1 She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away like a nightingale of the woods.
2 The child went singing away, following up the current of the brook, and striving to mingle a more lightsome cadence with its melancholy voice.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVI. A FOREST WALK 3 The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalizes itself, so to speak.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 4 And all hearts were touched and turned to her voice, shining like a young star, shining clearer as the voice intoned the proparoxytone and more faintly as the cadence died.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 5 Then he neighed three or four times, but in so different a cadence, that I almost began to think he was speaking to himself, in some language of his own.
6 As the dying cadence of his strains was falling on the ears of the latter, he started aside at hearing them repeated behind him, in a voice half human and half sepulchral.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 7 Candide was whipped in cadence while they were singing; the Biscayner, and the two men who had refused to eat bacon, were burnt; and Pangloss was hanged, though that was not the custom.
8 Then the soft melody and mighty cadences of Negro song fluttered and thundered.
9 Then there is the song of many waters, "Roll, Jordan, roll," a mighty chorus with minor cadences.
10 The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm confidence.
11 At one or two favourite cadences, he threw in a little assistance of his own, where the knight's voice seemed unable to carry the air so high as his worshipful taste approved.