The feelings of the young seemed to issue and mingle in sympathy, with a freedom naturally delightful to my peculiar nature, and the triumphant strains of music excited my pulses.
The windows of the Parish Church were darkened with thick black curtains, the altar was heavily draped, the strains of the mournful Mass of the Dead swayed to the responses of a sorrowing people.
The strains of a violin in the farm-house struck his ear.
As he spoke, there was another peal of infernal laughter, and the strains of music grew louder each moment.
It seemed like strains of unearthly music, mixed with shrieks and groans as of tortured spirits, accompanied by peals of such laughter as might be supposed to proceed, from demons.
They were in the East Room again, with the stars and stripes, the moving glitter of gold, the loud hum mingled with the distant strains of martial music.
In the night they were awakened by strains of sweet music and, looking out, they saw a band of children in shining garments approaching the house.
But, as Melchoir entered he heard strains from the organ, and a chorus of voices was singing an anthem beginning with the words, "Te Deum Laudamus.
The strains of solemn music from the organ blended with the voices of priests chanting the service.
Strains of music from the great organ in the distance floated out upon the air.
The violin was discoursing its enchanting strains in the farther apartment, and there were not above a dozen persons in the one, where slumbered the piano and guitar.
I love to fancy, and feel him present, and sing to him the strains which gush from my soul at his coming.
They represented every shade of mixture among the three strains of Portuguese, Indian, and negro, and no color-line was drawn by the pure bloods of any of the three races.
These triumphant strains were continued with little intermission during the whole of the steep ascent, in spite of the intense heat of the sun, which shot forth with greater fervour than ever.
Choristers continued to beguile the tedious march with their rambling stanzas, and to pour out shrill strains of melody like the notes of the wild bird.
But the voice of lamentation succeeded to the strains of joy.
Arrived within sight of the capital, strains of martial music burst from the centre division, when every throat throughout the vast army joined in one deafening chorus.
No misty breathing strains thy nostril; Thine eye shines blue and cold; Yet mounting up our airy pathway I see thy hoofs of gold.
It reminded one of the strains of Beranger; in other passages of the mock-heroic poem of Boileau.
Twas thus with me when Bordeaux deigned To listen to my rustic song: Whose music praise and honour gain'd More than to rural strains belong.
From the village were heard the distant sounds of revelry, mixed occasionally with loud laughter, sometimes broken by screams, and sometimes by wild strains of distant music.
Troupes of dancing-girls follow, and the moments fly swiftly to the twinkling of dainty feet, the gliding and posturing of supple bodies, and the strains of sensuous music.
And thus it was that, without any consultation of her heart, Olympe's hand was formally given to Prince Eugene de Savoie, Comte de Soissons, a man in whose veins flowed the Royal strains of Savoy and France.
The failure of the great Southern Confederacy to secure recognition in Europe will doubtless provoke sad strains from the bards of that unfortunate 'empire.
At half past 2 o'clock Washington street in the vicinity of the City Hall was crowded with a large number of people who were listening to the fine strains of music that the Ferguson band were discoursing.
Often it has been subjected to strains under which it has broken, and has been re-cemented with little displacement of the parts.
At that moment, the strainsof a band playing at the club floated in distinctly.
When he has gone the girl strains her eyes after him in grief, and wonders what the world is to be to her now that he she loved is going far away, and never knew of her love.
In the evening we heard them in the billiard-room below lifting their voices in the lays of our college muse, and waking to ecstasy the living piano in the strains of our national ragtime.
Suggestive too of his oncoming passion for Devonshire and Western England are strains of exquisite landscape music scattered at random through these pages.
Three chief strains are subtly interblended in the composition.
Faint strains of the resumed chorus drifted back to her.
He was an arch sentimentalist and had followed a career of determined motherhood, bringing into the world litter after litter of puppies, exhibiting all the strains then current in Newbern.
The clear, croupy cough of the steamer was echoed back in prolonged asthmatic strains from the dark woods lining the river, like an army of cowled gigantic monks come from their cells to see a steamboat.
Be as in former days, Swamp Doctor, joyful at heart--thou hast sung in strains as wild as that winsome bird's!
They remained standing, rooted to the spot by the enchanting strains which poured from the organ, until Wolfgang, happening to espy them, brought his voluntary to a close and crept meekly down from his perch.
In the scientific strains it seems that the power of original thought correlates with a feminine type that is certainly not beautiful.
From time to time this specialization has increased until now we have as manystrains of inheritance as there are groups of useful characteristics known to be hereditary.
Then do you mean," I asked in amazement, "that the highest intellectual strains have servant blood in them?
So two strains were established, the one for the production of the intellectual workers, and the other for producing manual workers.
It might interest you to know," continued Zimmern, "that we use this servant strain in outcrossing with other strains when they show a tendency to decline in the virtue of obedience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
