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Meanings of plaintive melody in English

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Usage of plaintive melody in English
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Perreeza took the instrument in her arms and sang a plaintive melody
The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon
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The plaintive melody of a German song rose on the air.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
3
The sound of a manly step upon the pathway silenced her plaintive melody.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
4
Finally she began to sing a plaintive melody all about dreams and rest.
L'Assommoir
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What recollections, what associations, were evoked by that plaintive melody, who shall say?
Charlotte's Inheritance
6
But the plaintive melody and the pathetic force of the rhythm grip the heart.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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It made plaintive melody in the nocturnal stillness, bespeaking the death-knell perchance of many.
The Siege of Kimberley / Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boe...
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Picking our dusty lyre we began a plaintive melody.
The new yorker
9
The Hebrew took the harp, and, in tones peculiar for their sweetness, sang a plaintive melody.
The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon
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Stronger and stronger the plaintive melody fell from his lips, until finally the orchestra itself joined.
The Triflers
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The elusive, plaintive melody floated throbbingly out into the room, while the girls sat motionless, fascinated.
The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point; Or a Wreck and a Rescue
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As he breathed a sigh, the air sounded through the reeds, and produced a plaintive melody.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
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But, more than that, here was the atmosphere that she had breathed into the plaintive melody of her verse.
A Sappho of Green Springs
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Like some sweet, plaintive melody
Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer
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Then the girl's voice came floating through the air in a plaintive melody, and Henley was recalled to his surroundings.
The Ghost of Guir House
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He concluded his plaintive melody, a very simple performance, demanding no great skill; and she waited, thinking another might be begun.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
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