His excuses were cut short by Tom Platt launching into a most dolorous tune, like unto the moaning of winds and the creaking of masts.
Then Manuel touched the jangling, jarring little nachette to a queer tune, and sang something in Portuguese about "Nina, innocente!" ending with a full-handed sweep that brought the song up with a jerk.
As soon as he had repeated the tune and lowered his fiddle, he bowed again to the Squire and the rector, and said, "I hope I see your honour and your reverence well, and wishing you health and long life and a happy New Year.
But thereupon he immediately began to prelude, and fell into the tune which he knew would be taken as a special compliment by Mr.
You can't SING "Above wonderfully there," because it simply won't go to the
tune, without damaging the singer; but it is a most clingingly exact translation of DORT OBEN WUNDERBAR--fits it like a blister.
Now that I've found such pleasant company, I can talk and play
tunes all I want to."
"A
tune much iterated has the ridiculous effect of making the words in my mind perform a sort of minuet to keep time--an effect hardly tolerable, I imagine, after boyhood.
We may imagine Governor Shirley and General Pepperell riding slowly along the line, while the drummers beat strange old
tunes, like psalm-tunes, and all the officers and soldiers put on their most warlike looks.
Thwackum and Square likewise sung to the same tune. They were now
His daughter, though she was a perfect mistress of music, and would never willingly have played any but Handel's, was so devoted to her father's pleasure, that she learnt all those tunes to oblige him.
Craig; "it's not to be named by side o' the Scotch
tunes. I've never cared about singing myself; I've had something better to do.
Standing on a projecting rock, he played several
tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below.