I will take up some other books on the diapason which I have, and so will keep my ideas fresh on the subject until this lady is done with the book.
People who studied the logarithms of the diapason would not be apt to think a man crazy for such a little thing as that.
Mazarin jumped by a note and a half to reply above the diapason of his usual voice.
The object of them was the need of adapting the instrument to modern requirements, so that it might be used in concert with others that have been improved, and allow the diapason to be raised.
The roar of Rock Island died down in muffled diminuendo, and it seemed mighty good to have that diapason muttering in bafflement astern rather than growling in anticipation ahead.
Then the passengers sang a simple Christmas carol, Miss Raymond leading with her pure soprano, and Bob chiming in like the diapason of an organ.
By the aid of little knobs on the instrument, the diapason can be changed to an extent that you would not credit, for it has reference to a system different to yours.
The descent to normal diapason comes sooner or later, no matter how highly strung the instrument may be to begin with, and melodrama fades into padding.
Hold her straight," cried Okanagan, in a breathless roar, and Seaforth just heard his voice through the diapason of the river.
For a time he saw nothing but froth and spray and flitting stone, and then the roar that came back from the towering walls swelled into a great diapason terrifying and bewildering.
Gabriel wondered, his thoughts seeming to hum and roar in his head, in harmony with the shuddering diapason of the muffler-deadened exhaust.
But they have the sense to be silent when they hear the roll of that untrembling diapason that makes all things tremble.
As they sweep along through its slow and solemn movement as regularly as the swing of a pendulum, the organ's mighty diapason upholding the whole and keeping them together, it is like the voice of many waters.
The first sounds that greeted me through the open window were the songs of the birds, the sea-like diapason of the wind in the elm-trees on the lawn, and the animating song of the river in the glen.
Never did that infinite diapason which we call the roar of London sound so sweet, never did those long, lighted, busy streets seem so habitable, as on that night when I returned from my casual inspection of Dawes' farm.
To these the organ, making use of diapason work only, formed a background, and it was not allowed to predominate over them.
Its diapasonwould therefore be a four-feet register.
And two days later John Cardigan returned to rest forever--with his lost mate among the Giants, himself at last an infinitesimal portion of that tremendous silence that is the diapason of the ages.
Suddenly, out of the deep, rumbling diapason he heard a sharp click-- then another and another.
