The hall was cleared, and soon all the guests were breathlessly dancing to the divine lilt of the fiddler's melody.
Perhaps he did not think of anything particularly, but a far-off lilt of a children's game which was played at school, kept iterating and reiterating through his brain, and everything seemed done to that tune.
And the memory of the old lilt brought back other scenes again and he found himself guiding the chair from the shaft side steering it off with his hand at every rhythmic beat of the child song.
If it had only a liltto it itself, it might be middlin'.
He, too, had gone back on the lilt of the tune; back to his own green country, where the man with the fiddle has his kingdom always, and the lads and lasses are his subjects.
He drew the bow lovingly across the strings, and swung into the Irish dance the old, common tune with the little gay lilt to it that grips the heart and makes the feet beat time, and has the power to wake old memories across the years.
We see graceful figures holding one another by the wrist, dancing in a circle around some altar to Dionysus, and singing to the strange lilt of those unequal measures.
The ever recurring lilt of a waltz rhythm will set the feet moving unconsciously, and as the energy of the repetition increases and decreases, so will the involuntary accompanying physical sympathy increase or decrease.
Now she sang something soothing and sad, with a wistful liltin it that died into a low wail.
A woman's heart throbbed in the lilt and broke in the wail.
If these are not the exact horrid words, this is the way they come back to me, giving a lilt to vindictive spud work.
They have a lilt and a lightness which make them live even now when so many literary fashions have passed away.
It may dress in sober iambics if it pleases, but there must be a liltand go to the words to suggest music.
He played a love-lilt, and the flowers sprang up in full bloom from the cold earth, and the dreaming red rosebud opened wide her velvet petals, and all the land seemed full of the loving echoes of the lilt he played.
Are thae some words ye 've learnt by heart, Or a lilt o' dule an' sorrow?
The lovely ease and lilt of her own soul in its motion through the music!
And he seemed to catch the lilt and the timbre of her voice.
Borne in a country basket marketward, Their message is a music spirit-heard, A pebble-hindered lilt and gurgle and run Of tawny singing water in the sun.
He spoke in a broad, slow Scots, with so quaint a lilt in his speech that one seemed to be in an elder time among people of a quieter life and a quainter kindliness.
Her voice had the high lilt and the deep undertones of the Forest.
It is the lilt which men and women hear in the darkening of their days, and sigh for the unforgettable; and love-sick girls get catches of it and play pranks with their lovers.
This is the lilt of the children of the east-coast fishermen when the boats are at sea.
But I question if folk-poetry ever captured a lilt more exquisite than that of the first four lines of "The Gardener" or a sharper note of anguish than that of the last quatrain.
He has struck it rich, and has gone clean daft in the lilt of it.
Not until the lilt of it had a little outworn itself could he bring himself down to any fair-minded consideration of the offer of help.
He sang me a ghazal ere he left--it hath a good lilt to it.
And Birbal as he ran down the stairs again, heard that samelilt of it ringing after him.
Lady Dorothy has a contraltolilt in her voice that is rather pleasing.
The gracefullilt of his voice was peculiarly reminiscent; his smooth brow and silky fair hair were both familiar and elusive.
There is a lilt in all his lines which is marvelous when we consider that he is the first to show us the poetic possibilities of the language.
Yet so it was, and until 1844 our English literature had no other inspiration in old Norse writings than the rude and rugged songs that first lent their lilt to Gray.
Even after reading Professor Kittredge's essay, we cannot understand how Gray could catch the metrical lilt of the Old Norse with only a Latin version to transliterate the parallel Icelandic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lilt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
