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...eputation was cemented by this nocturnal recital. We didn't understand a word he said, his music fell on arid ears. My mother beseeched him softly,... ... even with mine. I turned around, into the public park, across the inner yard, down to the looping street that bordered on the water. The lake was ... ... I said to Nomi: "Why don't you approach the organisers? Tell them that you have composed music to some of his poems and that you are willing to p... ...ed the womaniser's tensile, proud, virility. He dyed his hair jet black. Original Moroccan music, wistful and lusty, the desert's guttural refrain,... .... "Whose is it, do we know?" – my grandpa probed at last. My father snuffed the ornamental music and shrugged uncertainly. My grandpa rubbed his re... ...randpa, his eyes still shut, waving a steady hand in the general direction of the decimated music – "Just salvage our dignity and hers." The next d...
...kers, but actually cause damage. The various recordings that were set on looping playback in front of him were not very revealing. Not a single fra... ...is what we need. Okay, maybe not that particular one as we could use some music down here, but we could fnd a powerful subwoofer that I could modify...
...!” said Opossum. Opossum climbed up the tree to pick the last ripe apples, looping them in his tail along with the leaves to carry them to his new sh... ...whole forest was busy. Birds soared through the sky, filling the air with music. The seeds were sprouting, the fruit trees were blossoming, and rain...
...isis; about Wayne Gretzky being traded to the Los Angeles Kings; and about music. Lacey 52 SUSAN BRACKEN was enthralled by her first intimate convers... ...nto his embrace and followed him slowly around the room, mesmerized by the music, the twinkling lights of the city, and the nearness of Jake’s body. S... ...love of nature, and their wonderful house; the world of books; evenings of music and theatre in Toronto and Barrie; their chil- dren. Jake bought a ca... ... She could feel the tension building inside her as she scanned the figures looping across the screen. She did the company payroll, so she knew that Je... ... his hands on a kitchen towel, Scott asked, “Do you feel like listening to music?” “Sure. Let’s see, it’s Friday, so my station should have the croone... ...s voice flooded the room. “Is this okay with you?” “Yes. I like almost all music.” They moved back into the living room and stood by the window, looki...
..., Mr. Connolly,” she whispered, but the words were lost in the silk and the music and the applause. ***** Rupert Gable, Legendary Lord of Leg... ...five years later Daniel Connolly smiled behind the cover of his sheet music. His wife Helene was on the verge of a small tantrum, her third o... ...e of any help, darlin’?” he asked. “I don’t want to disturb you from your music,” she replied with an edge of petulance in her voice. “It’s all... ...Halverson’s new minstrel show which folded two nights after opening, of the musical pantomime Schwann had in rehearsal lampooning Boss Tweed and Tam... ...l wrong, and her accent was terrible. But, God, he had never heard sweeter music in his life. Ignoring the stitch in his side, he rose and followed... ...ormed tower room. The walls and windows were festooned with pine and holly, looping up to be caught with silk bows and ribbon-trimmed tapers that fi...
...o the sound of ripping and a quick intake of breath, followed by the uneven music of liquid spilling into earthenware. She rolled over on her pallet... ...ntly of his brain. He spun as though in a dream. Shards chimed like distant music filling the putrid air. Screams became the calls of animals beseec... ...d a fleeting blush to the child's skin. Piri eased leaves around the neck, looping and tying off the vines. She began to wrap a skeletal arm. Sweat... ...ing continued, trailing off. She could measure his distance from her by his music. When she was sure he had gone inside, she grasped a chain with he...
... early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remot... ...to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acous- tics, always so problematic a quality in h... ... tics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hear- ing of music. It was Madame Nilsson’s first appearance that winter, and what the d... ...!” and not “he loves me,” since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world re- quired that the German text of French operas sung by Swed... ...r dreamed of before, and playing the piano in quin- tets with professional musicians. Of course no good could come of this; and when, a few 43 Edith ... ...looking down into the fire, wore a gray cashmere dress without fashionable loopings or trimmings, moulded to her tall figure and flowing in long lines...
...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European ca...
...sh That answered me, the far-off rush Of herald wings came whispering Like music down the vibrant string Of my ascending prayer, and—crash! Before the... ...ou. Here your hand, Guiding your rapid pen, moved up and down. Here with a looping knot you crossed a “t,” And here another like it, just beyond These...
