"Vamp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... common methods is to underlay a melody with what E. M. Wickes, [1] one of the keenest popular song critics of today, calls the "internal vamp." This is the keeping of a melody so closely within its possible octave that the variations play around a very few notes. Try on your piano this combination—D, E flat, and E natural, or F natural, with varying tempos, and you will recognize many beginnings of different ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... of the Fourteenth Street Emporium, thus released by the six-o'clock flood-gates, flowed past Miss Slayback. White-nosed, low-chested girls in short-vamp shoes and no-carat gold vanity-cases. Older men resigned that ambition could be flayed by a yard-stick; young men still ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... idea of murder had not entered my head at that time, the slipper gave me a turn. I picked it up and looked at it—a black one with a beaded toe, short in the vamp and high-heeled, the sort most actresses wear. Then I went back and knocked at the door of the ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... your tongue,'" she teased. "Or did Mrs. Hill vamp you and make roast meat of your ...
— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram
... life has become one of unremitting toil. Together with the rest of the Show Girls I vamp and slouch my way around the clock with ever increasing seductiveness. We are really doing splendidly. The ponies come leaping lightly across the floor waving their freckled, muscular arms from side to side and looking very unattractive indeed in their B.V.D.'s, high shoes and sock supporters. ...
— Biltmore Oswald - The Diary of a Hapless Recruit • J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
... compelled to return immediately. Consequently he is obliged to dispose at once of his lately-purchased house of furniture, at a great sacrifice. It is as good as new, in fact, has hardly been used at all; is elegant and substantial, and can be seen any day at Vamp Villa, Barnsbury, upon presentation of visiting-card. Suppose, dearest ANGY, we run over to-morrow afternoon, and have a look at it? Such a chance—in the very nick of time, too—may ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., November 29, 1890 • Various
... says he can vamp them all, and it will be too delightful to have something from each of my women stars," Constance urged. "Now I'll leave you two to arrange it, and in a few minutes I'll get every one back from the dining room," ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... foot is short and fat, buy a short vamp shoe; if your foot is long and narrow, get shoes with a long vamp. Stiff soles being bad for the arches and hard to work in, be sure to get ...
— The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn
... of The Rhine Gold, also cannot be mistaken. It, too, has a memorable rhythm; and its majestic harmonies, far from presenting those novel or curious problems in polyphony of which Wagner still stands suspected by superstitious people, are just those three simple chords which festive students who vamp accompaniments to comic songs "by ear" soon find sufficient for nearly all the ...
— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw |
Words linked to "Vamp" : woman, philander, piece, dally, tease, chat up, musical accompaniment, touch on, minx, romance, invent, accompaniment, prickteaser, vamp up, make up, coquette, restore, furbish up, adult female, manufacture, fabricate, backup, vamper, mash, butterfly, piece of leather, doctor, flirt, support, patch, fix, coquet, upper, mend, revamp, repair, bushel |
