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Song for the swaddled
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lullaby
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lullaby or lullabye is a soothing song, sung most often to children before sleep. Lullaby or lullabye may also refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ C.; they were sung about in Sumerian lullabies. ▪ It is carried on through the medium of lullabies. ▪ It was a lullaby with simple words and a complex, Oriental-sounding tune. ▪ Penfield got many reports of lullabies and classical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
lullaby \lull"a*by\, n. [From Lull , v. t. ] A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets. --Shak. Hence: Good night; good-by. [Obs.] --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A soothing song to lull children to sleep. vb. (context transitive English) To sing a lullaby to.
Usage examples of lullaby.
Or perhaps it just traces a random resonance, a tone-row association triggered by the accidental conjunction of prepuber repairs thrown at him as of late, of lulla, lullaby.
His gasps became cries, but the lullaby drowned them out, matting his manhood with its nursery lilt.
It soothed him like a lullaby, and at last, his eyelids dropped closed.
These are some of the issues I deal with in Shattered Lullaby, the story of Jessie Douglas and Miguel Valero.
She strummed the strings, thinking of a lullaby she had learned on Zeepangu.
Goodwife knew differently now, and she knew that this dear little seedling also needed that old lullaby to give it the encouragement to take a firm grip on life.
For a moment she remembered how she sang to herself in the spare cubicles at the orphanage, and could almost recall the lullaby she crooned to herself, to keep away the loneliness.
It is quite foolish, but I believe that people sleep more soundly when I leave a lullaby on their pillow.
The healer was B Lullaby, the strawberry blonde was G-minor Valse, the pinto B Clarino, and the blue Titanide now bore the name of G Foxtrot.
Cirocco and Gaby put Bill on a huge bed in the center of the wagon and climbed in after him, along with Lullaby, the Titanide healer.
Cirocco was dumbfounded to see Lullaby hunched over the radar set, shouting orders.
He and Lullaby had worked with the best artisans until he had brass tools he felt he could use.
Cicadas were singing around them, trilling their mechanical trill, and if she listened intently, she could also hear crickets and katydids and, somewhere farther off, the baritone lullaby of frogs.
I grabbed a towel to dry my face, then let her lead me to where Julius lay, awaiting some lullaby to ease him to sleep.
And had I known when Francesca died that I would be singing Julius his final lullaby in a few nights?