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    1. With one hand on the wheel he used the other to fiddle with the dial until he found some suitably sentimental melodies that suited his voice and so began to croon


    2. At that moment Billy understands that his own singing days are over, that he will never croon again


    3. of verse one should croon to an infant, but Nerissa could tell he enjoyed its tragic themes, its far-flung scenes, its encounters with strange enemies


    4. The ethereal beauty of the asters in the moonlight, the glimmer of the little spring, the soft croon of the brook, the wavering grace of the brackens all wove a white magic round John Meredith


    5. ‘Sandhya,’ she heard him croon, as she lay exhausted in his arms that night, their last night of the honeymoon at Kothalanka


    6. Sahana felt glad that she was selected to croon that song


    7. wanted me to be her croon;


    8. She would croon sweet sounding moans in his ears and encourage him


    9. having a pay effect croon the eye, wherever you turned it


    10. The lining of it, embossed cloth, represented a wild forest foliage, from the top, down to the sides, which, in the same stuff, were figured with fluted pilasters, with their spaces between filled with flower vases, the whole having a pay effect croon the eye, wherever you turned it

    11. I tried to look through her eyes and thought: My God, has it always been this way, forever some man in that house, forty, eighty, a hundred years ago! Not the same man, no, but all dark twins, and this lost girl on the road, with snow in her arms for love, and frost in her heart for comfort, and nothing to do but whisper and croon and mourn and sob until the sound of her weeping stilled at sunrise, but to start again with the rising of the moon


    12. The croon was outside the house again, the merest fingernail of mourn, as the moon scraped down the roof


    13. Six years of caring for her had punished it enough, and now this aberrant truth made it so he could caress her once again and kiss her freely, and croon to her, and smooth her hair with his hands, yes, and she was with him again, father of her child, father of her death


    14. The grass where drowsy insects hum, the eaves where pigeons croon;


    1. “I've attended performances since I was a little girl and I have practiced voice for three years; I hope to be a soloist someday,” she crooned, “but I think I still enjoy Shakespeare best, even though there aren't any musical numbers


    2. reenactment of the things she’d crooned to Homer


    3. She crooned at me and whispered in my ear as though I was her child but then again we were both children really when you weighed it up


    4. “You need to rest, and have a bath, and let me take care of things,” she crooned, then tenderly bending down, she kissed the socket-like, puckered-up scars on my legs


    5. Her look was of anxious love as she crooned to the sleeping Ea slouched over her shoulder


    6. “No! No! It’s all right! You saved him! You have saved him!” Zoran crooned soothingly as he carefully cut away the twigs and thorns that had so cruelly gouged her slender body


    7. She knows! That inner voice of his desire crooned suggestively


    8. It crooned in the old spruces around the graveyard and ruffled Faith's splendid curls as she sat on Hezekiah Pollock's tombstone with her arms round Mary Vance and Una


    9. ” she crooned, leaning into his hands a bit as her nipples hardened


    10. ” Mark happily crooned as she set the chair back in place in its depression at their table’s edge

    11. But the voice that crooned in the unread depths of her child’s mind was not one that aimed to soothe, but to command


    12. “My son, my son,” crooned the old man as he hugged and stroked Mahli, “I thought that we might never see you again when those Egyptians took you away! How is it that we have you among us again?”


    13. “My son, my son,” crooned the old man as he hugged and stroked Mahli, “I thought that we


    14. “Good evening,” she crooned, in an affected posh accent


    15. “Any chick on the chink?” he crooned in her ear, reaching for her crotch


    16. The trembling girl crooned soothingly to him, as to a wounded child, and closed his panting lips with her own cool sweet mouth


    17. “You were chosen for the Chosen,” I said harshly and to my astonishment, it came out in a language that was not one of the seven taught to me by my father but something my mother had crooned to me as a baby’s lullaby


    18. "Borka will be all right," she crooned


    19. Choosing her moment with care, she crooned gently to him, 'It was right for


    20. “She stroked me,” Alfie crooned

    21. “ Awww sweetie come here ” Samual crooned and Damon ran to him jumping in


    22. ‘It’s half moon now and I would be twenty steps away,’ he crooned into her ears endearingly


    23. ‘With you around,’ crooned Tara, ‘who would have eyes for me?’


