"Tunable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feete we haue not, nor as yet neuer went about to frame (the nature of our language and wordes not permitting it) we haue in stead thereof twentie other curious points in that skill more then they euer had, by reason of our rime and tunable concords or simphonie, which they neuer obserued. Poesie therefore may be an Art in our vulgar, and ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham
... ridicule of the bruit of a marriage at a time of life as terrible to her as her fiction of seventy had been to General Ople; she resigned herself to let things go with the tide. She had not been blissful in her first marriage, she had abandoned the chase of an ideal man, and she had found one who was tunable so as not to offend her ears, likely ever to be a fund of amusement for her humour, good, impressible, and above all, very picturesque. There is the secret of her, and of how it came to pass that a simple man and a complex woman ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Your eyes are lode-stars and your tongue's sweet air, More tunable than lark to shepherd's ear, When wheat is green, when hawthorn ...
— Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood • Grace Greenwood
... assured of their Haunts, closely lodge yourself, and softly at first call; lest being near you, a loud Note affright them; and no Reply made, raise your Note gradually, to the highest; and if there be a Pheasant in hearing, he will answer you, in as loud a Note. Be sure it be Tunable. As soon as you are answered, creep nearer to it; if far off, and a single Fowl, as you call, and approach, so will the Pheasant. Having gotten sight of her, on the Ground, or Perch, cease calling, and with all silence possible, spread your Net conveniently, between the ...
— The School of Recreation (1696 edition) • Robert Howlett
... his sins: for the royal prophet, who invites all creatures, even dragons and serpents, to sound forth the praises of God, passes by sinners as unworthy to be allowed a place in that sacred choir: they are ignominiously ejected, as a musician cuts off a string that is not tunable with the rest. ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... voice was a sweet tremble in mine ear, Made tunable with every saddest grief, Till those sad eyes, ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... a shout the tunable bells broke forth, rocking the tower. Someone seized Taffy's college cap and sent it spinning over the battlements. Caps? For a second or two they darkened the sky like a flock of birds. A few gowns followed, expanding as they dropped, like clumsy parachutes. The company—all ...
— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... more tunable Was never halloed to, nor cheered with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, or ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... very sweet and tunable voice speak, and the voice asked, "When the air is so brisk with kisses, is there never a kiss for me?" And I looked up from the lips of Barbara and saw that my very dear friend, Messer Guido Cavalcanti, was newly of ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy |
