All 5 Uses

refrain
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Sweet Far Thing
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My heart beats its refrain: Don't look behind you; don't stop; run, run, run.†
Chpt 1
It rushes through my veins with a fierce, pulsing refrain: You are alone, alone, alone.†
Chpt 3
Underneath it all, I hear a terrible refrain scratching itself into my soul: "Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice..."†
Chpt 3 *
The sound wraps itself around my every sinew; it pulses in my blood with a new refrain I cannot yet sing but long to.†
Chpt 3
But a refrain beats inside me: Beware the birth of May.†
Chpt 4

Definitions:

(1) (refrain as in: a repeated refrain)
something repeated regularly -- especially a word, phrase, line, or idea repeated in music, poetry, or speech
(2) (refrain as in: refrain from laughing)
to stop oneself from doing something -- especially something tempting, impulsive, or inappropriate
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)