balladist
Example Sentences
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This balladist of the Middle West, whose books sell millions of copies, is as representative of the great sentimentality of America, as the Ford car is of our thrift.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Czech balladist describes two chieftains travelling towards the sunrise, with mountains to the right and to the left, on whose summit stands the dawn.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
In the former, the balladist treats, with dramatic fire and fine insight into the springs of action, the theme that 'To be wroth with those we love Doth work like madness in the brain.'
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by John Geddie
The modern balladist attacks the ascetic Middle Age with a shaft from its own quiver.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Or a balladist, man or woman, took the centre, and sang towards our compassionate windows.
From London Films by William Dean Howells
