cadent

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Our ears attuned to thy sweet lay Catch every flowing, cadent note And bear it ever safe within Our rapturous hearts, which gladly leap Whene'er thy name is called!

From The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse by Jones, Edward Smyth

It cast a cadent spray high to the heavens.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

CADENT.�The third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses are cadent.

From How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer by Sepharial

O, listen to the undersong, The ever old, the ever young; And, far within those cadent pauses, The chorus of the ancient Causes!

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A mighty undertone of mingled sound; The cadent tumult rising from a throng Of urban workers, blending in a song Of greater life that makes the pulses bound.

From The California Birthday Book by Various