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Nursery rhyme   /nˈərsəri raɪm/   Listen
Nursery rhyme

noun
1.
A tale in rhymed verse for children.





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"Nursery rhyme" Quotes from Famous Books



... forgotten that once we knew; And to-day a boy with curls of gold Is running my fond heart through and through— In and out and round and round— And I find myself laughing without a sound At the funny things he said that time When life was one glad nursery rhyme. ...
— The Next of Kin - Those who Wait and Wonder • Nellie L. McClung
... wretched mortals had babies with them,—babies whose fretful wails seemed but to voice the mother's expression of countenance. In an uneasy way the little mites would be shifted from one shoulder to another, or trotted in nervousness that reminded me irresistibly of the nursery rhyme which might be the ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland
... who had thought themselves still to be living in the old New England tradition, he was the genius of an evil dream. Hard on his heels came a nightmare troop, whose coming brought to the remembrance of the imaginative the old nursery rhyme:—"Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark, The ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill


Words linked to "Nursery rhyme" :   narrative, tale, story, narration


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