What is "lullabies"

Usage examples of "lullabies".

She began to teach them the strange language that she had used to sing them lullabies when they were younger.

The soft song of the rails reminded him of the lullabies his mother used to sing him when she took him on trips by rail to visit his aunt Itami.

On the night he had named himself king of Gor­haut, the night Aubry had burned, Lisseut sang for Blaise of Gorhaut lullabies of childhood, the ones her mother had sung to her so many years ago.

More precisely, since the night she'd sung Blaise de Garsenc to sleep with lullabies of childhood and then left his room to walk back with Alain to their inn.

She brought it bits of bouquets, she read to it, took it out to breathe fresh air, hidden under her coat, she sang it lullabies and never went to bed without kissing its dirty face and whispering tenderly, “I hope you’ll have a good night, my poor dear.

Scott had married and gone to housekeeping not far off, and John fell into the way of running over for an hour or two of an evening, when his own parlor was empty, and his own wife singing lullabies that seemed to have no end.

His mother's voice, as he recalled it from lullabies she had crooned when he was very small.

A person whose day would be full of nursery teas, changing nappies, singing lullabies and reading stories about happy families of fluffy bunnies.

I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave.