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Example sentences for "crotchets"

Lexicographically close words:
crost; crotch; crotched; crotches; crotchet; crotchety; crotons; crouch; crouched; crouches
  1. It must be observed, that the crotchets in triple time are in general played by musicians slower than those of common time, and hence minuets are generally pricked in triple time, and country dances generally in common time.

  2. The fourth bar consists of quavers and crotchets alternately.

  3. Mainly, we unhesitatingly reply, through the influence exerted by certain crotchets entertained by the bodies themselves on their political standing.

  4. But as a man interested in the fate of le Sens Commun, I hold in profound disdain all crotchets for revolutionising the elements of Human Nature.

  5. Crotchets are employed for the same purpose nearly as the parenthesis.

  6. Crotchets are employed for nearly the same purpose as the parenthesis.

  7. Thus from self-love or wilfulness or vanity they work their own humours and crotchets and fancies into the matter, or overlay it with some self-pleasing quirks of peculiarity.

  8. But about you and Roddie,--do you mean to say that for his church crotchets he has dragged you out of the old manse where you were born?

  9. Three even crotchets with judicious tempo rubato would give it.

  10. Where the beat is in crotchets it sounds unduly slow:-- [Music: 5th Figure.

  11. For some of Mike's crotchets I am indebted to this old friend of his.

  12. A crotchety person, according to this same Noah Webster, whom I have quoted before, is one who has whims or crotchets in the brain.

  13. His head is as full of crotchets as it can hold.

  14. The crotchets are natural and unavoidable in one case--the warts are natural and unavoidable in the other.

  15. But he had his crotchets about an act of charity, as well as about every thing else.

  16. Well, warts and corns are to the body what whims and crotchets are to the mind.

  17. Then why may not my book on crotchets find readers?

  18. But warts and crotchets are both found among mankind.

  19. Now, who knows but these crotchets will be worth hearing about?

  20. Listen, while I tell you a crisp anecdote that may help to throw light on the crotchets of my character.

  21. It is of no use; you can not thus lay light finger on the crotchets of man's 'most sovereign reason;' do not try.

  22. His companions are crotchets and quavers.

  23. Many a tyro who plunges into the stream of Bach's crotchets and quavers soon finds himself encompassed by a whirlpool of seeming impossibilities, and is frequently heard to exclaim that the passages are impracticable.

  24. Short detached crotchets may be played with the upper half of the bow.

  25. Four crotchets slurred, are to be played with the same kind of bowing as Ex.

  26. Smooth detached crotchets may be played with the upper half of the bow.

  27. The scales in crotchets may be played with martelé bowing, using whole bow-strokes as previously explained in the remarks on early exercises.

  28. In practising studies in detached crotchets after the style of Ex.

  29. Detached quavers should be practised with the upper third of the bow, in the same manner as the crotchets in Ex.

  30. I never paid much attention to Neighbor's crotchets before I met Ruth.

  31. Luke Shepard felt immensely superior at this time to Mr. Northrup with his crotchets and foibles.

  32. The Essenian society gain nothing by absorption of the individual in the community, and you will gain nothing, but quite the reverse, by asserting your individual crotchets to the destruction of the Church.

  33. It is entirely free from all casuistical crotchets and distinctions without a difference.

  34. Great men as well as little men have singular crotchets in their heads sometimes; and if these crotchets cannot be altered, they will go on in such a monotonous tone that they never get out of it.

  35. Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

  36. Crotchets that grew ever madder, the farther he followed them.

  37. It must be owned he rises into the fantastic here and there; and has crotchets of ultraperfection for his Army, which are not rational at all.

  38. The squat little Spanish peasant is not more gloriously incapable of following the chivalric vagaries of his master than the simple soldier is of grasping the philosophic crotchets of his brother.

  39. It is a great thing to lay ourselves out, and hold ourselves open to discern and appreciate the work of God in souls, and not to mar it by placing our own miserable crotchets as stumbling-blocks in their pathway.

  40. Along the mighty profile of the hill a fringe of little black crotchets advanced.

  41. Suddenly reinforcements arrive, hundreds of them; the whole sky-line bristles with crotchets moving swiftly along it, bending forward almost double, as if driving through a hailstorm.

  42. Landor had many queer crotchets about spelling, and always absolutely declined to follow any rule but his own.

  43. Sinclair is as good an apostle of my crotchets as I could be, only he is not in the House.

  44. You will have my uncle's real kindness without his crotchets and his dictatorial manner.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crotchets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.