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The German poet Christian Schubart described that key as "the key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing; thus the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key."
Eliot Van Buskirk: Bahrain's Mood Is 'Triumphant' and 'Warlike' According To Listening Habits Eliot Van Buskirk 2011
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The German poet Christian Schubart described that key as "the key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing; thus the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key."
Eliot Van Buskirk: Bahrain's Mood Is 'Triumphant' and 'Warlike' According To Listening Habits Eliot Van Buskirk 2011
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The crash of distant firing was continuous now, and to my right I could hear the whoops and war-cries of men running to join the fight, wherever it was.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Their war-cries have a particularly negative effect on the morale of our men '(To Vima, 1949).
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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From beginning to end, the audience is riveted by the shots of high-energy youth chanting war-cries, wielding AK47s, gang-raping a woman broadcaster, and cruising into towns on jeeps, waving their arms like one many-tentacled monster.
Karin Badt: Child Soldiers on Film: ""Johnny Mad Dog" (II) 2009
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His supposed burial place there was a major site of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, and the Spaniards fighting to drive their Moorish conquerors out of Spain took "Santiago de Compostela!" as one of their chief war-cries.
July 25, James bar-Zebedee bls 2008
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His supposed burial place there was a major site of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, and the Spaniards fighting to drive their Moorish conquerors out of Spain took "Santiago de Compostela!" as one of their chief war-cries.
Archive 2008-07-01 bls 2008
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When, after five minutes they sprung again on their feet, and began to advance rapidly, sounding their horns and crying their war-cries with all their usual ferocity — behold, my lord, the clouds of Heaven opened, shedding on the Confederates the blessed light of the returning sun, while our ranks were still in the gloom of the tempest.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Then they slept till daybreak, when the battle-drums beat to fight and the swords in baldric were dight; and war-cries were cried amain and all mounted their horses of generous strain and drew out into the field, filling every wide place and hill and plain.
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We were greeted on all sides, and escorted in triumph to the village; the men riding jeríd — that is, firing from horseback at full speed, hanging over by one stirrup with the bridle in their mouths, quivering their long lances in the air, throwing and catching them again at full gallop, yelling and shouting their war-cries.
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