That same old plaintive strain.

Beveled rimmed silver charger plates, fresh flowers and the plaintive strains of minor key Indian music also set the mood at the spare, serene storefront at 19 Broadway (516-933-6501).

Over the plaintive strains of a harmonica playing Adeste Fideles Paladin realizes with some satisfaction that he's spent Christmas in Bethlehem, Texas.

Throughout Part 1, "the baritone and bass voices rise up in indecipherable incantations which weave through the plaintive and lyrical strains of an oboe".

From somewhere upstairs came the plaintive strains of violin music.

Beautiful, plaintive strains of music rose into the soft, crimson and gold splashes of sunset.

The Dells' classic, "Stand in My Corner," still stands as perhaps the finest frozen moments of longing ever captured on record, its plaintive strains sending chills into the most unromantic of hearts.

In the living room, her stereo plays the brassy, conga-driven rhythms of salsa and merengue, or the plaintive strains of Puerto Rican aguinaldos.

A few plaintive strains of fado, the distinctly mournful songs of longing that are said to define the collective Portuguese character, waft out of the small neighborhood restaurants geared to tourists.