death song
Example Sentences
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She quotes the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, who survived Sand Creek but still sang a death song: “Nothing lives long, Only the earth and the mountains.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Then in succession it gives the dulcet imitation of an Indian death song, a menagerie on a stampede, and a country school at recess, and ends with a swan song that makes your hair rise.
From Slate ● May 3, 2020
Buliard is struck by a death song that begins: Say, tell me now, was life so nice on earth?
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the lament sung at a funeral—a death song.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
Again the steam-pipe roared and the mournful whistle crooned the death song.
From A Wounded Name by Charles King
