And it's just those particular pins and needles of yours which have found the thing out," returned Cleek in the sharp staccato of excitement.
I may even execute the notes with a good staccato or legato (again illustrating with his voice) and still, having no words to go by, I make no effect on my listeners.
Gervais laughed softly with a hissing chuckle, and Speranski in a high-pitched staccato manner.
While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh--a laugh such as one hears on the stage.
Their myriad lights shone from dusty windows, row upon row, and the staccato chatter of the looms sounded ceaselessly.
Its open windows vomited the staccato chatterings of the myriad looms.
At last he came into a section of the city where vast mills, one succeeding another in rows which vanished in the distance, clacked their everlasting staccato of hurrying looms, venting clamor from the thousands of open windows.
Lanzetti must have carried out with great skill the staccato touch both up and down the instrument.
His power and agility in bowing as well as his staccato playing in up and down strokes were famous.
The other came an hour later, clear and distinct, that same wailing howl at the beginning--but ending in a staccato of quick sharp yelps that stirred his blood at once into a fiery excitement that it had never known before.
A wild chattering, intermingled with pig-like squeaks, and then a rising staccato of howls followed the attack.
Suddenly the painter appeared at the door of the studio, and made staccato signs for them to come in.
The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
The chief movement in the staccato bowing is distinctly a wrist-one, the first finger playing a great part in giving crispness and attack to each note.
The first attempts at the staccato bowing may be made on one string, after the fashion of Ex.
The staccato may be played with the down-bow, the wrist and arm movements being simply the reverse of those in the up-bow.
Although this lack of clearness in our system of musical notation is to be regretted, one cannot help but think that this very general way of expressing the whole variety of detached staccato bowing, is really a gain to the artist.
This should be made the foundation of the staccato stroke.
The above kind of staccato must not be confounded with solid staccato.
Slurred spiccato is very useful as a relief to the staccato proper.
As their noise grew louder the strumming of the machine guns mingled with it and their staccato was always distinguishable even amid the ear crushing thunder of the high explosives.
You hear the staccato barking of his mitrailleuse and see him pass from under the German's tail.
Gritting his teeth, Deacon bent to his work, his eyes fixed upon the swaying body of the coxswain, whose sharp staccato voice snapped out the measure; the beat of the oars in the locks came as one sound.
Then let there be elected a supervisory board of trusty guardians, men absolutely above the reproach of having played the concertina or plunked staccato tunes on a banjo.
Instantly from a point dead ahead rose another, grooving into the echo of the first in a staccato yelp.
This may be followed by something to illustrate the different kinds of staccato and legato playing; the many varieties of rhythm, special pedal effects, &c.
Six rifles crashed like a thunderclap, there was a staccato flick-flack as the bullets struck the leaves, and two screams of anguish.
The lokali on the high watch tower of the city beat its staccato call for help and some of the villagers about answered.
It is a staccato jotting down of impressions, chiefly interesting (as is Dr.
Another peal rolled forth, dull and distant, tailing off into a sort of staccato rapping rattle.
Tim's laugh was allegro and crescendo at the first, and staccato at the close.
Men were repairing fences, and doing other Winter work in the fields, and from the woods came the ringing staccato of choppers.
The staccato crack of guns sounded sharply above the deeper roar of the mob.
Val beat the swift time with her fist on the stone sill, and her dangling feet moved staccato to the tune.
Ah, how long his insistent staccato kept striking the troubled air.
Over the uproar of the crowd could be heard the sharp staccato click of the telegraph wires.
Riding across the plains toward the claim one afternoon, I heard the swift, staccato clicking of type as it fell rapidly in the stick.
At midnight we heard thestaccato beats of a horse's hoofs.
