lullabies

Pires also played, with questing imagination, the Three Intermezzi Op 117, harmonically mysterious and experimental late works which Brahms called "lullabies to my sorrows".

Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review 2012

Or even this, "Being jolted out of bed at dawn by amplified 'lullabies' being chanted at a temple near my hotel has awakened the atheist in me."

rediff.com 2010

She asked me about my country and where I came from and what kind of lullabies we have.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

He was a good-humored hero who, while capable of daring-do, was more at home singing love songs and lullabies.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

There were lullabies, cabaret songs, string quartets and more.

Still, the Music Played On Barbara Jepson 2012

Accustomed to hearing the comforting lullabies of police sirens through the windows of my 12th-floor Manhattan apartment, sleeping downhill from an extinct volcano, with polar bears—I guess they could have been mongooses—rooting around the yard made me feel like I was trapped inside Jacob's jungle shack on "Lost."

Aloha? More Like Boo! Sarah Vowell 2011

And he slept through her cries like they were lullabies.

Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

We wanted to revisit our country's faded history, our myths, our father's lullabies, and the stories that were passed down to us, Samad says with great enthusiasm in his voice.

Angella Nazarian: Dang Show Nods at Rumi's Message: Lose Yourself in Sweet Madness Angella Nazarian 2011

The lullabies on the turntable eventually sent both of us to sleep.

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

After my own son was born, I used to sing him the same lullabies when I put him to bed.

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011