Example Sentences

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Liberty that had hymned her birth in the last century now hymned her destiny in the voices of bard and orator.

From Eben Holden, a tale of the north country by Bacheller, Irving

It is as if poetry had dealt with beans or with bacon and no poet had hymned the more beautiful associations of beans and bacon.

From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott

It had sung loud enough in the streets last Wednesday; it had hymned the procession of his dreams and the loud tumultuous orgy of his passions; and why could he not hear it now?

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May