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Example sentences for "anthem"

Lexicographically close words:
anteroom; anterooms; anteroposterior; antes; antetype; anthemion; anthems; anther; antherae; antheridia
  1. They all carry elegant aspergilli[80] of box or other wood, and having prayed for a short time in silence, they chant the anthem "They divided my garments etc.

  2. They consist of the anthem Alleluja repeated three times before and after the short psalm Laudate Dominion omnes gentes etc.

  3. Our readers will here call to mind the good old custom still preserved of the maundy of our British Sovereigns, so called from mandatum, the first word of the first anthem sung during, the washing of the feet.

  4. When the sacred college has finished the adoration, the choir having ended the improperii sings the anthem Crucem tuam, the psalm Deus misereatur nostri, the hymn Pange lingua gloriosi lauream certaminis[95] etc.

  5. Spurstow preach before the King a poor dry sermon; but a very good anthem of Captn.

  6. Carter Brooks came to dinner, and I played the National Anthem on the phonograph as we went in to the Dining Room.

  7. Not until our National Anthem is finished, mother," I said in a tone of gentle reproof.

  8. Voice after voice caught up the song, Until its tender passion Rose like an anthem rich and strong,-- Their battle eve confession.

  9. Amidst the storm they sang; And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the Anthem of the Free.

  10. Thence (the chappell in Lent being hung with black, and no anthem sung after sermon, as at other times), to my Lord Sandwich at Sir W.

  11. The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy.

  12. No organ played, no anthem sung; only two of the singing boys preceded the corpse, who sung an ode of Horace, with each a small candle in their hand.

  13. The same marks of respect prescribed for observance during the playing of the National Anthem of the United States shall be shown toward the national anthem of any other country when played upon official occasions.

  14. The playing of the National Anthem as a part of a medley is prohibited in the military service.

  15. When played by an army band, the National Anthem shall be played through without repetition of any part not required to be repeated to make it complete.

  16. National Anthem Noncommissioned officers: Corporal of guard Insignia Precedence Rank Sergeant of guard Oath of enlistment Obedience Observation, line of.

  17. Although she died on November 20, Handel did not receive the King's command to write the anthem until December 7, as George II was strangely undecided in making arrangements for the funeral.

  18. Wedding Anthem for the Prince of Wales (1736).

  19. This opera was the first work that Handel had undertaken after his return to London, but its composition was interrupted by that of the Funeral Anthem for the Queen.

  20. The chapel of the house, a florid Italian baroque building with frescoes in the appropriate style by Italian painters, was opened in 1720, and the anthem for the occasion was no doubt one of Handel's.

  21. He had been taken up by the Marlborough family, and was commissioned to compose the funeral anthem for the burial of the great Duke in June 1722.

  22. And the anthem that the organist played cemented Soapy to the iron fence, for he had known it well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars.

  23. It seemed as if all Nature was sending up a paean of praise for the beneficent rain, and our thoughts took on that same serenity and calm, glad joy and the melody of our hearts joined the universal anthem of praise to the Creator.

  24. But they are pushing on to "victory and peace," and each soldier with aeolian melodies marches to his own accompaniment while the evening breeze softly thrums its anthem of divine love.

  25. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.

  26. The festivity this afternoon was brought to a close by the children singing the National Anthem in the courtyard.

  27. Then he commenced to cover her with his regard, admiring her at his leisure, and had then no wish to utter any anthem save the anthem of love.

  28. After dinner, and so to chappell again; and there had another good anthem of Captain Cooke's.

  29. The sermon done, a good anthem followed, with vialls, and then the King came down to receive the Sacrament.

  30. An Easter Anthem is an Easter Anthem, but after five renderings it is hardly fair to expect the congregation to behave as if they had never heard it before.

  31. The collecting of the offering was somewhat of an anti-climax, as was also the anthem by the choir, the latter consisting of a complicated arrangement of the question, "If a man die shall he live again?

  32. It is an anthem sung in some places by the choir during the Communion of the Priest.

  33. In an ecclesiastical sense, the anthem said or sung while the offerings are being made; it is now frequently used to denote the alms collected.

  34. This time a snippet from the national anthem served her turn--but it was no good, the audience would have none of it; in a crescendo of uproarious demand it invited her to try again.

  35. The Prussian National Anthem was not written by a Goethe, a Schiller, or even a Koener.

  36. The angels came into the forest, singing the same glorious anthem about the Child, and the stars sang in chorus with them, until every part of the woods rang with echoes of that wondrous song.

  37. And as he stood upon the pinnacle, what a mighty panorama was spread before him, and what a mighty anthem swelled upon his ears!

  38. I like to hear the royal anthem from the lips of a churchman rolling it out ore rotundo, like one of the Psalms of David.

  39. Marie, commenced the royal anthem composed by Lulli in honor of Louis Quatorze, upon an occasion of his visit to the famous Convent of St. Cyr, in company with Madame de Maintenon.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anthem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.