(1) Not a word did he speak to the little girl, but began singing a little ditty , an old tune full of light and the sun's laughter.

(2) A lovely little music-hall ditty

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(6) Alternatively, enjoy the day by composing a ditty about tonight's guest of honor at the Washington Hilton.

(7) A remake of the lilting Irving Berlin ditty Blue Skies began playing as the lights came up.

(8) A great political balladeer, he is at his superb best when singing melancholy personal ditties , with that soulful voice and tuneful guitar.

(9) Ballads have been penned, poems have been composed and ditties have been compiled.

(10) Coates wry, muttered lyrics lend his ditties a mischievous if subdued charm.

(11) My nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Tiana can almost sing all the ditties and do her dances to the tunes.

(12) In her spare time, the lawyer likes to do nothing better than knock out a few ditties from the Great American Songbook on her baby grand piano.

(13) If you know only Kander's pop ditties (and, to my regret, I do), these three will surprise you.

(14) Indeed, I muttered tuneless, dire ditties that I myself had composed.

(15) As though he has just come back from India and the great Maharishi, Brother JT songs resemble campfire ditties , with an odd tinge.

(16) Blink 182 play very fast punk-metal ditties that might be anthemic were they not furiously out of time.

(17) After a couple of songs the members sang ditties from the latest movies.

(18) The audience were all ears when the teams crooned ditties from the golden 80s.

(19) The repertoire includes military marches, old Japanese ditties , songs from kabuki theaters or yose variety theaters, and sometimes jazz.

(20) While Robespierre ranted, he directed the band of the Garde Nationale and served up Jacobin ditties .