Ballads
[bælədz]
Examples
- I had a very choice collection of ballads, and there was a new stock of gingerbread in the tin box. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In merry England there is no end of popular ballads on this theme. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Recollections of happy trysts of lovers, commemorated in old ballads, returned on her mind; she thought such tryst in such scene would be blissful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Snatches of sweet ballads haunted her ear; now and then she sang a stanza. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Was it outside that very house as I first set eyes upon him, rolling in the lap of luxury, when I was selling halfpenny ballads there for a living? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He wrote poetry--sonnets, stanzas, ballads. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And then to be shut in on each side, with these ballads, like so many book-leaf blinkers! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Leah