    24. ‘Pocking,’ she crooned, licking his ear


    25. ‘Oh, what a life!’ he crooned into her ears


    26. ‘Listen,’ he crooned into her ear, as if cajole her subconsciousness, ‘I’ll be here soon, never to part again


    27. ‘Won’t you get up my love?’ she crooned in his ears, as he stirred


    28. ‘Some colorful thirty-sixes for you,’ he crooned into her ears


    29. ‘What’s for the day darling?’ he crooned into her ears at length


    30. ‘What is it before that year-long waiting,’ he crooned into her ear

    31. ‘Expect me with tons of love,’ he crooned into her ear


    32. All of them, even Charlie, crooned with delight when I described how I put Stan down, and my response to his threat


    33. “Come in, my darling girl,” Mrs Gold crooned


    34. “Easy now, easy,” Wilson crooned, his hand grappling with a rope that he’d produced from his belt


    35. “What a silly girl!” she crooned


    36. “I love you,” she crooned


    37. He crooned again, very quietly, as I gently stroked his feathers, once, twice, three times


    38. “You silly girl,” I crooned at her


    39. “That was the best night’s sleep I’ve had in a year,” he crooned


    40. “He is a friend of ours,” crooned Latrobe

    41. 'Come here,' he said, reaching out and drawing her on to his knee; and he held her face against his breast, and felt full of maternal instincts, and crooned over her


    42. 'Was it a poor little baby,' he crooned


    43. "There," she crooned to Norma


    44. “Excellent,” crooned the Raksha, “allocating our ground forces on the dark side of the moon was a superb idea wily prince


    45. You know I love you," he crooned


    46. " Shay pressed more buttons, the image on the screen changed to a roaring log fire and an R&B singer crooned to a soft soundtrack


    47. ‘Bles-sed pre-cious,’ she crooned, holding out her arms


    48. “You and me, we’re a team,” he crooned


    49. Here I heard myself apostrophised as a “hard little thing;” and it was added, “any other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise


    50. And as he went down the path, the hanging harps crooned after him the Sorcerer’s Farewell


    1. He's probably sitting at home in his coat and shoes, having a last drink, with his beloved Vic Damone crooning away in the background


    2. She held a small hanky to his nose and was now crooning to him in French as though he were a child he looked up at Bet with the utmost hurt written on his face


    3. Piers then started the engine and I got in and off we went with Des O’Connor crooning ‘Speed bonny boat like a bird on the wing, onward the sailors cry, carry the lad that’s born to be king, over the sea to Skye’, and Roger whistling away like a demented nightingale


    4. Louie had D'Oliya in his arms and was crooning while he slow-danced her across the snow


    5. But then she spooned me, and made little crooning noises, and I let her for a while


    6. You know—the way you’d hold a frightened pup or a baby bird fallen from its nest—stroking its head and crooning to it softly, to still the poor shivering, shaking thing


    7. His mom was holding her face and seemed to be crooning while others held her upright


    8. Mike broke away and wrapped his arms around the girls’ shoulders, crooning, “Hi, ladies


    9. Seeming pleased with this addition, Othin looked back at me and made that crooning noise I had heard, earlier


    10. He spread his wings, ran a few steps down the paddock and lifted up into the air, crooning happily as he took off

    11. I thought that would be kind of hard to do with a gaggle of old birds crooning and patting you


    12. the plants, crooning to them as if they were precious


    13. "Never mind, Little!" He said crooning


    14. Thus, you were to hammer boys round—Old Clem! With a thump and a sound—Old Clem! Beat it out, beat it out—Old Clem! With a clink for the stout—Old Clem! Blow the fire, blow the fire—Old Clem! Roaring dryer, soaring higher—Old Clem! One day soon after the appearance of the chair, Miss Havisham suddenly saying to me, with the impatient movement of her fingers, "There, there, there! Sing!" I was surprised into crooning this ditty as I pushed her over the floor


    15. Energy was streaming and colliding all around, but Nicky seemed to have withdrawn into his own cool microclimate in the driver’s seat, and Charlie could hear him crooning falsetto, Aaaah … love to love you, bay-buh, his eyes never leaving the road


    16. I about rode to her rescue just hearing the seductive promises implied by that crooning, and I was the thing she needed rescuing from


    17. Zorka was singing a sad Bosnian song in her tender, crooning voice, and dancing with graceful steps round the little bear, who, to tell the truth, also danced more lightly than the heavy Ibrahim, and was very amusing when he lifted his paw to his head as Hungarians do when they are in high spirits and break forth in hurrahs


    1. Sean’s raspy voice croons a soulful and passionate tune


    2. I lied she croons


    3. “Tell me you want me more than life itself,” she croons, all soft and sultry


    4. She could find her own personal Jesus on the matte black cement floors where hundreds of meaty, tusked Unseelie that resemble rhinoceroses stamp the floor with hooves and indulge their taste for voluptuous women and Marilyn Manson; or do it her way, which is all she does anyway, where Sinatra croons from speakers mounted on the polished wood of a stately, old-fashioned bar presided over by three enormously fat Unseelie females with multiple breasts; or acknowledge that she is, in fact, Titanium, as Sia belts out above a mirrored dance floor that pulses with flashing neon lights, crammed with young, mostly naked men and women, attended in air and on foot by golden, sparkling Seelie


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    Synonyms for "croon"

    croon buzz drone purr hum sing mutter

    "croon" definitions

    sing softly