................................................................. 33 TWILIGHT MUSIC ........................................................................ ..., Chillanwallah! Where our brothers fought and bled, O thy name is natural music And a dirge above the dead! Though we have not been defeated, Though ... ... thine, Such heart is mine, O thou of mortal visions most divine! TWILIGHT MUSIC Know you the low pervading breeze That softly sings In the trembling ... ...ice! How keenly I rejoice When in me with sweet motions slow The spiritual music ebbs and moans – Lives in the lustre of those heavenly eyes, Dies in ... ...ght of its eternity; Till, nerved to life from its ordeal fire, It marries music with the human lyre, Blending divine delight with loveliest desire. R... ...When her mother tends her before the laughing mirror, T ying up her laces, looping up her hair, Often she thinks, were this wild thing wedded, More lo...
...r, and papa’s maiden sisters, and Jo’s school-teachers and governesses and music-teach- ers, and I don’t know what all.” 4 Moran of the Lady Letty Wh... ...acht- ing caps—all friends of his—crowded the decks. A little orchestra of musicians were reeling off a quickstep. The popping of a cork and a gale of... ... yellow, fragrant hair, that lay over her shoulder and breast, coiling and looping in her lap. “No,” he said, with a long breath, “I don’t make it out... ...not forget the horses Charlie. You shall have four.” “Want six-piecee band musicians—China music—heap plenty gong. You no flogettee? Two piecee priest... ... much silver”; and again, a little later and very feebly: “Six-piecee—band music—China music—four-piecee—gong—four.” “I promise you, Charlie,” said Wi... ...nterey; and about an hour later, when Ridgeway gave the nod to the waiting musicians, and swung her off to the beat of a two-step, there was not a mor...
...catches if they had known how to do it, but as it was they sang melancholy music hall songs about dying sol- diers and the old folks far away. They wo... ... who had a house at Easewood. His widowed father had recently given up the music and bicycle shop (with the post of organist at the parish church) tha... ...the transepts he never penetrated because of the charge for admission. The music and the long vista of the fretted roof filled him with a vague and my... .... What else could he do? He could think of nothing. He went one night to a music hall and developed a vague idea of a comic performance; the comic men... ... were dancing a formal ceremonious dance full of bows and curtseys, to the music of a wandering fiddler they had encountered. They had been driving on... ...he hamper. The eel flew out at a tan- gent from his hand and became a mere looping relic on the sward. “Hold him!” cried the gentleman in spectacles. ...
...little later a marriage procession would strike into the Grand T runk with music and shoutings, and a smell of marigold and jas mine stronger even th... ...Solomon. ‘Before the lamassery was a broad platform,’ the lama mut tered, looping up the well worn rosary, ‘of stone. On that I have left the marks o... ...e beating of an artery in the head. Soon a sharp ness was added. ‘Ah! The music,’ Kim explained. He knew the sound of a regimental band, but it amaze... ...the woman gave him food. In many respects, this big procession that played music at intervals this crowd that talked and laughed so easily–resembled ... ...e spectacle his patronage. At evening there came out to meet them bands of music, and played the Mav ericks into camp near Umballa railway station. T... ...Hindus.’ That was no cheerful night; the room being overfull of voices and music. Kim was waked twice by someone calling his name. The second time he ...
...e time for anything decent—” “As for instance?” “Well, going for walks, or music, or books, or seeing interesting people. You never do anything that’s... ... blue. “There are one or two people I’m fond of, and there’s a little good music, and a few pictures, now and then— just enough to keep one dangling a... ...g about here. Ah, but I couldn’t live with savages! Are you fond of books? Music? Pictures? D’you care at all for first editions? I’ve got a few nice ... ... three hours every day reading Shakespeare,” Rodney remarked. “And there’s music and pictures, let alone the society of the people one likes.” 61 Vir... .... Clacton to enchanted people in a bewitched tower, with the spiders’ webs looping across the corners of the room, and all the tools of the necromance... ... for it. She cast her eyes down in irritation, and read again her mother’s musical sentences about the silver gulls, and the roots of little pink flow...
