prancing

Example Sentences

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Boredom was there as a resource for daydreaming, trancing out.”

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2013

The FBI uses all the sleuthing techniques of the computer age, yet its most sophisticated device is Will's brain, trancing itself into the psycho's psyche.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's roof star-pictured Nature's ceiling, Where, trancing the rapt spirit's feeling, And God Himself to man revealing, Th' harmonious spheres Make music, though unheard their pealing By mortal ears!

From The Soul of the Indian by Eastman, Charles Alexander

Ever, oh ever thus they sing, But to our soul's dull ear belongs Seldom the trancing sense To list the universal worshiping, Thrill with the glorious theme, and drink its eloquence.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various

Is the poet's song but jingling rhyme?—a play of words in trancing measure?

From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)