volkslied
Americannoun
plural
volksliedernoun
Etymology
Origin of volkslied
From German
Example Sentences
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Even the human inhabitants do not sing here, and on these melancholy coasts the strain of a volkslied is never heard.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
Some one was striking the preliminary chords of a volkslied on his favorite instrument, a Rhaetian variation of the zither.
From The Princess Virginia by Guipon, Leon
The schoolmaster and young Deyke had hastened out again, and soon the simple but beautiful volkslied of the country commenced.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar
Mr Andrew Lang decides that it is a volkslied, to which, for the version of it illustrated by Cruikshank, Thackeray contributed the notes considered by some to be by Dickens.
From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.
Some tiny trace of memory of the fat Kreutzkammer lingered in her husband's crippled mind—something as confused as the revolving engine's connexion with the German volkslied.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
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