List of synonyms from "dipsomaniac" to synonyms from "dirtiness"
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Definition of the day : « dirge »
- noun sad song
- Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- But it was only the cold wind from the mountains whistling a dirge.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- It was a dirge, which he was intoning as he bent over the cookstove.
- Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- "Neither did he," he observed, and began to whistle what sounded like a dirge.
- Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- The entrance to the room where the Bella figlia had been succeeded by a dirge, was blocked.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- But my dread of that dirge kept me from accepting these invitations.
- Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
- For us it may be a pæan or it may be a dirge, and only the gods know which!
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- He was obeyed,—he died, it is said, before the dirge was finished.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 » by Mrs. Thomson
- It certainly looked as if a true prophet was writing that dirge!
- Extract from : « The Story of the Cambrian » by C. P. Gasquoine
- That sound was never out of their ears while they lived, and it was the dirge to which they died.
- Extract from : « The Shrieking Pit » by Arthur J. Rees