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It is an aubade, a nocturne of the morn -- if the contradictory phrase be allowed.— Chopin : the Man and His Music
Singing his aubade strain;— The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
He remembered that Alain was supposed to sing an aubade, a dawn song, in the street below to warn and rouse him.— The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
Alas, as is so often the case in life, Lavengro and the reader are only just beginning to realise the beauty and the value of the "bellissima," as the man in black calls her, when she is on the point of sinking beneath our horizon, passing away like the brief music of an aubade.— Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825
_aubade_ from the lawn, and not till breakfast-time did I behold my small friends, who then came into the breakfast-room, one on either side of their mother -- two miniature sailors, exquisitely neat but visibly dejected.— Cecilia de Noël
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