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Lilting

adjective

Characterized by a buoyant rhythm. Synonyms: swinging, swingy, tripping. "The flute broke into a light lilting air" , "A swinging pace" , "A graceful swingy walk" , "A tripping singing measure"

Lilt

verb

Articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way.

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"Lilting" Quotes from Famous Books

... A flurried station-master and his staff were receiving the official party. Suddenly someone started the revival hymn, "Shall We Gather at the River?" It was taken up vigorously by the thirty or forty young men who had followed the coffin, and their voices, rising and falling in a familiar lilting melody, filled the station: ...

— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... original, or its defiance of strict metrical law. The normal line is one of four accents: but when this is said, it is almost impossible to arrive at any further generalisation. There is a certain lilting melody in many passages, and the whole play has not unfairly been said to possess the charm of a northern summer night, in which the glimmer of twilight gives place only to the gleam of morning. But ...

— The Feast at Solhoug • Henrik Ibsen

... remembrance of an Uncle David who had brought them toys and sweetmeats in a dim past). Aunt Vivie and Mummie used to get up the most amusing Suffrage meetings in the long, narrow garden behind the house; or they combined forces with Lady Maud Parry, and spoke in lilting contralto or mezzo-soprano (with the compliant tenor or baritone of here and there a captive man) across the two gardens. Or somehow they commandeered the Square Garden on the pretext of a vast Garden Party, at which every one talked ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

... that was lithe and slender and oddly boyish came out to him. A voice that had in it sweet, lilting notes, like the voice of a laughing ...

— Rosa Mundi and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... the private life of my neighbour birds. I heard them wake each other; I saw them make their toilets; and from the town far below my terraced garden the sound of bells came up—church bells, bells of mules and horses beginning work, while their masters sang coplas with a lilting Moorish wail. ...

— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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