The shadows have lengthened and the nightbirds have begun their plaintive course. From LearnThat.org.
The daughters of the grouse in plaintive strain. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"What is that kind of plaintive cry that I hear now and then near the stream?". From Wordnik.com. [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference
Akka from Kebnekaise! they cried in plaintive tones. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Nils] Reference
GRACE: In a civil case the plaintive is the one accusing someone of something. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2004] Reference
But he is always cheerful, in spite of his so-called plaintive note, from which he gets one of his names, and always amiable. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
And at once I heard something to which I had paid no attention before: that is, the plaintive whining of the telegraph wires. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
If at times the voice of the song is plaintive, that is no more than a reflection of broken homesteads and sweltering emigrant ships. From Wordnik.com. [The Irish Mind] Reference
Hark that thin plaintive cry!. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
My voice was in what you’d call the plaintive range. From Wordnik.com. [Old Tin Sorrows]
Lerondeau seemed still wrapped in a kind of plaintive stupor. From Wordnik.com. [The New Book of Martyrs] Reference
"Oh, Mufasa!" called a plaintive, mocking voice. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers' small talk in the Afghan war: Geography, grad school and Rocky IV] Reference
"Henri!" she murmured, in a soft, plaintive voice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Max answered with a plaintive yawn, high-pitched. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Wife] Reference
And it does have a sort of plaintive Midwestern sound. From Wordnik.com. ['Modern Sounds,' a Blast from the Past] Reference
And it was just this simple, plaintive, heartbreaking lyric. From Wordnik.com. [Jonatha Brooke: Rediscovering Woody Guthrie] Reference
Sternberg tries a plaintive note of regret but they cut him off. From Wordnik.com. [A Just Corner Of The Bronx] Reference
It's so plaintive and passionate, and yet somehow so morally wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Song of the Week: 'Don't Explain'] Reference
There was a moment of silence, interrupted by a plaintive sigh from. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Her plaintive cry cut to my core, making it impossible for me to run. From Wordnik.com. [Rescued From A Dream] Reference
His "Adagio," plaintive and folklike, shows off individual instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasies For An Orchestra] Reference
What can't be faulted is the plaintive logic running through this book. From Wordnik.com. [What Ever Happened to Moderism? by Gabriel Josipovici] Reference
I mean, Solomon can sing slow plaintive songs and just hammer them home. From Wordnik.com. [Lil Wayne, My Morning Jacket Release New CDs] Reference
Long and low his plaintive solo, for poverty, expatriation, and compassion. From Wordnik.com. [Fragment from an Untelevised Revolution] Reference
She heard the plaintive cry of a lost bird battling its way through the fog. From Wordnik.com. [Perish The Thought] Reference
The man who heard the "plaintive wail" of Nicole Simpson's dog comes to mind. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: Where's the Oil? Here, There, and Everywhere] Reference
Within moments they hear the plaintive wails of Mrs. Trumbull out in the hall. From Wordnik.com. [Desilu, Three Cameras] Reference
The murmur of the room might have been plaintive, not for the smell of caramel. From Wordnik.com. [OF ALL 2,000 YEARS] Reference
They were full of the wounded, whose plaintive moans were heard as they passed. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As Yoakam waits at the control board, Stanley's plaintive mountain tenor spills into the room. From Wordnik.com. [A Beverly Hillbilly] Reference
There was a plaintive, insistent appeal in his music that was like the pleading of a human voice. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
A plaintive melody truncated symphony, An ocean's garbled vomit on the shore, Los Angeles, I'm yours. From Wordnik.com. [Colin Meloy: '10-Dollar Words' For A Cause] Reference
TMI is the plaintive text message from a teen whose friend tells more than anybody really wants to know. From Wordnik.com. [Parsing Data At The Large Hadron Collider] Reference
By the time she sings "If I Loved You," it's not just a plaintive anthem but a challenge, practically a threat. From Wordnik.com. [Grabbing The Brass Ring] Reference
Apparently, Megan Hickey's plaintive singing, the lap steel adds exquisite pain to breakup songs like this one. From Wordnik.com. [Hearing a Lively Dream: Hickey's Last Town Chorus] Reference
(Soundbite of Blue in Green, performed by the late Miles Davis) Mr. TROUPE: And it is aching, and it is plaintive. From Wordnik.com. [A Fresh Look at Miles Davis' 'Blue in Green'] Reference
Besides, he's a lame-duck president, his weakness on full display in last week's plaintive State of the Union address. From Wordnik.com. [Preview Of A Post-U.S. World] Reference
"What moved me is the plaintive cry of the mothers," he told NEWSWEEK, "one of Whom said, 'Please, just make it stop'.". From Wordnik.com. [The Fall Of A Star Reformer] Reference
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