After a dulcet lullaby [Music: (Flute with tremolo of high strings) (New melody in ob.
Throughout is a blending of fugue and of children's romp, anon with the tenderness of lullaby and even the glow of love-song.
Once more the Largo lullaby sings its strain in the minor.
There is almost the sense of lullaby before the sudden plunge to wildest chaos, the only portent being a constant trembling of low strings.
His shaking hand stroked caressingly her soft black hair, and he murmured low lullabywords as if soothing a child.
She was very proud of it, and as she moved it with a light motion of her foot, she hummed a lullaby which had soothed both grandfather and grandchild, for they slept, he sitting in the arm-chair where his wife died.
It sleeps; the rushing of the River Aire singing lullaby to it.
And then he gave an hour to play with his children before a mother's lullaby should put them to sleep.
He could see her pressing the pink bundle of flesh to her heart, singing a lullaby that was a prayer.
Here they found an old man busily engaged in carving a walrus tooth, another sewing mukluks, while a girl was singing a quaint lullaby to a child of two in the corner.
She wondered if her mother was kneeling by her side, whispering some lullaby in her childish ears.
A swallow with jewels aflame on her breast On that straw parlor's ceiling had builded her nest; And she flew in and out all the happy day long, And twittered the soothingest lullaby song.
The very fury of the external turmoil acted as a lullaby to the girl.
The sea sang a lullaby to the reef, and the fresh breeze whispered among the palm fronds--that was all.
It would be interesting to know if Mrs Browning ever heard any one of the many variants of this lullaby before writing her poem "The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus.
Whilst thus thy lullaby I sing, For thee great blessings ripening be; Thine eldest brother is a king, And hath a kingdom bought for thee.
Listen to me, child; beautiful is the lullaby and all the folk are asleep--but thou, no!
Here, as in the Piedmontese song, the "shadow of the cross" makes its presence distinctly felt, whereas in the Latin lullaby it is wholly absent.
I ought to add that this same murderous lullaby is nevertheless brimful of protestations of affection and compliments; the child is told that his eyes are the finest imaginable, his cheeks two roses, his countenance like the moon's.
Lullaby (for thou art bound Pain to know, And want and woe), Mid the cattle standing round.
The work contains a charming lullaby sung by Vera to her little daughter.
And behold, the long-lost mother Caught her wailing child and nursed her, Sang a lullaby and nursed her.
Her portrait was painted by a great German, her bust was modelled by a great Frenchman, the words of a little lullaby she had composed for her baby girl was set to music and made famous through Europe by a great Italian.
The door of the studio was slightly ajar, and the sound of a singularly sweet voice crooning out a lullaby was plainly audible.
A comfortable chair, and moon-light, and a German lullaby are soporific influences.
As for Elsie herself, the lullaby didn't prove a lullaby at all, and, as usual these days, the girl cried herself to sleep.
How happily would she go to sleep tonight to the music of the lullaby of the thought: "Another week at the Merry Nickel, another week at the Merry Nickel!
As softly they fall on the roof o'er our heads, O, the sleep-haunted rapture theirlullaby sheds!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lullaby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
