The "lilt" of Tannahill's finest verse is even more charming. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Not that hearing her voice isn't always a melody for me, but there was a far more pronounced "lilt" in her greeting. From Wordnik.com. [Stephanie Gertler: Hearts And Souls: A Family Deals With Grief] Reference
That will help you fit the triplet into the 'lilt' rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
There’s always a kind of lilt to the way that’s said that makes it seem a thing of sound that doesn’t involve an actual thought. From Wordnik.com. [Drinking Beer on Sunday Evening | clusterflock] Reference
A bird's song recalled the lilt of her laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
He expresses his love for the lilt of the islands. From Wordnik.com. [Powell On The March] Reference
He was as much touched by that homely lilt as myself. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
There's a wistful and amused lilt to his conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Clinton Up Close] Reference
"" Ah, youth, '' he intoned, with a Shakespearean lilt. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, Airhead] Reference
"At four o'clock, sir," with a charming lilt of the head. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference
The sparkle came back to Celia's eyes and the lilt to her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
A cheery and comforting lilt, indeed, with its promise of plenty. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
Was that indeed the end of it all, of the hope, the lilt, the glory?. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
And the lilt of joy in her voice made me think shame to be a man at all. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
He could not be mistaken; her voice held the singing lilt of the Foanna. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
"Well," said Betty, a joyous lilt to her voice that the girls knew well. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
They had no deeper significance to her than the lilt of a world-old song. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
It was like a lilt of fairies 'merriment in the moonlit revels of Far Away!. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
Then he adjusted his glasses again with agitated nervous attempts at a lilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Then he adjusted them with a peculiar lilt -- it was his way of being ironical. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
LANGUAGE, Traiti: A tonal language that gives their Imperial English a pleasant lilt. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
"Brides?" the voice echoed, with a lilt of girlish laughter running through the words. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
No operatic rubbish, but genuine Irish music, with the right lilt and the right sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
And then the lilt of that new marching song to which Tommy Atkins has given immortality. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters] Reference
She found herself drawn to the graceful lilt of the man's tongue, the fluidity of his gestures. From Wordnik.com. [Jew] Reference
"Back, my bonny horse," said he to Chieftain, and there was a kind of joyous lilt in his voice. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Jean found herself, head up and shoulders swaying, responding to the lilt and swing of the air. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
He was now the Army's child indeed, stepping round the world to a lilt of the bagpipes, with the. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
They tell no story, they are long, they have not, like poetry, a lilt or rhythm to carry one on. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
"Bonjour," the young saleswoman says, as I enter the empty shop, her French voice a rhythmic lilt. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Sisko Carter: Why French Women Wear Scarves] Reference
I also loved Garakayi's voice -- it has a wonderful mellow lilt to it, when he sings and when he speaks. From Wordnik.com. [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference
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