You will not forget me," she said in her strangely lilting voice.
After another eternity I wondered if I had really heard Dallisa's lilting croon or whether it was a nightmare born of feverish pain: Plead with me.
She said in her lilting voice, "Take care not to sever the tendons, or his hands would be paralyzed and he may claim we have broken our compact.
A voice that had in it sweet, lilting notes, like the voice of a laughing child, spoke his name.
It was an engaging voice--a voice with soft, lilting notes in it--the voice of a child.
The lilting tune was sung lustily while the supposed victim in the center, a handsome lad of sixteen with bold, black eyes and dark curls, surveyed the girls, big and little, with an evident enjoyment of his privileges.
Chicken Little was in a pulsing state of excitement that evening as she listened to the pretty, lilting music and watched gorgeously clad young people, many of whom she recognized, moving demurely about the little stage.
Garth told his news in the living room where the family had been listening to the music of Wanda's lilting young voice with her mother's piano accompaniment when he came in.
Then a sound from over the ridge through the trees, the sound of singing, a young voice lilting wordlessly in enraptured gladness that life was so bright this morning.
But there was no hostility in the soft, lilting voice that addressed him, and Valkan was smiling.
Tarlac watched the Traiti stow the suit before turning to the commando squad with a claw-extending gesture, to say something in a tonal language that told the Ranger where the lilting Traiti version of Imperial English came from.
It was deep, not unexpectedly, but it was also soft, carrying an almost lilting intonation that made his Imperial English oddly attractive.
There was a lilting little chorus that even Sylvia soon could sing, and the girl-teacher smiled as she glanced down at her.
When Dixie, as usual, led the opening song, her voice rang out with lilting joyousness, and when she stood up to read, Miss Bayley was charmed with the expression with which she interpreted the little story.
The flowing or lilting melody of this and the following songs is quite remarkable.
It does not reach the poetic heights of a few of his other poems, but it is perfectly clear, and has a pleasant lilting movement.
He adjusted his eye glasses several times, lilting them with the most pronounced sarcastic lilt of which he was capable.
To the poor, ignorant ones around him he was the mouth-piece of the mill, and they feared him even more than they did Kingsley himself, Kingsley with his ironical ways and lilting eye-glasses.
Here follows a freer flow of the jolly lilting tune, blending with the sterner descending lines.
Its brief verse is answered by a fervent conclusive line where soon the old lilting refrain appears with new tricks and a big celebration of its own and then of the whole madrigal of martial melody.
At a climactic height the horns, with clumsy grace, blare forth the main lilting phrase.
Once more she drifted into the lullaby, crooning it very softly in her lilting young voice: "Sleep, baby, sleep.
The poetry of the earlier period, soft and lilting and romantic, no longer satisfied.
There is beauty in all of her prose, a half-felt tripping of feet often, a lilting rhythm as unpremeditated as a bird-song, swift turns of expression that are near to poetry.
Wait until I can do it--" her lips pursed themselves delicately and a second later the lilting trill of her lovely whistle took up the refrain of Maitre Guedron's song.
The tune was a popular air of the day, lilting and free.
Accompanying his knock, rather than following it, came the sound of the swishing of dainty drapery overhead; a sound which instantly became more audible, and mingled with it was the musical hum of a lilting tune.
Jean turned about with a cry, and at the minute a bagpipe's liltingcame over the glassy bay from Stron Point.
Two score of lilting steps to the bumside, a slow wheel on a brogue-heel, and then back with the sun-glint on the buckles of his belt.
Patsy jerked a thumb to where Art was lilting the open bars of "The Wind that shakes the Barley": "Wouldn't the boy help?
Behind them Art was ranging aimlessly, and lilting snatches of song.
So through unimagined ways went that song, lifting its theme in terms that she did not comprehend; but it was not a bird that sang to her, it was her own heart making its obscure music and lilting its secret, wild lyrics in the dawn.
By and by, sure enough, he came lilting along in a self-satisfied way, and went right into the water for a good long draught.
When again I looked upon him death had wrapped him in its chill, Songs were silenced now forever and the lilting lips were still.
Anon came Kurban Sahib, lilting a little in his step, which sign I knew, and he said, "We are born in a fortunate hour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lilting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
