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Finally, fans will be treated to special performance clips by The Dirges, Ty Stone and Taylor Duffy whose music is part of the upcoming soundtrack to Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.
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Mr Government is unsure, but I have my tone deaf friends from CRUDCrafted Rigorous Uber Dirges email him as to how good it is.
Cthulhu Explains it All EliRabett 2010
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Supernatural, including Dirges (pp. 1-122); (ii) Ballads of Sacred
Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick
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Dirges for the great dead became a popular form, in which the spirit of southern song poured itself out.
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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There is much wild and beautiful romance in the diction, but we take the most attractive portion to be the lyrical portion, as the Chants, Dirges, and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 Various
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Dirges, odes, sonnets and elegies frequently appeared in spectacular places about the camp and as Mr. Poynter's highly sympathetic nature led him to eulogize the lowlier and less poetic life of the woodland, the result was frequently of striking originality.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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Dirges were sung and the deceased was extolled, but when night came the lights were extinguished and the corpse was left alone.
Auld Licht Idyls 1898
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Dirges were sung, and the deceased was extolled, but when night came the lights were extinguished, and the corpse was left alone.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
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Dirges were sung by the wailing women to the accompaniment of musical instruments; offerings were made to the dead, and it is plausible to assume that visits were paid to the graves.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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Dirges, yearning hymns, passionate outpourings in praise of the mighty and beautiful divinity had filled her ear and stirred her soul with an ecstatic thrill, although she knew that they, were the composition of heathen poets and had first been sung to the harmony of lutes by reprobate idolaters.
Serapis — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867
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