Thus there are very many hindrances to a fine development of the voice, oftentimes in the most beautiful compositions of our times, hindrances, which many of our composers are more or less chargeable with putting in the way.
Almost all men speak and sing in one register--tenors mostly in the second chest register, bassos mostly in the first, and oftentimes indeed not even in a correct natural manner.
And oftentimes we see a man a shore or twaine, Who strait brings out his Almadie and rowes to vs a maine.
Item, who so speaketh any opprobrious or contumelious wordes in reuiling or cursing one another, for so oftentimes as he hath reuiled, shall pay so many ounces of siluer.
When so many turbulent chieftains, oftentimes at feud amongst themselves, met together, it was necessary to keep the peace of Tara by very stringent regulations, enforced under the most rigorous penalties.
Frequent reference is subsequently made in our Annals to the monastery and See of Clonfert, but it is oftentimes a saddening record.
Which thing albeit ech man wote well dailie happeneth to them, to whom no such mischance is toward; yet hath it beene of an old rite and custome obserued, as a token oftentimes notablie foregoing some great misfortune.
Oftentimes I have thought it strange that one could walk through the woods and mountains and plains for years without seeing a single blood-spot.
They pursued and pecked away at them until they killed and devoured them, oftentimes quarreling over the division of the spoil, though it was not easily divided.
My screams over so great a loss brought mother, darkest corners of the house, and oftentimes a long search was required to find me.
The staff of life, naturally beautiful, oftentimes suggested the grave-digger's spade.
My room was regarded as a sort of show place by the professors, who oftentimes brought visitors to it on Saturdays and holidays.
Oftentimes on a broad meadow near Dunbar we stood for hours enjoying their marvelous singing and soaring.
Oftentimes we went home with singed hair and faces well peppered with powder-grains that could not be washed out.
Oftentimes fleets of half a dozen or more were started together in exciting races.
As the time approached for this terrible bathing, I used to hide in the flowers and had a fine garden surrounded by an iron fence, through the bars of which, when I thought no one saw me, I oftentimessnatched a flower and took to my heels.
It is then that they are most easily shot, a solitary hunter oftentimes shooting thirty or forty in a single day.
Oftentimes when we were fishing for some other kinds over the edge of the boat, a pickerel that we had not noticed would come like a bolt of lightning and seize the fish we had caught before we could get it into the boat.
Besides these, there is hardly a respectable house among the white merchants, in which some important office, oftentimes the head clerkship, is not filled by a person of color.
During slavery these villages were oftentimes a scene of bickering, revelry, and contention.
These were the people that so often dropped down and fainted in the streets; for oftentimes they would go about the streets to the last, till on a sudden they would sweat, grow faint, sit down at a door, and die.
Calaber, Theocritus, Pliny, Athenaeus, and others, the soul doth oftentimes foresee what is to come.
Oftentimes did he spit in the basin, and fart for fatness, piss against the sun, and hide himself in the water for fear of rain.
According to the purpose and argument of that lesson, he oftentimes gave himself to worship, adore, pray, and send up his supplications to that good God, whose Word did show his majesty and marvellous judgment.
Oftentimes was he wont to say, that the world had not yet known the emolument and utility that is in wearing great codpieces; but time would one day teach it them, as all things have been invented in time.
Yet, as she is a wife, she is oftentimesthe end of her husband.
Miss Patricia delivered her harangues in English regardless of the fact that the French clerks were oftentimes unable to understand a word of what she was saying.
In spite of Miss Graham's objection to kings, I believe her family and friendsoftentimes call her 'Princess'.
That which thou wouldst not, thou must oftentimes do; and that which thou wouldst, thou must leave undone.
According to the purpose and argument of that lesson, he oftentimes gave himself to revere, adore, pray, and send up his supplications to what good God whose word did show His majesty and marvelous judgments.
Such also is oftentimes thy desire, which thou hast profest to be so importunate.
Still he wallowed in the mire, blackened his face, trod down his shoes at heel; at the flies he did oftentimes yawn, and willingly run after the butterflies, the empire whereof belonged to his father.
Oftentimes did I essay By the death-noose to perish wretchedly, Or by the bitter sword; but still they stayed Mine hand, and still spake comfortable words To salve my grief for thee and my sweet child.
For grim necessity oftentimes inspires The very coward with courage of despair.
Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty too.
It is thy dutyoftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
The eye of a stranger rests coldly on such revelations; their simple pathos is hard to be understood; and they smile oftentimes at the quaintness of those passages which make others weep.
It is true these street promenadings of the nobility were not oftentimeswithout inconvenience and molestation.
But there were also cloudy moments in Montebello, oftentimes overshadowing the serene sunshine.
You have not heard me; you know, however, with what smoothness calumny oftentimes whispers.
The love of plants and flowers had ever remained fresh amid the storms and sorrows which in the last years had passed over her heart, and oftentimes she had sought in the study of botany forgetfulness and refreshment.
Letitia's words and example had penetrated the soul of the child with the highest emotions of honor and human dignity, and the little boy of seven years exhibited oftentimes the sentiments of honor, pride, and obstinacy of a man.
After this they sat patient and content--nay, oftentimes quite merry, for Agatha strove hard to amuse her companion.
The gray is shy, and oftentimes stealthy in his movements, as if half expecting an enemy in every tree and bush, and back of every log, wishing only to be let alone apparently, and manifesting no desire to be seen or admired or feared.
I oftentimes think of Shelley's cloud poem, "I sift the snow on the mountains below.
I have oftentimes found the curious twining lily (Stropholirion Californicum) climbing its branches, showing no fear but rather congenial companionship.
And oftentimes will start, For overhead are sweeping Gabriel's hounds, Doomed, with their impious lord, the flying hart To chase for ever on aerial grounds.
Local traditions show how the most unlikely spots, which can boast of little or no romance, are supposed to be frequented by ghosts; the wayfarer along some country road having oftentimes been confronted by an uncanny apparition.
But conduct of this kind seems to be the exception, and ghosts are oftentimesinvoked at Christmastide by those anxious to have a foretaste of events in store for them.
The spirits of suicides wander, and hence cross-roads in various parts of the country are oftentimes avoided after dark, on account of being haunted by headless and other uncanny apparitions.
Strange noises are oftentimes a puzzle to the miner, and suggest a supernatural agency.
Oftentimes she is not seen but only heard, yet she is supposed to be always clearly discernible to the person upon whom she specially waits.
The cruel custom, of urging useful and noble animals beyond their strength, is much the same in savage as in civilized life; but the scene is oftentimes more wild, strange, and picturesque than you can imagine.
A scalping-knife is oftentimes no more than a rudely formed butcher's knife, with one edge, and the Indians wear them in beautiful scabbards under their belts.
I cherished the image as my dearest possession, and oftentimes when I would have embarked upon some madness I refrained, fearing the reproof of those grave eyes.
I will take my oath there was no thought of guile in the maid, for she was as innocent as a child; but 'tis such who are oftentimes the very devil, since their inexperience adds an edge to their folly.
And after this I lay two days and two nights, and on the third night I weened oftentimes to have passed, and so weened they that were with me.
As homeward through the lane I went with lazy feet, This song to myself did I oftentimes repeat, And it seem'd as I retrac'd the ballad line by line That but half of it was hers, and one half of it was mine.
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