"Zither" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... plays the violin and I the zither—we also go to fairs. In the winter we play at cafes in large towns. Life is hard, Monsieur, ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... and technique stand out in every line of this story. One woman is placed between two men, unexpected friendships are developed, the lute and the zither are played in the moonlight, love and longing abound, nature is made a confidant, der Zaubern der Kunst is overdone, familiar stories—Leda and the Swan, Actaeon and Danae—are interwoven, there are manifest reminiscences ...
— Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei • Allen Wilson Porterfield
... hat, not much was to be clearly discerned of her except that she was small and pale and had bright eyes. But even the two words she spoke proved the peculiar quality of her voice: it was like the tremolo of a zither string; and at the sound of it the actors on each side of her instinctively moved a step back for a better view of her, while in his lurking place old Tinker let his dry lips open a little, which was as near as he ever came, nowadays, ...
— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington
... poets were, as Mohammed boasted himself, unalphabetic[FN434] or rather could neither read nor write. They addressed the ear and the mind, not the eye. They "spoke verse," learning it by rote and dictating it to the Rawi, and this reciter again transmitted it to the musician whose pipe or zither accompanied the minstrel's song. In fact the general practice of writing began only at the end of the first century after ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... him not his trelllsed guard, His bolts of iron, strongly barred; Yet, wandering in the cool night-air, I touch my zither's string, And as afore her beauties rare, Her wondrous graces sing, And e'en the gardener shall not dare Refuse the praise ...
— The Two Captains • Friedrich de La Motte-Fouque
... Gaeulen, Und singend kehrten Winzervolk und Schnitter. Auf allen Daechern qualmten blaue Saeulen 5 Genuegsam himmelan, ein luftig Gitter. Nun ist es Nacht, es geistern schon die Eulen, Einsam aus einer Laube klingt die Zither. ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... the life that sweeps down these stairs with its soiled petticoats—the life that cringes and creeps, moans, sighs, sweats, cries out, curses, mutters, hammers, planes, jeers, steals, drives its dark trades up and down these stairs—the sinister creatures that hide here, playing their zither, grinding their accordions, sticking in need and hunger and misery, leading their vicious lives—no, it's beyond one's power of recording. And your old manager, last but not least, runs, groans, sighs, sweats, cries out and curses with ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann
... pleasantly and quietly. The countess would read aloud or would play on the zither, with which instrument she would accompany herself while she sang. Thekla would sit at her embroidery and would chat merrily to Malcolm, and ask many questions about Scotland and the life which the ladies ...
— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty |
