"Pianissimo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mine these hills and fields, which put Not on the sanctity of her foot. Far off, my dear, far off the sweet Grave pianissimo of your feet! My earth, perchance, your sway abjures?— Your absence broods O'er all, a subtler presence. Woods, Fields, ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson
... putting boisterous vigor into the tunes. In a pianissimo passage he heard one cousin whisper to the ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... variety of the movements is somewhat disconcerting for the conductor. And, in addition to this, the traitor triangle (proh pudor!) [Oh shame!], however excited he may be to strike strong with his cunning little rhythm, marked pianissimo, provokes the most ...
— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End" • Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated
... floating; purling, flowing &c v.; whispered &c v.; liquid; soothing; dulcet &c (melodious) 413; susurrant^, susurrous^. Adv. in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce [Lat.], between the teeth, aside; piano, pianissimo; d la sourdine^; out of earshot inaudibly ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
