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- composed a rousing paean to joy
- Her essay is a paean to mothers.
- …vibe, and then I was thinking of abuse and prostitution, and then I was thinking of Oliver! my favorite musical as a child, and the doomed hooker Nancy, who loved her violent man right until he killed her, and then I was wondering why my feminist mother and I ever watched Oliver! considering "As Long as He Needs Me" is basically a lilting paean to domestic violence, and then I was thinking that Diary Amy was also killed by her man, she was actually a lot like— "I'm Nancy," I say.† (source)
- The Photograph will forever inspire paeans to glory and valor among those who see the figures as immortals.† (source)
- For the fast song, a paean to the rising sun (because they have performed through. the night), they gather their families about them.† (source)
- There were no services, no songs, no paeans of praise to please the god.† (source)
- Angeline surpassed herself on this occasion, lifting her voice in such an untrammeled paean of longing that I wished there were some way I could volunteer to look after the kids while she went off with George.† (source)
- There, far, far among thick-wooded landmarks, On this night, so vernal and so white, The nightingales roll and trill their paeans, Filling with rumbling the city's wooded limits.† (source)
- The queen's men were singing some paean of praise for red R'hltor, but she could not hear the words above the shrieks.† (source)
- The organ music swelled now into a triumphant paean, filling with its exultant melody that vast darkness of the church.† (source)
- Then, still full of the great echoing paean of Ben Jonson's, he scrawled below it in large trembling letters: "My Shakespeare, rise!† (source)
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- In his eyes was a desire to chant a paean.† (source)
- [Raising a paean of squalid triumph] I done you.† (source)
- Then they hurried through the little town and it all flashed upon his consciousness to a mighty paean of emotion….† (source)
- Fascinated, Amory watched each rank of linked arms as it came abreast, the faces indistinct above the polo shirts, the voices blent in a paean of triumph—and then the procession passed through shadowy Campbell Arch, and the voices grew fainter as it wound eastward over the campus.† (source)
- The song of groping—"My way's cloudy"—begins "The Meaning of Progress"; the ninth is the song of this chapter—"Wrestlin' Jacob, the day is a-breaking,"—a paean of hopeful strife.† (source)
- Paean!† (source)
- The fields around with Io Paean! ring; And peals of shouts applaud the conqu'ring king.† (source)
- For Zeus who hates the braggart's boast Beheld that gold-bespangled host; As at the goal the paean they upraise, He struck them with his forked lightning blaze.† (source)
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