears those infant eyes, Be love their lullaby!

For a while I lay luxuriating as in the delusion of a pleasant dream, as though the melody that was abroad on the air was the voices of angels chanting their lullaby into the charmed ear of the sleeper.

"But" Luke continued his animal lullaby, he kept extending his hand.

Clement began to rock his new treasure in his arms, and to crone over him a little lullaby well known in Tergon, with which his own mother had often set him off.

The former are all joyous and happy, full of gladness and merriment, full of life and animation; the latter solemn, deep, profound, lulling to the senses; not sorrowful nor sad, yet still such as form a calm and quiet lullaby, under the influence of which one glides away into slumber, and sleeps quietly until dawn.

Fay said no more, and in a few minutes she tripped down stairs, and when her mamma followed soon after, she heard the creak of Fay's little rocking chair, and the words, "Sleep, baby, sleep," which told her as she peeped through a crack in the door, that Susy was getting her last lullaby from the fond little mother, who at the proper time presented Susy all dressed for her journey to Tougaloo.

Though the linen that will be Its swathe is on the cotton tree Though the woollen that will keep It warm is on the silly sheep Listen, starlight, listen, listen, Glisten, glisten, glisten, glisten, And hear my lullaby!

~A Memory.~ Shadows up the hillside creeping, Gold in western sky, Meadow-brook beneath us keeping Dreamy lullaby.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  lullaby