"Simultaneous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and looked at each other. Then they looked at the groom, and as their eyes surveyed his solemn, cadaverous countenance, which seemed a sort of bad caricature of the long visages of the horses that stood around him, they burst into a simultaneous and prolonged laugh. ...
— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne
... essentials he was civil and considerate, and Honor carefully made it evident that she did not mean to obtrude herself, and expected him to sit loose to the female part of the company. Divining that he would prefer the start from home not to be simultaneous, and also favouring poor Bertha's shuddering horror of the direct line of railway to London, she proposed that the ladies should work their way by easy journeys on cross lines to Southampton, whilst ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... her lover, it is because the thought of him mingles readily with all the gentle affections and good-natured offices with which she fills her peaceful days. Even now, her mind, with that instantaneous alternation which makes two currents of feeling or imagination seem simultaneous, is glancing continually from Stephen to the preparations she has only half finished in Maggie's room. Cousin Maggie should be treated as well as the grandest lady-visitor,—nay, better, for she should ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... take place so rapidly as to seem to be simultaneous, but close examination will reveal ...
— How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions • S. S. Curry
... (divide, i.e., let some of the players take one of the two tones indicated and the remainder of them the other one. This direction is of course used only in case two or more notes appear on the staff for simultaneous performance. It is customary to divide such passages by having the players seated on the side next the audience take the higher tone, while the others take the lower. If the section is to be divided into more than two parts, the ...
— Essentials in Conducting • Karl Wilson Gehrkens
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