long metre
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The monotonous story of this battery boy is told in long metre in the Diary here published.
From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd
They were in long metre, and "Old Hundred" would have fitted them grandly.
From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
Of the few suitable six-line long metre part songs, the charming Russian tone-poem of “St. Petersburg” by Dimitri Bortniansky is borrowed for the hymn in some collections, and with excellent effect.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron
He was in one of the country pulpits, and had just announced the second hymn, which was a long metre.
From Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow by Jewell, F.
Nevertheless I always did welcome that last hymn, announced to be sung "with the Doxology," usually in "long metre," to the tune of "Old Hundred."
From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Larcom, Lucy
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