"Tempo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... began talking, arguing. He tried to speak at an ordinary tempo, but his words kept ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... I was the man to wind up these tedious affairs. They were not nearly so difficult and complicated as they seemed to him—they were now largely routine matters, in fact; and I hope I carried things along at a tempo which satisfied him. This is not to deny that Raymond seemed to have days when he found even me dilatory and exasperating; but old Brand would probably have driven ...
— On the Stairs • Henry B. Fuller
... recently pointed out how quickly the tempo of modern warfare could bring into our very midst the physical attack which we must eventually expect if the ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... in "Locksley Hall," Tennyson says that "a sorrow's crown of sorrow is rememb'ring better things." The original is in Dante's words:- - "Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria." — "Inferno," v. 121. ("There is no greater sorrow than to remember happy ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... that must perforce flee from the sight of fellow creatures, than to the kind of graduated passion which begins with conversation, proceeds to a public engagement with staring people all about you, and ends with the still more measured tempo of a Church wedding. All the waiting, all the temporising, all the toadlike deliberation that these various slow steps involved, ran counter to her deepest feeling, that her love must be a matter of touch and go, a sudden kindling of two ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
|
