Usage examples for paean
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Poised on the point of an iron spike in the line that bristled along the wall, a mocking bird preened, then spread his wings, soared and finally swept downward, thrilling the air with the bravura of the " tumbling song"; and over the rampart that shut out the world, drifted the refrain of a paean to peace: " Bob White!" – At the Mercy of Tiberius by August Evans Wilson
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But Browning in his verse, setting aside the early Strafford, nowhere celebrates a popular political movement; he nowhere chaunts a paean, in the manner of Byron or Shelley, in honour of the abstraction " Liberty." – Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
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Manalive was a paean of joy to life. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward