Mysticism moved through the world like the sound of lutes over a moonlit sea.
Lutes sounded on terrace and in garden, fair women bloomed like roses, bathed in a sensuous blaze of romance.
A very gentle music of lutes floats out from the temple.
There is more music of lutes for an interval, during which a bright radiance, white and cold, streams from the temple upon the face of Pierrot.
The company had assembled, all being men, and were listening from an open gallery to a concert of lutes and viols, the players being skilfully concealed among the trees of the garden.
The two discant lutes have respectively B and A, the alto G, the tenor E, the bass D, and the great octave bass G, an octave below the alto lute which may be taken as the model lute cultivated by the amateurs of the time.
The bass luteswere theorbos, that is, double-necked lutes, as described below.
Perhaps the earliest lutes were so played, but the large lutesand theorbos strung with catgut have been invariably touched by the fingers only, the length permitting this more sympathetic means of producing the tone.
Then they put off that which was upon them of ornaments and laying aside the lutes [and other] instruments of music, clave to their houses, veiled, and went not forth.
Moreover, the king bade fetch the musicians; so there presented themselves before him a score of damsels, with lutes and psalteries and rebecks, and smote upon instruments of music, on such wise that they moved the assembly to delight.
However, as regards lutes and viols, preference was given already as early as the seventeenth century to old ones, if they were the work of good makers.
No doubt there are some curious old harpsichords and lutes still to be found in Belgium and in the Netherlands--countries in former times distinguished for the cultivation of the art of music.
I have often seen," Mace remarks, "lutes of three or four pounds price far more illustrious and taking to a common eye.
Lutes, with whom she has since been associated under the firm name of Lutes & Lutes.
First peals of thunder we must hear, Then lutes and harps shall stroke the ear.
When Mars appears upon the scene, the orchestra of lutes and cymbals with which we had been lulled to sleep, is exchanged for a Corybantic din of dissonances.
The instrumentalists were trained in the art of copying effects of fugue or madrigal by lutes and viols in concerted pieces.
Its suffusion of emotion in a shimmering atmosphere toned with voluptuous melancholy, seemed to invite the lutes and viols, the mellow tenors, and the trained soprano voices of the dawning age of melody.
The sounds of distant lutes and harps sank down through the hot air.
Fainter and fainter came the sounds of lutes and harps.
All about him throbbed the strange, weird music of zitherns and lutes and the thrumming of the Egyptian Sistrum.
Adore the reed-born god and speed away, While Siddhas flee, lest rain should put to shame The lutes which they devoutly love to play; But pause to glorify the stream whose name Recalls the sacrificing emperor's blessed fame.
Yet love can never fall asleep; For he is waked to-day By songs that all their sweetness keep And lutes that softly play, By fans with sandal-water wet That bring us drowsy rest, By strings of pearls that gently fret Full many a lovely breast.
The Khalif grieved sore for her death and bade break all the vessels and lutes and other instruments of mirth and music in the place; then carrying her body to his closet, he abode with her the rest of the night.
After awhile, in came ten other damsels, with lutes and other instruments of mirth and music in their hands, who saluted the two guests and sitting down, fell to tuning their instruments.
Some were bearing lutes and citharas, hand lamps of gold, silver, and bronze, and bunches of flowers, reared artificially despite the late autumn season.
At times he sprang up to rush out against danger; gave command to pack up his lutes and citharæ, to arm the young slave women as Amazons, and lead the legions to the East.
The contesting singers were accompanied by lutes and viols, while their judges had the support of harps, lyres, viols and other instruments of the same family.
From this we learn that there was an orchestra containing fifes, bag-pipes, two cornets, some viols and lutes and a small organ.
As he slept the heavens opened and seven angels appeared sitting on clouds and making "a most pleasant noise with horns, greater and less viols, lutes and organ.
Lutes differ according to the nature of the vapours which they are destined to confine, and the degree of heat which they are to be exposed to.
And now men appeared, grave and reverend in appearance, bearing lutes in their hands.
The dulcimers, lutes and virginals surprised the visitor coming in from the street, and he stayed his steps as he might on the threshold of a fairy land.
Connla is accompanied by a group of oboes; and another character is allotted three lutes with an arch lute, another a pair of virginals, another a regal, another a set of six sackbuts and trumpets.
Then from gourd-lutes of a weird band of musicians, tinkled out a soft refrain.
Fortunately, in the case immediately before us, it is a Chinese author who tells us that we are to seek for limpid streams rather than for literal lutes or lyres.
The very volume which places lutesand lyres in the Great Canyon, also tells of a forest elsewhere, which is a "Forest of Lutes and Lyres" (note 25.
A forest is composed of trees rather than musical instruments, but it may produce musical tones like those of Lutes and Lyres.
If falling water under certain peculiar acoustic circumstances can produce notes like those struck off from harp-strings, the tones can also be compared to those of lutes or lyres (for all are stringed instruments.
Skil lutes on this river another nation by the name of the Hul-loo-et-tell reside who are Said also to be numerous.
The principal village of the Skil-lutes is Situated on the lower Side of the Cow-e-lis kee river a fiew miles from it's enterance into the Columbia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
