With the young turkey it may be his first gobble on hearing the quaver of the hen.
The soft, gentle quaver of the hen has no effect on the ear of the young gobbler at this season, and he will hearken to no other note or call than that of the young gobbler.
Being assured of, and satisfied with, a well-filled harem, he gives little care to the discordant piping of the hunter, or even the gentle quaver of a hen.
Illustration: The soft, gentle quaver of the hen has no effect on the ear of the young gobbler] When the young gobbler once makes up his mind to go to your call, there is little or no stopping on his part.
I generally use the plain, quaint, easy measured yelp or quaver and cluck of the female; this same call has a hundred variations, but it is not necessary that you employ all of them.
The quaver figure rises aspiringly, and the sustained parts swell out proudly.
The flowing and more or less florid melody has rhythmically a tendency to lean on the second crotchet and even on the second quaver of the bar (see illustration No.
We feel the wheeling motions; and where, at the seventeenth bar of the second part, the quaver figure enters, we think we see the flowing dresses sweeping round.
His voice, too, carried a quaver of weakness in its first syllable.
Through the cobwebbed spaciousness and breathless quiet of the place sounded the ill-omened quaver of a barn owl.
O, not my heart shall quaver If the dark fire more deep Sinks and is sevenfold sevenfold graver.
Then with voice a-quaver He called the East Wind, and the black East ran, Roofing the sky with iron, and in the darkness Winter crept out and chilled the earth again.
Nothing," answered Joyce, but there was a quaver in her voice, and she turned her head aside.
She could not keep a little quaver out of her voice, for, as she went on, all the scenes of all the times that she had sung that song before came crowding up in her memory.
Among the commonest of these tricks is the introduction into all parts of the song of a pronounced quaver or tremulo.
I have never noted any "quaver or tremulo" in the song.
It was too dark to see her face, but my heart bounded with joy to catch in her voice a quaver that argued, methought, regret for me.
Until that moment Diantha had not been sure that she would, but the quaverin Phineas's voice decided her.
The infernal noise jigged on his brain-pan as if every flying crotchet and quaver stamped like the hoof of a little devil in the surface of his brain.
A man of the world would have known the studied quaverin the voice--the throaty, stagey sweetness of it.
I will give them a tune which will break them down," Mr. Quaver whispered to Miss Gamut, as he selected one with a tenor and treble duet, which he and Miss Gamut had sung together a great many times.
Mr. Quaver nudged her to try another verse, but she shook her head.
Mr. Quaver and the old members opposed it, but they were voted down.
It was a strange fugue, but each held on to the end of the verse, the young folks getting out ahead of Mr. Quaver and his flock, and having a breathing spell before commencing the second stanza.
Again, as in other days, Mr. Quaver rubbed his great red nose, as trumpeters wipe their instruments before giving a blast.
Mr. Quaver looked as if he would say, "Put down the upstarts!
Mr. Quaver led, and the choir followed like sheep, all in their own way and fashion.
Mr. Quaver felt very sore over that laugh which the little boy had started.
As Mr. Quaver had told Paul that the school might sing when they pleased, or hold their tongues, he determined to act independently of Mr. Quaver.
Mr. Quaver and the old choir were early in their places.
Through the sermon Mr. Quaver thought the matter over.
Mr. Quaver stamped upon the floor, which brought Mr. Cleff to his senses.
Mr. Quaver did not look round, neither did Miss Gamut, nor any of the old choir.
Where Mr. Quaver blared like a trumpet, Paul sang in clear, melodious notes; and where Miss Gamut broke down, Azalia glided so smoothly and sweetly that every heart was thrilled.
Mr. Quaver did not say all he thought, for he could see that, if the singing-school was kept, he would be in danger of losing his position as chorister.
Harry, in a loud whisper, which had yet a perceptible quaver in it.
