dirge

They did not yet ring a dirge for the dead.

Israel is not a dirge - but a country; how happy the thought.

He brought Dirge to them, holding the long black blade up.

There was a pause, a long one, in which only the dirge played through.

To stand with your face to the wind and hear the dirge of a dying world?

And so I let loose with one of my famous dirges.

Then with momentum established, it would fall back into another dirge.

And he strode away toward the village, taking up the dirge again.

Except for the dirge of that stream there was no sound.

It was Maggie who broke its hold, her voice a dirge.

The sound of her renewed weeping was like a dirge.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

A wail went through the hall from the others like a dirge.

"Then sound as if you believed it, not like a funeral dirge!"

A dirge written by him has been preserved in manuscript.

The original meaning of dirge in English referred to this office.

When you have a funeral procession, the people are doing more of a slow dirge.

The processional music was deep and slow, like a dirge.

At the last concert, I actually played a dirge - for myself."

But these days the fiddle music sounds more like a funeral dirge.

Meanwhile, the sound of a dirge swells in from behind the village.

He went down the steps slowly while the choir sang a dirge.

It was a final stoic dirge, this time for the band itself.

The chanting was no longer some manner of martial dirge.

Dirge can be created from one or more persons.