Dances and Io-Paeans too Unto the Roman Faith are due, O Savior Titus, and to you.
From prison cells poured forth paeans of praise that caused princes to kiss the cross.
Such is the church in which I hope one day to see the whole world gathered--a church whose paeans of praise to the great God would drown dogmatic dialecties as the swelling notes of an organ drown the fretful complaining of a child.
Honour's bright dome, on lasting columns reared, Nor envy rusts, nor rolling years consume; Loud Paeans echoing round the roof are heard And clouds of incense all the void perfume.
They did not even sing Paeans in honour of Apollo, or observe any of the solemnities usual at other sacrifices.
Paeans were the hymns chanted in his honour, and this was the war cry he shouted in his onset against the serpent Python.
Let the majestic paeans heavenward sent, Be with united voice of Britain blent; Like measured thunders the grand anthem swell, A nation's fervent gratitude to tell.
With hymns divine the joyous banquet ends, The Paeans lengthened till the sun descends.
Paeans were solemn songs, praying either for the averting of evil and for rescue, or giving thanks for help vouchsafed.
Meanwhile, ye sons of Greece, in triumph bring The corpse of Hector, and your paeans sing.
His curses are overtopped by St. Quentin's paeans of victory: "I told you I'd seen them come this way.
Aunt Jane wept very much, and handed me Paeans of Passion with the request that she might never see it again.
Meanwhile Mr. Tubbs sat at the feet of Aunt Jane, reading aloud from a volume entitled Paeans of Passion, by a celebrated lady lyric poet of our own land.
For these latter the one or two of their fellow men who have become millionaires by their wills may properly raise memorial churches, and stained windows, and chimes of bells; but such wills have earned no paeans of public gratitude.
We are loyal, and patriotic, and honest only when we sing paeans to the Administration and its favorites.
Although these songs were a condensed extract of the whole anti-slavery constitution and by-laws, yet the mob was as peaceful under these paeans to liberty as a child under the influence of an anodyne.
At Port Byron a generous sprinkling of cayenne pepper on the stove soon cut short all constitutional arguments and paeans to liberty.
Not content with elevating their own idol with paeans and thanksgiving, before the gaze of a bedinned public, they persisted in shouting out their scorn and contempt at the pretensions of their unhappy neighbour.
We do not lament for them so much as hold them in eternal memory; our very songs of sorrow become paeans of praise.
Mere impersonation and invocation in apostrophe and paeans are not necessarily worship.
Thus this psalmist breaks into anticipatory paeans of victory.
The Exodus is recalled as the progress of a king at the head of his hosts, and oldpaeans re-echo.
The mighty deliverance of which the triumph throbs through this trilogy of paeans of victory was God's coming down.
A crime for centuries disused becomes again national, consecrated by paeansof the Roman populace, who tramp the streets chanting-- "Blessings on the hand That laid the tyrant low.
Now to the ships return we, sons of Greece, Glad paeans singing!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paeans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
