Sentence examples for grave singing from inspiring English sources

You and I could be standing over Shakespeare's grave, singing his praises, and it doesn't mean a thing.

Singer Glenn Tilbrook changed the lyrics of their song "Cradle to the Grave", singing: "I grew up in council houses, they're part of what made Britain great / But there are some people who are hellbent on destruction of the welfare state" while the Prime Minister was sitting to his left.

"Jesse had a wife who mourned for his life, and his children too were brave; but a dirty little coward they called Robert Howard laid Jesse James in his grave," sings Mrs Riddle in a quavering alto.

And the mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves sang the aria "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix" from Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalilah" in a manner that conveyed more seriousness of purpose than romantic allure.

I cherish the memory of my afternoon in Auburn, visiting the Seward House, making a pilgrimage to Harriet Tubman's home, then visiting her grave and singing "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" to a silent audience.

It's also notable that a surprising number of the landmark pieces of TV drama - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; One Foot In The Grave; The Singing Detective and Inspector Morse - have centered on morose middle-aged men.

(where John Updike grew up), Ms. Marvel recalled that the first time she was allowed to leave her yard as a child she visited a cemetery down her street and soon began lying atop graves "and singing for the people underneath".

Mudassir Khan visits the tomb of Ghazi Shaheed Ilm-Deen every day to add to the heap of flower petals on top of his grave and sing a tearful prayer to the illiterate carpenter's apprentice who killed to protect the honour of his faith.

In the giant Avalon cemetery on the edge of Soweto, Bheki Mlangeni's mother and brother tended his grave and sang a short struggle song as the rain clouds moved in.

Lighting Up Lincoln Center Denyce Graves will sing holiday classics with the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus.

SINCE Shakespeare gave us singing grave-diggers in "Hamlet," since Dickens gave us the asthmatic Mr. Omer in "David Copperfield," since the very advent of the pine box, undertakers have been regarded with dread.