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How to use hymn in a sentence

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These portraits lent them a near iconic dimension, recording a pictorial hymn in their praise for posterity.
It was a cloudless summer morning, and all Nature, smiling in her felicity, sent up a hymn of adoration to the author of her beauty.
For example, they did not often gather together with harps and rebecks to celebrate their national glories, or to hymn their national heroes.
A couple of other band members were hidden in the wings ready to help out if James was unable to complete the hymn.
Prayer borrows its first line and its meter from an Ambrosian liturgical hymn.
Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge.
Act I opened, not at the harbour side but with the assembled populace sitting singing a hymn as if in church.
Next to the lute is an open hymn book, identifiable as the work of the great religious reformer Martin Luther.
After the ceremonial opening, a hymn should be read from the Guru Granth Sahib.
If you still have last year's order of service, please bring this along with you, as the hymn format will be similar.
This acts as a wonderful foil to the modal hymn tune with plucked strings in the bass attempting to calm matters down.
When they stood up for a hymn, he noticed that her dress was tucked into the cheeks of her posterior.
Don Quixote is a monument to absurdity, a hymn to the inspiration and futility of the romantic anti-hero.
It centers around the slain but risen Lamb, and climaxes in a great hymn to the Paschal Lamb.
It is a hymn to the unanticipated and the miraculous and to the sustaining potential of faith and hope in life itself.
Here, Earle lets guitar, harmonica, and drums roll out a vibrant hymn to hope.
Earth has guessed much and rhythms the hymn behind the world in the stroke of her waves.
Already enamoured of the small Canadian town, he began to hymn its praises in verse which he read to public gatherings.
We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit.
All set for the kindling of the sacred fire, we hymn you, O Lord, with our verses, invoking your powerful grace.
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Dr. Hastings was not much of a poet, but he could make a singable hymn, and he knew the rhythm and accent needed in a hymn-tune.
The Reverend Grasty stood waiting for the first words of the hymn to uprise from below him in a mighty swing.
The derivation from atlatl, arrow, would seem more appropriate to the words of this hymn.
The hymn began to repeat itself, the individual words lost in the sonority of the hall.
Now we know a proper evening hymn, and you may go quickly to rest, my children.
The latter, who had given out the hymn, was a man of very different caliber.
Then the sailors sang a hymn of praise, and the hymn was of the king and to the king.
It is doubtful if there is a nobler hymn of its kind in all the realm of hymnody.
In the evening the keyboard was removed, and your humble servant ground out the hymn tunes as on a barrel organ.
It seemed to those honored by the serenaders that they had never before heard the fine old hymn so inspiringly sung.
At that Grannie fell to rocking herself as well as the child, and to singing a hymn in a quavery voice.
Now the hymn of Puritanical gloom-the peacemaker with Providence performing devotional exercises in black bile.
The last hymn does not appear in the present-day Primitive Methodist hymnal.
The text is taken from the Old Testament, together with part of a hymn or a chorale, and Bach called it a motet.
The theme is treated with reverence, delicacy and judgment, and the leading tone is that of a mighty hymn of rejoicing.
The Tahitian word for song, himine, is a Kanakazation of the English word hymn.
If the music is unclassical and the hymn crude there is no critical audience to be offended.
When we first went there they used to chant the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and a hymn, to the accompaniment of an accordion.
By way of punishment, lota had to learn four verses of a hymn after dinner.
Her hymn for the bolivar centennial has become the national song of Venezuela.
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