In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism. From LearnThat.org. [Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924), Russian Communist leader from 1920.]
The sense I get is of Iraq as an undertone, a kind of dirge playing softly beneath the pop charts. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Waiting For The Heads to Roll] Reference
If I could write 'dirge' that good, then I'd be a very happy man. From Wordnik.com. [Empire News] Reference
She would sit for hours singing or rather mourning out a kind of dirge over herself. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
"dirge" has passed into the English language, and is derived from the latter. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
She would sit for hours singing or rather mourning out a kind of dirge over herself: "Yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
English word "dirge"), from the antiphons with which the Vespers and the Matins respectively began. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The Oriental mourning song became the Planh, or dirge. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
Mr. PERKINS: We'll see the dirge before this thing is over?. From Wordnik.com. [Elvis Perkins: Out Of The 'Dirge'] Reference
And the vesper dirge is stealing like the chant of cherubim. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
He originally planned it to sound like what he calls a dirge. From Wordnik.com. [Elvis Perkins: Out Of The 'Dirge'] Reference
It certainly looked as if a true prophet was writing that dirge!. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
He moved away and from far down the street his dirge carried faintly. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
He was obeyed, -- he died, it is said, before the dirge was finished. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Like I say, it will … we'll see the dirge before this thing is over. From Wordnik.com. [Elvis Perkins: Out Of The 'Dirge'] Reference
All this, uttered in a low sing-song, is like a sort of funeral dirge. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
And you play this waltz dirge for the band, you feel pretty good about it. From Wordnik.com. [Elvis Perkins: Out Of The 'Dirge'] Reference
The Twitter-verse also appeared split regarding Jewel's accompanying dirge. From Wordnik.com. [Roush Review: The Emmy Awards] Reference
Then follows one of the finest of all Beddoes 'songs, a dirge, beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
The solemn pom-pom-pom of the funeral dirge for the Mother of the heir to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of the Empire State] Reference
I ruminate to my brother's quiet dirge like humming of an advertiser's jingle. From Wordnik.com. [s a compromising situation...] Reference
INSKEEP: And then tell me how you went about presenting this dirge to your band. From Wordnik.com. [Elvis Perkins: Out Of The 'Dirge'] Reference
There will be no public ceremony, no funeral dirge, and but few weeping mourners. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The relentless drilling of the dirge-like background music here made my teeth ache. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Robinson: A Survivor's Guide to Watching The American] Reference
A hollow heart will sound its dirge of woe through the most perfectly organized form. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Again came the roaring sound, desolate, terrible, at once a call to arms and a funeral dirge. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
Wakened by the dirge of the death-singers the people rise and pray for the souls of the departed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
I'd never refused to hold your hand … It actually started as a very slow sort of dirge of a waltz. From Wordnik.com. [Elvis Perkins: Out Of The 'Dirge'] Reference
Of course you can always whip up a chilling dirge about the internet, the economy, the death of print. From Wordnik.com. [ABCs will prompt newspaper gloom – but appetite for print is still out there] Reference
(Soundbite of song, "Doomsday") INSKEEP: Did you feel like you'd lost something in giving up the dirge?. From Wordnik.com. [Elvis Perkins: Out Of The 'Dirge'] Reference
Here their funeral dirge will never cease; the requiem of the ocean's surge will ever sound as if saying. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
The order of service included a dirge, a prayer, the reading of his second inaugural address, and an oration. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
When the soul of another is depressed, and a funeral dirge is wailing, love's kindred chords wail in sad communion. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The wail through the air and the soft "plop" of the gas shells seemed attuned to the dirge-like soughing of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
It is from the latter of these two words that the English term dirge is derived. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
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