cadent

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It cast a cadent spray high to the heavens.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

I saw no horses, no sign of life; heard no sound but the cadent wail of the ash-grey birds in their flights.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter

O, listen to the undersong, The ever old, the ever young; And, far within those cadent pauses, The chorus of the ancient Causes!

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

CADENT.�The third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses are cadent.

From How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer by Sepharial

A mighty undertone of mingled sound; The cadent tumult rising from a throng Of urban workers, blending in a song Of greater life that makes the pulses bound.

From The California Birthday Book by Various