The choir sang the threnody at the funeral. From LearnThat.org.
Now I know there are a lot of words that will be used between storied, but threnody is a sufficiently unusual one as to catch my attention. From Wordnik.com. [Random Thoughts] Reference
As written, the diphthongization is a kind of threnody in its own right. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
Ralph Waldo Emerson long ago), a threnody is a song or hymn inspired by the grief of losing someone you love. From Wordnik.com. [BLABBERMOUTH.NET Latest News]
Cake #1 -- immediate threnody chorus came to mind. From Wordnik.com. [Ho Ho Horrors!] Reference
Lulled by the threnody of the tummy-bellies, Yattmur fell asleep. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
The letter to his wife after he reached Washington was a threnody. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
But he preferred to think of it as a song, albeit a one-note threnody. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
Cadfael was motionless, listening, as the quiet voice continued its threnody. From Wordnik.com. [The Potter's Field]
Above her head, Fssa mourned in the eerie sliding notes of Fssireeme threnody. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN rose from behind Ministers, and began to chant his threnody. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference
The moans redoubled, a low threnody in which babbled words were distinguishable. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
Conkling's effort to obtain control of the State Committee provoked this threnody. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Subject: threnody of the tweezermani, a rotten little tribe just east of the midomar. From Wordnik.com. [Nazis Love Jewschool | Jewschool] Reference
Third, and most odd, each book actually used the term (or variation thereof): threnody. From Wordnik.com. [Random Thoughts] Reference
The wind howled its high and lonely threnody through the cables and the suspension bracket. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
The ferns shook and began producing an eerie threnody that was echoed by the boulders in the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
A few words on my Favorites list: threnody, diaphanous, interrobang, synchronic, churl and pynchonian. From Wordnik.com. [Wordie.org : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
The threnody that flowed from the now attuned activator-mind was an unfamiliar one and crude in technique. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
After four more lines of threnody apostrophizing the Atlantic Ocean, the poem concludes with a booming Lowell fanfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry of Heartbreak] Reference
He only understood that the words were an insult that would be the threnody of his death as Harper used the stone to crush his skull. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Striding purposefully and proudly down the corridor, he hissed a happy threnody as he contemplated the first spate of anticipated arrests. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Scales]
Mute arbitress of all thy sad, thy rapturous threnody. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
Another threnody over some prince in the realm of the intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Literature and Other Essays] Reference
I never hated any piece of music as I came to hate that threnody of treason. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 3] Reference
Not the least touching is Luigi's own threnody, which starts upon this note. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Poliziano poured forth his sorrow in a Latin threnody of touching and simple beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Is there any threnody over a death half so unutterably sad as that one jest over a life?. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
Lilly, on the click of the door after him, could not clear her brain of the running threnody of nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
He died in Glasgow in December of the same year, and his memory is pathetically embalmed in Carlyle's threnody. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
Bion's threnody has undoubtedly become a criterion and given the form to some of the more famous "songs of tears". From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
"In Memoriam" is his most characteristic work, distinctly a poem of this century, the great threnody of our language. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
The most famous as well as the most powerful and original of Bion's poems remaining to us is the threnody upon Adonis. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
This cry of the rough man is unexpected, and grandiose as the voice of ancient tragedians chanting the threnody of a hero. From Wordnik.com. [The New Book of Martyrs] Reference
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