"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Their most popular noble strains are "Boroguu" or "Boronggoru" from Pentecost Island.
- Then, through the raging of the dance came a strong, pure strain of melody, quiet, certain, noble.
- The poet, as he listened, felt that the being and character of Ernest were a nobler strain of poetry than he had ever written.
- Another and a nobler strain must be composed and sung by us.
- The early Sagas are sanguinary and piratical; the later are of a noble strain.
- There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded.
- I do shame To think of what a noble strain you are, And of how coward a spirit.
- Chirp, chirp, I went, nor hoped a nobler strain; But Heaven decreed I should not pipe in vain, For, lo!
- Then came alternative rock and its nobler strain, indie rock, with its willfully amateur aesthetic and cheap recording techniques reminiscent of, well, the Shaggs.
- Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty.
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