Crossword-Solution: DIRGES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIRGES | anagram | REDIGS, RIDGES |
We have 24 clues for the answer “DIRGES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mournful compositions | 1 answer |
| Solemn hymns | 1 answer |
| Plaintive songs | 1 answer |
| Passing scores? | 1 answer |
| Solemn pieces | 1 answer |
| Mourning hymns. | 1 answer |
| Mournful tunes | 1 answer |
| Songs of sadness | 1 answer |
| Mournful melodies | 1 answer |
| Melancholy compositions | 1 answer |
| Funereal compositions | 1 answer |
| Funeral tunes | 1 answer |
| Funeral hymns | 1 answer |
| "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" and others | 1 answer |
| Very sad songs | 1 answer |
| mournful-songs | 2 answers |
| Threnodies | 2 answers |
| Sad songs | 2 answers |
| Requiems | 2 answers |
| Some somber music | 2 answers |
| Funeral music | 2 answers |
| Mournful songs | 4 answers |
| PINDAR, work of | 8 answers |
| Laments | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIRGES (5)
Mendicants were of course assembled by the score, together with strolling soldiers returned from Palestine, (according to their own account at least,) pedlars were displaying their wares, travelling mechanics were enquiring after employment, and wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.
Walt Whitman wrote a little poem during the Civil War--Year that trembled and reeled beneath me, said Walt, Must I learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled, and sullen hymns of defeat?--I've sat here in my shop at night, and looked round at my shelves, looked at all the brave books that house the hopes and gentlenesses and dreams of men and women, and wondered if they were all wrong, discredited, defeated.
Ante Aram Before thy shrine I kneel, an unknown worshipper, Chanting strange hymns to thee and sorrowful litanies, Incense of dirges, prayers that are as holy myrrh.
Then came the singing of dirges and weeping for the slain! The sadness of loss was mingled with exultation.
Bellarius also proposed to carry her out into the forest, and there celebrate her funeral with songs and solemn dirges, as was then the custom.
Quotes with DIRGES (3)
All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, And all things change them to the contrary.
You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop. If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say:"Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singing deep below the waving waters; or sad spirits, chanting dirges for white corps…
Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon, which in crushing benumbs.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1960–2024).