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Meanings of threnody in English
Usage of threnody in English
1
The letter to his wife after he reached Washington was a threnody.
2
Stern advanced the spark and now the screw sang a louder, higher threnody.
3
It is the difference between an inchoate wail and a threnody.
4
Not the least touching is Luigi's own threnody, which starts upon this note:-
5
Poliziano poured forth his sorrow in a Latin threnody of touching and simple beauty.
6
Words from Swinburne's threnody on Baudelaire came to her mind.
7
Then from the copse beyond the orchard there sounds the mournful threnody of the owl.
8
A cooing dove (just one) murmured her dreamy threnody and then was silent.
9
Foot stamper, shouter and singer of the threnody.
10
The wind wails its threnody for Fumat.
11
Is there any threnody over a death half so unutterably sad as that one jest over a life?
12
This threnody in my scarlet skull.
13
And forever the sea sang a low muttering bass to the faint threnody of the wind in the palms.
14
I will sing a little threnody composed by myself, about the good old days of this world before the Flood.
15
John stepped back from the weapon, picked up the hurdy-gurdy, and played again the pixilated threnody of the dragon's name.
16
And still Lilly, on the click of the door after him, could not clear her brain of the running threnody of nonsense:
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Threnody through the time