Strains

In joyful strains then let us sing: “Advance Australia Fair!”

Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free; we’ve golden soil and wealth for toil, our home is girt by sea; our land abounds in nature’s gifts, of beauty rich and rare; in history’s page let every stage, advance Australia Fair! In joyful strains then let us sing: “Advance Australia Fair!”

The incident led to deep strains in diplomatic relations with the United States.

As he sang these tender strains, the very ghosts shed tears.

They had lovely voices, much clearer than any mortal, and when a storm was rising, and they expected ships to be wrecked, they would sing in the most seductive strains of the wonders of the deep, bidding the seafarers have no fear of them.

The little mermaid dressed in silk and gold stood holding the bride's train, but her ears were deaf to the festal strains, her eyes saw nothing of the sacred ceremony. She was thinking of her coming death and of all that she had lost in this world.

The instruments now played their loudest strains; the dancers pursued their exercise with all the enthusiasm inspired by youth, mirth, and high spirits, when a cry was heard so shrill and piercing as at once to arrest the dance and the music.

The report says urgent action is now needed to eliminate falciparum malaria from the region — otherwise the resistant strains of the parasite could further spread to other parts of Asia and Africa, potentially causing global health emergency.

Vaccine makers are already adapting their shots to the new strains, just in case.

Kluge warned that millions of unvaccinated Europeans remain highly vulnerable to the delta variant, which data suggests is far more transmissible than other strains.