Walkyrie
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Wotan sends Brünnhilde, his favorite Walkyrie, to turn the fight for Hunding.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two years later the music to the Walkyrie was all done, and Siegfried begun.
From Stories of the Wagner Opera by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
Flowers only can understand flower-speech, the stars the language of the spheres, one pillar of Memnon answers another, the dead comprehend the Walkyrie, sleep-walkers the speech of the moon—lovers only the language of love.
From Timar's Two Worlds by Jókai, Mór
Siegmund has just pressed a tender kiss upon Sieglinde's fair forehead, when Brunhilde, the Walkyrie, suddenly appears before him, and solemnly warns him of his coming defeat and death.
From Stories of the Wagner Opera by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
"I will serve at the banquet," says the Walkyrie, "but only him who, in the trial of deadly combat, has shown himself a hero."
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret
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