While they sung their lullabies Ripple heard through the roar of wind and water a bitter cry that seemed to call her.
So they set the bells to chiming softly, and all sung lullabies till Eva fell fast asleep, and knew nothing of the journey till she woke in Fairyland.
So, at night when the flowers were asleep, he watered them; sung lullabies to the restless young birds, and tucked the butterflies up under the leaves where no dew could spoil their lovely wings.
When cooling shadows creep along the grass, And mother birds are twittering lullabies To sleepy nestlings, then the south winds pass, And close with fingers soft the pansies' eyes.
The broad earth's pillow is so soft To weary heads, and who can tell But through that sleep sound lullabies Of the white angel, Israfel?
Then the doves nestled hard by and murmured lullabies, and the lullabieswere of the king who watched over and protected even the little birds in their nests.
When night came, old Jans told him the quaint legends of the North, and his mother sang to him the lullabies she had heard when a little child herself in the far-distant East.
I heard the voices of Darkness and mothers' lullabies and sick men's prayers,--and so the years went on.
All day she lay with her cheek on Billy's pillow, holding the battered tin cup and a little worn-out shoe, and it was pitiful to hear her sing the old lullabies as if baby still could hear them.
In the fullness of time the family was cheered by the birth of a son, which the young mother put in a cradle and rocked, singing to it melodious lullabies from the incidents of her own life.
No longer did they take pride in tidy homes and well-tended hair; no longer sing merrily at the stream, or croon lullabies to their babes; all joy was gone from them.
Some would prattle or sing lullabies to their babes, others form little knots and gossip, laughing and jesting without a thought of care.
The most lovely of all sad lullabiesis that written much more than two thousand years ago by Simonides of Ceos.
But the Logudorian lullabies are regular in form, their distinguishing feature being an interjection with an almost classical ring that replaces the fa la nanna of Italy-- Oh!
Most parents do all this and much more; as lullabies would show were there any need for the showing of it.
The most popular of German lullabies is a truly Teutonic mixture of piety, wonder-lore, and homeliness.
There is, however, good reason to think that the idea of composing lullabies for the Virgin belongs to an early period.
Only in one direction did my efforts to obtainlullabies prove fruitless.
I know You hear, like a sweet refrain, Lullabies ever soft and low In the falling summer rain.
Scott had married and gone to housekeeping not far off, and John fell into the way of running over for an hour or two of an evening, when his own parlor was empty, and his own wife singing lullabiesthat seemed to have no end.
All the lullabies of light, All the smiles of play, Romp across the darks of night Into brighest day.
For their carriage it is very civill, smiles being the greatest grace of their mirth; their musick is lullabies to quiet their children, who generally are as quiet as if they had neither spleene or lungs.
He takes the child from Noemi and carries him about, singing lullabies to him.
He studied its first attempts at language, he let it drag at his beard, and sung lullabies to put it to sleep.
Here I used to sit, or rather lie, reading, or writing sometimes, while the others pursued their sport, and enjoying the sound and sight of the sparkling water which ran undermining my bed and singing treacherous lullabies to me the while.
Certainly," the clock chimed in, "and they sing very pretty lullabies and very cunning operettas, too.
Such lullabies are good when baby is sick and nervous, and then the mother is allowed and expected to hold and quiet baby.
Singing lullabies are soothing, but they do no good at first as the baby is deaf.
I heard the voices of Darkness and mothers' lullabies and sick men's prayers--and so the years went on.
And through nights beyond compare Mermaids combing silken hair Sang lullabiesto sooth me to sleep, Tender lullabies to sooth me to sleep.
Well I know You hear, like a sweet refrain, Lullabies ever soft and low In the falling summer rain.
But Boston undoubtedly did once again make popular, at least in America, thelullabies and rhymes repeated for centuries around French or English firesides.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lullabies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
