Urtun hiriti urrumoffagariti," say the inhabitants: "Far from the city, far from health.
All epochs are writ large in this monument of mediaevalism.
In the very midst of the most populous and wealthy valleys and plains of the Pyrenees, one sees here the complete gamut of picturesque peoples and costumes in which the country abounds.
The plot is less dramatically coherent than that of 'Le Nozze di Figaro,' but it ranges over a far wider gamut of human feeling.
Nevertheless he had an insane desire to make her laugh like that again, to watch her mobile features run the gamut from sweet, nunlike repose to mirthful riot.
He turned to the last page to ascertain the identity of his correspondent, and his facial expression ran the gamut from surprise to a joy that was good to see.
The gamut of exploit that reaches from the Artful Dodger to Colonel Sellers is alien to him.
But from hidden places and cool shadows come broken sounds and whisperings, which cover the gamut from insects to mammals and unite to make a drowsy and contented murmuring--a musical undertone of amity and goodwill.
Here in British Guiana I can run the whole gamut of gardens, within a few miles of where I am writing.
From the soft tint of rose-ashes to the fiery red of a blinding sun, the whole gamut of colors and effects is used.
There are many canyons, but the Grand Canyon of Arizona is the Mecca of the traveling world; and El Tovar always has the housing of the choice spirits who have run the gamut of tourist delights in other lands.
The girl was after all only a light of love, warbling to perfection the gamut of trickery, witty enough to note the wit of others and to make use of it on occasion, and with only enough heart to feel heartburn when she had eaten too much.
I commend to your special care my piano, and also the large frame containing sixty locks of hair whose different colours run through the whole gamut of capillary shades; the scissors of love have stolen them from the forehead of the Graces.
Schaunard to a new air of his own composition; a terrible air, like a gamut of thunder-claps, the accompaniment whereof was a terror to all pianos within hearing.
When he heard talk of Champagne, Burgundy, and various liqueurs, his physiognomy ran through a whole gamut of astonishment.
The whole question is somewhat obscure, but, in the evolution of musical notation out of the classical alphabetical system, the invention of the medieval gamut is more properly assigned to Hucbald (d.
The sombre moors were warming into crimson when they met the morning sun, and the shadows among the rocks and distant hilltops showed the whole gamut of blues and purple greys.
His fevered thoughts had been labouring up and down a never-ending gamut of feeling, like a prisoner tramping hopelessly up a revolving wheel, ever the same mountain of misery and despair rising before him, toil to surmount it as he might.
Though the distance was short, he ran the whole gamut of emotions before he stopped at a lighted window.
In a few seconds his feelings underwent a tremendous gamut of change, at last to set with the certainty of a man's love for his one woman.
After that,--my dear Vane, you have the gamut of humanity to go.
It was only the beginning of a series of sights and events that, while running the gamutfrom acute tragedy to grim humor, revealed in flashing glimpses the bandit tyrannies that were masquerading as government.
Of such dreams does life invest the daily round with rain-bow mist, with the spectrum gamut of all the colors that blend to the pure white light of daily life.
Always, as the red flush ran the spectrum gamutof the yellows and oranges and greens and blues and purples to the solitary star above the opaline peak, he had wanted to wait and see--what?
In these infamous productions, hatched by celibate pedants in the foul atmosphere of the Jesuit colleges, the gamut of charges always ranges from bad grammar to unnatural crime.
His vocal efforts ran the gamut of the entire scale.
