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Definition of Dirgelike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirgelike
Literary usage of Dirgelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"In the wide-open ears of Jacob his father's words sounded like a doom, giving an
awful finish to the dirgelike effect of the whole announcement. ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
"... voice lifted in one of them sad slumber songs of the South Seas—creepy and
dirgelike and beautiful. My girl could sing circles around a sky lark. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"AJT- tated, confounded, and awe-struck n the melancholy and dirgelike music.
I - sat down on a chair—and looked wit!. a ghostly face towards his ¡л': ..."
4. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"... and that on his untimely death he was honoured by the Egyptians with these
dirgelike strains, and in this way they got their first and only melody. 80. ..."
5. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"... joyous trochees, and many birdlike or dirgelike short measures, form, in their
succession and interwoven recurrence, a complete musical fabric ..."
6. The English Review (1844)
"... that doth make thee tune Thy voice to dirgelike sorrows, fraught with death.
Where it will end 1 know not. Cass. Yea, but the oracle no more shall be As ..."
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