Down on the street some men were playing mandolinsand guitars, and singing in mellow passionate voices; the plaintive minor refrain of the stornelli rose in the still night, and the girl's heart ached with the beauty of it all.
The still air throbbed with the haunting strains of voices, mandolins and guitars.
The indescribable jazz music was see-sawing in and out of harmony, and if there were anything actually shy on the score it was more than plentifully supplied by the "ukes," mandolins and banjos of the visiting college boys.
With Musard concerts and Wilhelm music-meetings all around them, it is wonderful that they do not catch the note of something better than their villanous mandolins and single-noted pipes.
These musicians began with a symphony on the full band--mandolins leading, drums doing bass, and the whole lot of ugly fellows screeching forth what might have been esteemed air or accompaniment, as the case might be.
But there was the same quiet and warmth and from somewhere came the strains of mandolins in love, calling to Maria.
A very attractive Debutante knew two Young Men, who called on her every Thursday Evening and brought their Mandolins along.
They unlimbered theirMandolins and began to play a Sousa March.
The Fact that they went Calling in a Crowd, and took theirMandolins along, may give the Acute Reader some Idea of the Life that Fred and Eustace held out to the Young Women of their Acquaintance.
To the persistent tinkle of the mandolins below a tenor voice sang 'Addio, bella Napoli!
He skilfully arranged contiguity with her when they sat on the balcony after dinner and listened to the mandolins in the road below.
Would you prefer a dinner by moonlight on the rocks of Tragara with a couple of mandolins in the distance, or would you like better a party in the hotel gardens with an illumination of paper lanterns?
Can you not imagine that a young girl's disposition may be softened by moonlight, mandolins and night breezes?
Music of mandolins and guitars heard off to the right with song--"The Fisherman's Song.
The sunset is deepening to golden red; the "Fishermen's Song" begins with mandolinsand guitars, and then a number of voices are heard together.
She is followed by three musicians (two mandolins and a guitar), who laughingly continue the song.
After dinner, the fellows sat out on the porch, strumming mandolins and singing.
Some lay down on the grass and three or four began to strummandolins and guitars.
The pleasant tinkle of the mandolins was wafted upward to him, and it was wonderfully soothing, telling of peace and rest.
We'll take our mandolins and guitars into the moonlight and make things pleasant generally.
Above the song of the brook that seemed like a tender accompaniment to the tinkle of the mandolins the music rose, and old Joe woke from his dream of pain.
Up at "The Pines" all was light and laughter and music, for a crowd of young folks were gathered 'neath its hospitable roof and guitars and mandolins made the whole house ring with melody of a more or less penetrating quality.
We had supped well, the mandolins were now tinkling, incessantly, and this, mingled with the silvery tones of glasses touched in eager pledges, created an ensemble of sounds dear to the heart of every true Bohemian.
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