Significats de mournful cadence en anglès

It was an inexpressibly mournful cadence, and for the time stilled all other sounds.

He spoke with unusual tenderness in his manner, and his voice shook and had a mournful cadence.

An owl hooted in mournful cadence close by and she felt that her hair was going straight on end.

If one lets the lines ring in his ears a little, the true Hawthornesque murmur and half- mournful cadence become clear.

During the whole night, which was black as wickedness, the wind howled in mournful cadence, or went sobbing along the sand.

As the mournful cadence died away, she turned, and started with well-feigned surprise on meeting the piercing glance fixed upon her.

Quite possibly it would prove to be a mild estheticism that delighted in the savor of incense and the mournful cadence of choral vespers.

Before, however, there was time to laugh, this riot ceased, and became a mournful cadence, to the slowly passing harmonies of which, Krafft sang:

It was the hymn which the peasants always sing as they go forth to their work in the fields; but its mournful cadence haunted me.

Her little violets had already given their first fragrant kiss to breezes that passed with no mournful cadence through the cypresses of the lonely cemetery.

Isaac's ill-humor scarcely ever survived the anodyne of these mournful cadences.

To the mournful cadences of a lone fiddler, she stepped out on the gallery.

She played the sweet air, with its Mozart-like, mournful cadences, entirely through ere she felt nerved enough to begin.