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  • Paean!†  (source)
  • The organ music swelled now into a triumphant paean, filling with its exultant melody that vast darkness of the church.†  (source)
  • In his eyes was a desire to chant a paean.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • The Photograph will forever inspire paeans to glory and valor among those who see the figures as immortals.†  (source)
  • [Raising a paean of squalid triumph] I done you†  (source)
  • There were no services, no songs, no paeans of praise to please the god.†  (source)
  • A Eurasian-looking model with black hair and blue eyes delicately stroked her cheek in a paean of self-care.  (source)
    paean = expression of praise
  • 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)
  • The fields around with Io Paean!†  (source)
  • For the fast song, a paean to the rising sun (because they have performed through.†  (source)
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