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An interpolation into liturgical chants dating from the 8th or 9th centuries, probably of Byzantine origin. Tropes were at first vocalized as purely musical ornamentations or sung on syllables of certain words, especially ‘Alleluia’, but later they became so important that special words were newly written for them. Sometimes new words came first and demanded new music; thus the sequence, which began merely as a special kind of trope, developed into a poetical form with musical setting.



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As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
And though our tropes of fairyland be mixed with those of entomology they shall not spill one drop of ambrosia from the rose-crowned melody of Maggie's one perfect night.
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Not that I wanted beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are concerned, whether they mean porridge or voting, and exchanged them for rice; but, perchance, as some must work in fields if only for the sake of tropes and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day.
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