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But yet," her voice suddenly changed, a note of plaintive force filled it--"I have learned much this hour--more than I ever knew. [11]
The air was very still, and a few of the words of the droll, plaintive ditty came to us. [11]
Her voice seemed to ache with the plaintive depth of the song, and the soft night filled its soul with melody. [11]
For other people there was facetiousness in the last line of my posters, but to me it was plaintive with a pang when I wrote it: "Doors open at 7 1/2. [5]
She so bewitched them with her plaintive songs and her wonderful beauty that they forgot everything else to gaze up at her, and so they presently drifted among the broken reefs and were lost. [5]
There are passages that I have heard before, plaintive, full of some hidden meaning, as if they were gasping for words to interpret them. [6]
And a plaintive, sweet peeping came from the coverts. [13]
The hammer that struck the bell of his voice was the hammer of memory, and if it was plaintive it also was clear, and it was also vibrant with the silver of lost hopes. [11]
Then out of some remote corner of that vast place there rose a plaintive voice, and in tones most tender and sweet and rich came floating through that enchanted hush our poor old simple song "L'Arbre Fee Bourlemont! [5]
Pride; but not so plaintive, of course. [11]
Gorges echoed as she passed by, Wild fowl rose with a plaintive cry; On she sped; and the white steel rang-- "Save him--save him for her! [11]
But he was quickly reassured when she turned her gaze on him; and if, in alarm, he uttered a plaintive cry, she bounded to him at once, and, with every demonstration of affection, licked his mottled skin till it shone again. [4]
Long after they put out to sea again she could still hear the affrighted cry of the peasants from the cliff-or was it only the plaintive echo of her own thoughts? [11]
Over the plaintive pink and golden glow of sunset was slowly being drawn a pervasive silver veil of moonlight. [11]
At last one phrase kept repeating itself to her like some plaintive refrain, torturing in its mournful suggestion. [11]
The masquerade was over; and again, through the darkness, rose the plaintive "All's well! [11]
The bird pours out its song unheard and unheeded; but, in time, hunger and thirst assail the creature, and its song grows plaintive and feeble and finally ceases--the bird dies. [5]
The plaintive voice on a high fierce key, "Scat, you devils"--and a racket as of flying missiles. [5]
The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd. [2]
Nevertheless when one of a pair in a state of nature has been shot, the survivor has been heard for days afterwards uttering a plaintive call; and Mr. St. John gives various facts proving the attachment of mated birds. [1]
No plaintive sounds, no monotonous murmurs, no shutting of windows and doors at strange hours, as if something or somebody were coming in or going out, or there was something to be hidden in those dark mahogany presses. [6]
Could anything be more plaintive than that, without requiring further concessions of grammar? [5]
The movements I mention are less frequent, but I often hear the plaintive cry,--I observe that it is rarely laughing of late;--I never have detected one articulate word, but I never heard such tones from anything but a human voice. [6]
Now it was mastered by the dreams he had dreamed of the East: the desert skies, high and clear and burning, the desert sunsets, plaintive and peaceful and unvaried--one lovely diffusion, in which day dies without splendour and in a glow of pain. [11]
But Phelps's voice is not seldom plaintive, as if touched by the dreamy sadness of the woods themselves. [4]
As he mellowed into his plaintive history his tears dripped upon the lantern in his lap, and I cried, too, from sympathy. [5]
As he stood gazing reflectively into the sunset, a strange, plaintive, birdlike note pierced the still evening air. [11]
But after the exclamation of surprise that had escaped from Vereshchagin he uttered a plaintive cry of pain, and that cry was fatal. [2]
He was lying, comfortably pillowed, on a sofa, listening to the plaintive Miserere of the bleak March winds and the muffled sound of tramping feet in the street below for it was about six in the evening, and New York was going home from work. [5]
His plaintive minor chant evoked, one knew not how, the flavour of that age-long history of oppression and wrong these were now determined to avenge. [9]
From the tents came now loud angry cries and now plaintive groans. [2]
Five years dragged by, and still, every night at midnight, the plaintive tones floated out over the silent land, while the distant boatmen and peasants thrust their fingers into their ears and shuddered out a prayer. [5]
It is the burden of the plaintive songs of all these sweet albino-poets. [6]
One night I awoke with the sweat starting from my brow, trying to collect my senses, and I lay on my blanket listening to such plaintive and heart-rending cries as I had never known. [9]
A plaintive complacency, a little righteous austerity, and an agreeable expression of hunger made the Attorney-General a figure in godly contrast to the prisoner awaiting his doom in the iron cage opposite. [11]
He remarks (p. 33) that, "the captured flies utter a peculiar plaintive note, and that this sound causes other flies to disappear. [1]

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