Sentence Examples

1. The schoolhouse being deserted soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plowboy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.
2. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.
3. They were surrounded by men, women, and children, who sang a kind of lugubrious psalm, interrupted at regular intervals by the tambourines and cymbals while behind them was drawn a car with large wheels, the spokes of which represented serpents entwined with each other.
4. Her father was relaxed in the back seat, eyes half-closed, humming out of tune to Psalm.
5. Once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other but not many words passed between us, for he had grown deaf in his later years, but he occasionally hummed a psalm, which harmonized well enough with my philosophy.
6. Once more he cudgelled the sides of the inflexible Gunpowder, and, shutting his eyes, broke forth with involuntary fervor into a psalm tune.
7. His heart began to sink within him he endeavored to resume his psalm tune, but his parched tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he could not utter a stave.