Crossword-Solution: REFRAINS
We have 11 clues for the answer “REFRAINS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Fa la la la la la la la la" and others | 1 answer |
| Choruses | 1 answer |
| Choruses of songs | 1 answer |
| Doesn't indulge | 1 answer |
| Hey-nonny-nonny and tra-la-la. | 1 answer |
| Repeated lines in songs or acts of self-restraint | 1 answer |
| Repeated parts of songs | 1 answer |
| Forbears | 2 answers |
| Whistle blowers | 3 answers |
| Song sections | 3 answers |
| Melodies | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with REFRAINS (5)
The writer of a Memorial, from which this piece of information is drawn, refrains very cautiously from mentioning the objectors by name.
Round the stag Thus will the cunning hunter draw a line Of tainted feathers poisoning the air; Or spread the mesh, and muzzle in his grasp The straining jaws of the Molossian hound, And leash the Spartan pack; nor is the brake Trusted to any dog but such as tracks The scent with lowered nostrils, and refrains From giving tongue the while; content to mark By shaking leash the covert of the prey.
Lothario said, too, that every married man should have some friend who would point out to him any negligence he might be guilty of in his conduct, for it will sometimes happen that owing to the deep affection the husband bears his wife either he does not caution her, or, not to vex her, refrains from telling her to do or not to do certain things, doing or avoiding which may be a matter of honour or reproach to him; and errors of this kind he could easily correct if warned by a friend.
All the spirits of the river and the hill, all the dying refrains of ballad and the fading echoes of story, all the memory of the wild past, each legend of burn and loch, seem to have combined to inform your spirit, and to secure themselves an immortal life in your song.
The popular trick of repetition, affording a rest to the memory of the singer, is perhaps the origin of all refrains.
Quotes with REFRAINS (3)
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our m…
There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in suc…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1954–2022).