An easy lilting stride. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She laughed, softly and with a kind of lilting warmth. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
And her lilting voice reminds one of home and comfort. From Wordnik.com. [What happens when you listen too much] Reference
Marc says in lilting, loving tones he reserves only for her. From Wordnik.com. [Liane Kupferberg Carter: Dizzy Girl] Reference
Till the dear shealing ring with the light-lilting chorus! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Behind him a five-piece band played soft, lilting, Americana. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: Bonnie "Prince" Billy at Rams Head Tavern] Reference
But the song had a pretty little lilting melody, and it went big. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
"You will not forget me," she said in her strangely lilting voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
Nightingales; and lazy ebon negroes, musical as birds, sang lilting. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
Ashe reached for the flap of the fabric and a lilting voice called. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Kingsley himself, Kingsley with his ironical ways and lilting eye-glasses. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Moments later, the Guru announced in a lilting voice, "Atmananda, pleeeez bring.". From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
Beryl had begun a lilting refrain, as though a mother laughed as she sang a lullaby. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Robin] Reference
"Perfect Day," a lilting ballad, ruminates wistfully on the meaning of life and love. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Billy Currington, "Enjoy Yourself"] Reference
Suddenly the melody changed to a glad little lilting measure, as sweet as love itself. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
He has a lilting fluency that flowers every now and then into a phrase of golden melody. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
This exchange was pleasant, if not entirely revealing, punctuated with her lilting laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Bialas: A Career in Full Bloom: Ruth Moody Lovingly Tends to The Garden] Reference
You feel the swing of music and love to move your body to the strains of a lilting melody. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
She decided she would go tomorrow, and that tonight she would dance to the lilting music. From Wordnik.com. [The True Hula (excerpt)] Reference
Once more she drifted into the lullaby, crooning it very softly in her lilting young voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
On the third floor, there was music lilting from behind one of the doors. From Wordnik.com. [The Fiend] Reference
Fortunately, Wright's Lincoln is smooth and wiry, and he turns Parks's prose into lilting poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Shorts] Reference
But there was no hostility in the soft, lilting voice that addressed him, and Valkan was smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference
I had spoken a jargon to the girl, but he addressed me in the lilting, sing-song speech of Shainsa. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
In lilting cadences she told me that she had been suffering from bad headaches for the past two weeks. From Wordnik.com. [TECHNOLOGY'S LIMITS] Reference
And at appropriate moments, he slips charmingly into the lilting English spoken by many people in India. From Wordnik.com. [The New Oral Tradition] Reference
His piano is a little out of tune, but the music is sad and lilting with just a touch of grace and humor. From Wordnik.com. [13 Halloweens] Reference
He manages to keep calm as the oddly lilting voice of the automated system guides him through the process. From Wordnik.com. [Blink] Reference
It was lilting, graceful, each syllable like water falling at different levels, at varying mathematical degrees. From Wordnik.com. [The True Hula (excerpt)] Reference
His dead mother haunts the show, her loving words of encouragement transformed into lilting melodies that spur him on. From Wordnik.com. [DANCING HIS WAY OUT] Reference
MICHELE NORRIS, host: Imagine a singer-songwriter with a lilting folk-rock style covering the songs of alternative rockers. From Wordnik.com. [Sun Kil Moon: 'Tiny Cities'] Reference
Speaking in her lilting English accent, she told how much she cared for children and calmly denied ever having harmed Matthew. From Wordnik.com. ['I Didn't Do Anything'] Reference
(Soundbite of song, "I'm a Broken Heart") WAS: The lilting lyricism leavens the downbeat sentiment and all this froth and playfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird and the Bee, Getting Buzz] Reference
Wainwright's quavering, melodramatic voice adds cabaret-style highs to "Poses," while his weary, lilting moments keep the album grounded. From Wordnik.com. [Little Boy Blue] Reference
An Andean folk group contributes on two songs, and we hear the whoops of a village party mixed into the lilting "No Llores" or "Don't Cry.". From Wordnik.com. [Aterciopelados: Optimistic Rock From Colombia] Reference
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