Let the Homeric heart or genius die out of mankind, and from that moment the "Iliad" is but dissonance, the long melodious roll of its echoes becomes a jarring chop of noises.
The starlings struck up their quaver, and sent forth their melodious whistling, whilst they congregated together on the edge of the roof.
No bird moves its wings or raises its twittering in this sorrowful region; only the melodious sighs of the cuckoo are borne thither by the winds at Midsummer.
I feel as if in the wide world there were still but this one voice that responded intelligently to my own; as if the rest were all hearsays, melodious or unmelodious echoes; as if this alone were true and alive.
I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully.
In the twilight the Mohammedans among my Ladakis sang the same melodious hymn I had first heard at Kizil-unkur.
To this day I can hear the melodious splash of the raging surf, and still Tso-mavang lingers in my memory like a fairy tale, a legend, a song.
He found seated beside the mound a lady and a young girl, the latter reading aloud, in a full, melodious voice, the touching tale of the Christian maiden.
Quincy had a fine well-trained tenor voice, while Miss Putnam's mezzo-soprano was full andmelodious and her rendition fully as artistic as that of her companion.
He would hear again the melodious banjo-twanging, the gleeful saengerfests, the happy skylarking of the boys.
Man Jack," he exclaimed, in his strangely melodious voice.
The Emir, in his rapture, summoned his grand vizier to see and hear the marvel; but the mysterious box, affected by the climate and the length of the journey it had undergone, refused to pour forth its melodious treasures.
Have they not a melodious choir of birds to arouse them each morning from their slumbers?
It hardly sings, but, with infinite decorum and sobriety, speaks its melodiousmessage to mankind.
It can be mentioned anywhere, without apology or explanation and there is scarcely a lover of melodious verse who cannot repeat many of its lines and stanzas.
The rhythm, the rhyme and the melodious words of his poetry all show him the passionate lover of music that he was.
But in the neighboring hall a strain of music, proceeding From the accordant strings of Michael's melodious fiddle, Broke up all further speech.
Biographical and Historical: The South has given us two most melodious singers, Poe and Lanier.
The Kafir orange woman mademelodious offers of naartjes and a hammer clinked critically along the wheels.
His eyes, flickering back and forth, showed an almost frantic impatience; poor Mrs. Jakes' melodious noises that smoothed balm upon her soul were evidently making havoc with his nerves.
And when the times are sufficiently quiet to warrant the outlay, a sufficient sum is subscribed to bribe a second-rate Italian company to expose their melodious throats to the baneful influence of the sea breezes.
So they with voices sweet their music poured Melodious on my ear, winning with ease My heart's desire to listen, and by signs I bade my people, instant, set me free.
She is followed by her pack and her nymphs with the melodious names.
I am tall and dark, she is small and fair; her features are so soft that they make mine seem almost hard and stern, and her voice is such a melodious hum that my voice seems harsh beside it.
THIS well-known songster does not soar up to the clouds, like the lark, to make his voice resound through the air; but keeps to the shady groves, which he fills with his melodious notes.
Verse and phrase cannot be better moulded to the melodioussuggestion of beauty.
