Sentence example with the word 'descant'

descant

absolute music, canto, croon, electronic music, harmonization, melodic line, pipe, score, string orchestra, tremolo, work

Definition n. a decorative musical accompaniment

Last update: October 28, 2015


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She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased.   [Please select]

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Richie, admiring, descanted on that man's glorious voice.   [Please select]

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He descanted upon the perils to liberty involved in the course they were pursuing.   [Please select]

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Meadowsweet would descant on the elegancies of her drawing-room.   [Please select]

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I need not descant upon the evils and dangers of the situation.   [Please select]

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She plucked a spray of the spreading dogbane, but only that she might descant upon it to Sylvia; it was a crime, Mrs.   [Please select]

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Perhaps she was thinking of her last interview with him, when she descanted at length on that superfluity of naughtiness and Biblical pedantry which, she asserted, made Scottish ministers preach from out-of-the-way texts.   [Please select]

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