It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and such plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy air, that it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent valleys of the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns. [Please select]
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The _Goltraighe_, which from its meltive plaintiveness caused weeping, and the _Goltraighe_, which from its merriment caused laughter. [Please select]
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Much of it is in minor keys, and a strain of plaintiveness mingles with all its majesty and power. [Please select]
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It is loud, pervasive, and in quality of tone not unlike our Eastern phoebe, lacking entirely the sweet plaintiveness of our wood-pewee. [Please select]
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She went on, with a deep, wistful note of plaintiveness in her voice, "But _every_thing's so commonplace now." [Please select]
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Indeed, his song is very strong for so small a bird, and unites in a remarkable degree brilliancy and plaintiveness. [Please select]
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Littleton spoke with a tender plaintiveness which betrayed that in his secret soul he was less confident on this score than his words declared, or than he himself supposed. [Please select]
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Still, she used to speak of the little life which had come and gone from hers when she was yet a child herself, with a certain self-possessed plaintiveness born of long habit. [Please select]
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