She plucks the rose of poetry from her breast and sets it in the ale-can's spout; clinks with the lid, sings about the clang of the hunting horn, about breeches and old shoes and all manner of stuff.
Will our aged bachelor and that old maiden-lady yonder, who now wander along so young, smile so young, and speak so youthfully to each other, not be a married couple before the cuckoo sings again next year?
Painter, seize thy brush and palette and paint the Maenade--but not her who treads the winebag, whilst her hair flutters in the wind, and she sings ecstatic songs.
Encouraged by them, she boldly raises her proud head aloft towards the stars, and sings of the harmony there above, and here beneath, in man's heart.
One spirit it is that stirs the fathomless deep Of human minds, that shakes the elms in storm, That sings in passionate music, or on warm Still evenings bosoms forth the tufted sleep Of thistle-seeds that wait a travelling wind.
The merry lark, he soars on high, No worldly thought o'ertakes him; He sings aloud to the clear blue sky, And the daylight that awakes him.
And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace, It sings of love that will not cease-- For me it never sings in vain.
Thy note that forth so freely rolls With shrill command the mouse controls; And sings a dirge for dying souls.
With the sun, Oping the dusky eyelids of the South, Till shade and silence waken up as one, And Morning sings with a warm odorous mouth.
Sings while they are getting ready] "Our maids last night, Our pretties last night, They brewed us a brew of the beer last night.
Hark you Mistriss Merri-thought, you that walk upon Adventures, and forsake your Husband, because he sings with never a penny in his purse; what shall I think my self the worse?
He sings incantations and again makes four ceremonial circuits, and smokes as before.
Toward morning all the assistants are struggling hard to overcome somnolence, while the shaman sings and rasps as conscientiously and enthusiastically as ever.
The Bluebird sings and whirs in the trees, and The Male Woodpecker is calling on the llano, Where the fog is rising.
Then the shaman, taking his position in front of the latter, smokes incense of copal over them, and sings of the tail of the grey fox, and other songs.
In the field in which it grows, it sings beautifully, that the Tarahumare may find it.
He sings an incantation and smokes tobacco, though not on the dead, while the widow makes yarn from some cotton, which she has first handed to the shaman.
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs, And the kittle sings songs Full of family glee, While alone with your cup, Like a hermit you sup-- Och hone!
So sings the poet; but whether the wit be great or little, the "thin partition" separating madness from sanity is equally mysterious.
Tannhäuser sings passionately of the joys of burning fleshly desire, though as yet his language is a little veiled.
In a sublime passage Siegfried the dying hero sings of Brünnhilda, and dies.
Wohl kenn' ich Weibes heil'ge Pflichten," she singsto music which is absolutely the finest page in the opera.
Music of unimaginable beauty and freshnesssings of the pleasant earth--the green spring, the nightingale.
Disgusted, Siegfried returns to his resting place, but the bird again engages his attention: itsings of the maiden afar off on the mountain sleeping hedged in by the fire through which he alone can break.
But Walther has composed another song and Sachs has devised a scheme: if Walther sings his song he is certain to be the victor, and Sachs has determined that by hook or by crook he must sing it.
The motion of the sea is kept up, partly with fresh musical material, until at last it all but ceases; the watchman sings his song of the soft south wind and falls asleep.
One sings from a willow-tree just outside my open bedroom window, twenty yards distant; every clear night for a fortnight past has sooth'd me to sleep.
Darkling, deliberate, what sings This wonderful one, alone, at peace?
For since midwinter he has taken up again the tune he singswhen he is longing; he has sung it from boyhood up, and I never hear it without growing pale.
Of course he reads and sings to me every Sunday; but he always seems in a hurry, except now and then, when he overdoes it.
She said, in so gentle a voice that it seemed as though it were the first time he heard it,-- "I often think there is something that sings when it is quite still.
Now I've got to spend my evenings in bed while he sits in the hammock and sings Dearie.
Fresno sings love-songs, and he's got a mint of money.
O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay.
She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking;-- Ah!
O'er rough and smooth she trips along, And never looks behind; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.
The teacher has a pleasant high clear tenor: he stands at one end of the rank and sings a single line of the song.
The bird sings low as the bumble-bee-- It's a long, sweet way across the orchard!
Let us feast now in peace, without any brawling amongst us, and listen to the tale that the minstrel sings to us,' said Telemachus.
And as for me, I know of no greater delight than when men feast together with open hearts, when tables are plentifully spread, when wine-bearers pour out good wine into cups, and when a minstrel sings to them noble songs.
It is no blame to him if he sings of that which is sorrowful to us.
IV My joy its gladness sings In notes His voice awakes,-- A joy no effort can attain, That thrills alike in loss and gain, And when the world forsakes.
She lies surrounded by fields and trees; the daisies grow over her grave, the lark sings above the church; she is at rest and in peace.
Now, it behoves a poet who sings of a horse-race, first to witness one.
The music of the Bells of Shandon follows us far out into the green lanes and winding highways and the motor hums and sings in response as we roll under the grand old trees with their curtains of quivering ivy.
Moore's melodies sound all around one and if a lad or lassie sings in passing it will be of Robin Adair or Aileen Aroon.
The woman of this wretched hovel before us is pitching manure into a cart, and as she stands, barefooted, in the filth above her ankles, sings and talks to me in the liveliest fashion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
