But they are still riff-raff; and to hand the country over to riff-raff is national suicide, since riff-raff can neither govern nor will let anyone else govern except the highest bidder of bread and circuses.
He went to Wiesbaden to study with Ehlert in 1879, and then to Frankfort, where Carl Heyman taught him piano and Joachim Raff composition.
By a mere coincidence Joachim Raff had written a symphony called "Spring" in 1878, just a year before Paine finished his in America.
Where Raff is uncanny and fiendish, Paine is cheerful and elfin.
For a second movement Raff has a wild "Walpurgis Night Revel," while Paine has a scherzo called "May Night Fantasy.
Think of my mother, or yours, Neil; would you be willing to have her mingle with negroes and common riff-raff at the polls?
One should have seen the fury with which the riff-raff fell upon the [Torah] scrolls, of which there were many in the synagogue.
For though at first the men who went to the gold fields were for the most part young, and strong, and honest, the greed of gain soon brought all the riff-raff of the towns.
But it soon became plain that it would be impossible to found a colony with the wild riff-raff of the sea of which his company was formed.
Behind them were the shopkeepers, and behind the shopkeepers was the riff-raff of the Wells and its satellite villages.
The next morning, on going to the Altenburg with Klindworth, we found Brahms and Remenyi already in the reception-room with Raff and Prueckner.
Raff found reminiscences, in the opening bars, of Chopin's Scherzo in B flat minor, whereupon Brahms answered that he had neither seen nor heard any of this composer's works.
As for my political confession, it is already sent--Raff has edited it!
The heroic stature of the hero delighted him, and his praise moved Raff to revise the opera; but before this had been done Schnorr died of the cold contracted while creating the role of Wagner's Tristan at Munich in 1865.
Raff then gave it to Liszt, with whom he was sojourning at Weimar, and who had taken pity on his "Konig Alfred"; but the tenor singer at the Weimar opera said the music was too high for the voice.
As late as 1882 Raff spoke of taking the opera in hand again, but though he may have done so his death found the work unperformed and it has not yet seen the light of the stage-lamps.
FN#165] Lane supposes that the glass and china-ware had fallen upon the divan running round the walls under the Raff and were not broken.
The very riff-raff rogues they venture To squeeze together in the centre.
What is the land coming to, when such doctrines are preached in the pulpits; when those in authority are told 't is their duty to do what the riff-raff think best?
Where 's the honour in being in command of the riff-raff of the land?
Raff was kind and encouraging to the young American, and once said to him, "Your music will be played when mine is forgotten.
Raff told him to bring it along on the following Sunday, but when that day arrived MacDowell had only the first movement completed, which had been commenced as soon as Raff had left him.
Mina Raff had been wholly justified; the very people who had thrown all their weight against her admitted it fully.
But here was Morris seated with Mina Raff on the stairs to the upper floor, beyond the radius of the fire; and, though they were not ten feet away, he could not hear a word of what they were saying.
And, above all, there must be no appearance of Mina Raff having, after a short trial, herself discarded him.
Mina Raff lost her reality in an unreal charm that compressed his heart.
Lee was conscious of heads turning, and of a faint running whisper-- Mina Raff had been recognized.
Mina Raff should be burned alive, something terrible done to her.
Then he remembered what Mina Raff had told him about her individuality, her personal desire; and he repeated it to his wife.
Mina Raff came," she announced, as he descended the stairs.
Mina Raff gazed at him blankly, this time from under the scallops of the veil.
It was clear to him now that not the Mina Raff in New York, but this, was the important reality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
