death song
Example Sentences
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She quotes the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, who survived Sand Creek but still sang a death song: “Nothing lives long, Only the earth and the mountains.”
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022
Then in succession it gives the dulcet imitation of an Indian death song, a menagerie on a stampede, and a country school at recess, and ends with a swan song that makes your hair rise.
From Slate • May 3, 2020
Buliard is struck by a death song that begins: Say, tell me now, was life so nice on earth?
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the lament sung at a funeral—a death song.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
Famed as a poet, his death song was one of the best he had ever composed, and it praised Erik's valor in all the full, wild strains of the northern verse.
From Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. by Morris, Charles
