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  • I knew “Regret & the Grave” was going to be the last song so I wanted to do a sort of “death-dirge” intro for it.

    Buzzgrinder Exclusive Stream: Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor | BUZZGRINDER 2009

  • A sobbing death-dirge from the bosom of a love-lorn child, and the perfume of all the

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • In the course of it he mentioned how he found her standing on the deck of the sinking ship and singing a Norse song, which she had informed him was an ancient death-dirge.

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • As I stood amidst the poisonous dog-mercury, under the hanging ivy and the hart's-tongue ferns, watching the stream glitter on the edge of everlasting darkness, and listening to its death-dirge, I pictured awful shadows issuing from the infernal passage and seizing the terror-stricken ghost of the guilty horseman, of whom I had heard from

    Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • His was a spirit like unto that of Chopin or Shelley, and his death-dirge should have been written by the one and set to music by the other -- brothers doloroso, sent into this rough world unprepared for its buffets, passing away in manhood's morning.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. '

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. Mark Twain 1872

  • On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. '

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. '

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872

  • On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. '

    Life on the Mississippi 1870

  • The duty of the father of the poor youth who had been killed was, for several days after the funeral, to sit alone in his house and chant from sunset till daybreak a death-dirge, or, as it is called, the _Tjerita bari_.

    Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

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