... story of just such a night, lowering his voice for fear of disturbing the music and the minds of the passengers. ‘She was the Visigoth,—five hundred ... ...and knocked out the pin av the fallin’-block. Oh, ’twas 76 Soldiers Three music when that pin rowled on the flure! I put ut into my pouch an’ stuck a... ...curred to me before. (Aloud.) We’ve been discuss- ing ‘Shakespeare and the musical glasses’ in the veranda. MISS T. (Aside.) Nice man! He knows that q... ...embles visibly.) CAPT. M. (Returning.) She’s coming now. Look out when the music starts. There’s the organ beginning to clack. Bride steps out of ‘ric... ... difficult to keep a banjo to proper pitch. MRS. G. It’s the same with all musical instruments. What shall it be? CAPT. G. ‘Vanity,’ and let the hills... ...the photo-frames on the mantelpiece. A wee white kitten, nearly blind, was looping and writhing itself between the clock and the candlesticks. That st...
... why you are trying — those bullies! My mother wants you to carry on their musical education. How selfish of her! As if attending to these curst cocks ... ...nerous business when she had regained the art, for she had caught from her musical mother numerous airs that suited those songsters admirably. A far m... ... state of things for these parts, where as a rule the stamping drowned the music. The front door being open she could see straight through the house i... ... which she had inherited from her ballad singing mother, gave the simplest music a power over her which could well nigh drag her heart out of her boso... ...lare, sitting abstractedly reading from some book, periodical, or piece of music just come by post, hardly noticed that she was present at the table. ... ...les of meadowland, frequently divided, serpentining in purposeless curves, looping themselves around little islands that had no name, returning and re...
...e dawn he was assisted in waking by the abnormal reverberation of familiar music. To the shepherd, the note of the sheep bell, like the ticking of the... ... resumed, primarily to gain the information, indirectly to get more of the music. ‘Quite right. It’s at the bottom of the hill. And do you know — ’ Th... ...unes going on I seem as if hung in wires. If I thought after I’d left that music was still playing, and I not there, I should be quite melancholy like... ...love enough, but it is turned into a new channel. I know where.’ The swift music of her heart became hubbub now, and she throbbed to extrem ity. He w... ...the former by passing the rope in each case through the animal’s mouth and looping it on the other side. Oak vaulted astride, and Coggan clambered up ... ...there cannot be, and never were, two opinions. It has been observed in the musical circles of Weatherbury and its vicinity that this melody, at the en...
...ts lights ablaze and its ports open, looking like a big firefly. There was music aboard. I stood up and shouted and screamed at it. The second day I b... ...m, and were about the rudder; and creeping up the sides of the boat with a looping motion came the suckers again. The men gripped their oars and pulle... ...as. Jennie had kept on playing, but his wife, who was looking through some music that was piled on the top of the piano, had stared at him. “What’s wr... ...ng with my playing now?” said Jennie, stop- ping and twirling round on the music-stool with a mon- strous rustle of flounces. Coombes saw it was going... ...mmon with your timid, nervous men all the world over. “Steady on with that music-stool!” said he; “it ain’t made for ‘eavy-weights.” “Never you mind a... ...my back about my playing?” “Surely you don’t ‘old with not having a bit of music on a Sunday, Mr. Coombes?” said the new guest, leaning back in the ar...
...ols had been sung, we set them to songs and glees. Mrs. Earnshaw loved the music, and so they gave us plenty. Catherine loved it too: but she said it ... ...re’s no press in the room, and never was,’ said I, re- suming my seat, and looping up the curtain that I might watch her. ‘Don’t you see that face?’ s... ...tute for the yet absent murmur of the sum- mer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf. At W uthering Heights i... ...larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dus... ...d from within by harsh words of scorn and intolerance, uttered in far from musical accents. ‘I’d rayther, by th’ haulf, hev’ ‘em swearing i’ my lugs f...
...rpers had come back, for the Great Hall was filled with a rushing noise of music. De Aquila leaped up; but there was only the moonlight fretty on the ... ...floor. “‘Hearken!” said Hugh. “It is my sword,” and as he belted it on the music ceased. “‘Over Gods, forbid that I should ever belt blade like that,”... ...wn on a felled oak-trunk in the shadows of the beech undergrowth, and were looping the wires Hobden had given them, when they saw Parnesius. ‘How quie... ...r of the Bell Tavern, and then we ran too. “‘What’s next?” says Sebastian, looping up his cow-tail as he leaped the briars. “I’ve broke honest John’s ... ...’s gold moves with the seasons, and the crops, and the winds; circling and looping and rising and sinking away like a river -a wonderful underground r... ...g of some stranger, and his voice filled the little bare wood with rolling music. 153 Rudyard Kipling ‘I cast’—his hand went to his breast, and again...