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- noun Plural form of
monody .
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Examples
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Among these are "monodies" upon _Kynge Edwarde the forthe_, and the _Earle of Northumberlande_.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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"Nothing will come of it," said Robert Bossu resignedly in Hugh Beringar's ear, when the two monodies had declined at last into one bitter threnody.
A River So Long 2010
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"Nothing will come of it," said Robert Bossu resignedly in Hugh Beringar's ear, when the two monodies had declined at last into one bitter threnody.
Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994
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[648] A parody of the pompous addresses to inanimate objects so frequent in the prologues and monodies of Euripides.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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And monodies she took, with sharp Cephisophon for flavour.
The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The light which they sometimes cast on obscure parts of history, and the fine touches of human sensibility, which their eulogies and monodies bespeak, that instruct or elevate the mind, and make the student's heart beat with holier and loftier feelings.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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So much for the design, which is far more congenial to our feelings than the thousand and one sonnets, pointless epigrams, laments, and monodies, which are usually showered from crimson and gold envelopes at this dull season of the year.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) Various
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But now the fountain of thought and tragedy had been readied, whence the waters of sin and suffering spring forth clear and unalloyed in their own deep loneliness, and we hear the gush and the murmur of their stream in such monodies as "The Song of the Shirt," "The Lay of the Laborer," and "The Bridge of Sighs."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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His business was to devise dirges, monodies, laments, _descortz_ in the
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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I had in my collection no fewer than forty-seven monodies and dirges on Stonewall Jackson; some dozens on
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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