"Musical instrument" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... can fret me, you cannot play upon me.] A fret is a stop or key of a musical instrument. Here is, therefore, a play upon the words. Though you cannot fret, stop, or vex, you cannot play or ...
— Hamlet • William Shakespeare
... beginning of the present century. It was toward 1830 that the celebrated Russian Gussikow undertook a grand artistic voyage through Europe, and gained a certain renown and received many honors due to his truly original productions. Gussikow possessed a remarkable technique that permitted the musical instrument which he brought into fashion to be appreciated ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various
... on each side; ¢igìni, a holy one, a god. 2, 7. Kaç, now; tsilkè, young man; tcikè, young woman; bakà gi, on the summit, on top of it. 3, 8. Dsil, mountain; ¢ilhyÃl, dark, black; çolÃji, blue. 4, 9. Tsintsoï, great stick, a notched stick used as a musical instrument in the dance. 5, 10. Tsâa bialìli, truly his dance implement; bÃja ye¢igÃngo, his holy treasure, his talisman, his ...
— The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony • Washington Matthews
... would try to remember this, and it seemed easy to remember what the young doctor said, for the voice of Arthur Hazleton was very sweet and clear, and seemed to vibrate on the ear like a musical instrument. ...
— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz
... Berchtold[403] urges the necessity of sketching landscapes and costumes, and better yet, the scientific drawing of engines and complicated machines, and also of acquiring skill on some musical instrument, to keep one from the gaming table in one's idle hours, preferably of learning to play on a portable instrument, such as a German flute. Journals, it goes without saying, must be written every night before the ...
— English Travellers of the Renaissance • Clare Howard |
