This work was communal and progressed to the accompaniment of rhythmically repeated word sounds.
Yes, directly," replied Max; and the next minute he went to the door, where Kenneth was performing some kind of festive dance to the accompaniment of a liberal drumming with his doubled fists upon the panels.
But to me Maillot's testimony was scarcely more than a running accompaniment to Alfred Fluette's strange behavior.
She then elicited a confession of my inability to solve the cipher--which confession was yielded up to the accompaniment of an exceedingly sour smile.
And he turned with a smile to where his wife sat in the sunset light, humming a low tune to the accompaniment of her clicking needles.
It was like a chorus of elves sung to the accompaniment of rustling leaves.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra entered Ireland to the accompaniment of ringing cheers, the people being independent of Crown jewels or any other baubles to symbolize their loyalty.
He composed not only the music for the singers, but also an accompaniment for the orchestra.
The audience was amazed to see a small boy take his place at the instrument and play the accompaniment with skill.
No orchestra played while the chorus sang; their only accompaniment was a piano.
Such an astonishing thing has happened," Mrs North was saying breathlessly to the monotonous accompaniment of the diligently-plied needles.
I was glad enough to receive my portion of the bird, and to eat it without the accompaniment of bread or even salt.
There, while he ate sparsely himself, he provided munificently for his new acquaintance, and recommended him, with an accompaniment of silver, to the good offices of the Rouen House kitchen.
Wenceslas Steinbock, on receiving this broadside, with an accompanimentof looks that pierced him like a magnetic flame, bent his head.
I wanted the good pair of nutcrackers badly for the accompaniment of my new fairy piece.
Here and there an amateur among the audience admired the new pieces of music which served as accompaniment to two or three great successes, but they attributed the improvement vaguely to "progress.
Through the door, left ajar, there came, like a lightning-flash, a streak of light with an accompaniment of the crescendo of the orgy and the fragrance of a banquet of the choicest description.
Bayle's voice was not bad, but his extreme nervousness paralysed him, and theaccompaniment would have driven the best vocalist frantic.
The rest of the work is carried out only melodically, though with bar lines drawn, tempi and instrumentation indicated, harmonies, accompaniment figures and basses inserted and each subject given in full.
She felt that harps of heaven alone could provide an adequate accompaniment to such a voice as his; and she gave herself up to it as unreservedly as a bride gives herself to the arms of her lover.
So Thomas came to the house in St. Martin's Street while tea was being served in the drawingroom, to the accompaniment of a duet on the piano--Dr.
Hannah's curses were an accompaniment to further interrogations and gradually became few and far between.
Yavner and the social revolution, to the accompaniment of the rapturous band of the first floor, and then he began to improvise burlesque verses on her as a newcomer, with allusions to her power over Pavel.
When the yard windows were thrown open the bewhiskered captain sat down to the piano and struck up an old national tune, to the accompaniment of two male voices.
Corinne asked Christophe to write music for a piece in which she would speak to the accompaniment of the orchestra, singing a few sentences every now and then.
The fight had a running accompaniment from the partisans of the two belligerents.
At the entrance to the tea-gardens our approach was greeted by the plaintive voice of an old woman, who professed to sing songs to the accompaniment of an instrument of a peculiar kind, covered with snakeskin.
The strange animals opened their huge mouths, and bellowed forth a sound something like the roar of an ox in concert with the grunt of a wild boar, with a little accompaniment of the braying of an ass.
I have undertaken the pianoforte accompaniment myself.
There follows a long, confidential talk between them (recitative with soft accompaniment based on Tatiana's theme).
Tatiana and her sister Olga are singing to the accompaniment of a harp.
The arrangement of this chorus, with accompaniment for string orchestra, was confided to Tchaikovsky.
If I am not mistaken, it will please you, although the accompanimentis rather difficult in places, and this, I fear, will make you angry.
Industry, neatness, and their fitting accompaniment and reward, comfort, were legible throughout the small domain.
At breakfast in the Turkish coffee-house I looked with some amusement at the bread and carrot, discarded the latter, but munched the former to the accompaniment of a plate of chicken and a bottle of wine.
They gave us champagne, the unfailing accompaniment of every social function in South America; but it ought to have been Bavarian beer.
Numerous governors, judges, monks, priests, and singers followed, and behind them rode a curious accompaniment to a martial expedition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accompaniment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
