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paean
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  • There were no services, no songs, no paeans of praise to please the god.†  (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)
  • Meanwhile, ye sons of Greece, in triumph bring The corpse of Hector, and your paeans sing.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • Now to the ships return we, sons of Greece, Glad paeans singing!†  (source)
  • For the fast song, a paean to the rising sun (because they have performed through.†  (source)
  • All day they sought the favour of the God, The glorious paeans chanting, and the praise Of Phoebus: he, well pleas'd, the strain receiv'd But when the sun was set, and shades of night O'erspread the sky, upon the sandy beach Close to their ship they laid them down to rest.†  (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)
  • When now the rage of hunger was repress'd, With pure libations they conclude the feast; The youths with wine the copious goblets crown'd, And, pleased, dispense the flowing bowls around;(69) With hymns divine the joyous banquet ends, The paeans lengthen'd till the sun descends: The Greeks, restored, the grateful notes prolong; Apollo listens, and approves the song.†  (source)
  • The organ music swelled now into a triumphant paean, filling with its exultant melody that vast darkness of the church.†  (source)
  • Then they hurried through the little town and it all flashed upon his consciousness to a mighty paean of emotion.... "Oh, good Lord!†  (source)
  • In his eyes was a desire to chant a paean.†  (source)
  • [Raising a paean of squalid triumph] I done you†  (source)
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