How funny," murmured the girl; "is it as out of tune as all that?
She could not play a tune and the fingers of her left hand never touched the strings--they merely held the handle.
When you ask a question aloud, your asking it at once puts the mediums in tune with one another, because they hear the same thing at the same time.
It pointed out that the task of the mediums was to get thoroughly in tune one with another, but that this was quite impossible so long as the Commandant created cross-currents of thought-waves by worrying.
That last tune of Bekir’s reminds me of one I heard from a witch doctor in Togoland,”[49] I said to the Pimple.
If too far away they are not affected at all, and to keep in tune they must be affected by the movement.
How was he to know he was getting into tune with the opposition?
That puts you in tune with them instead of with me.
The singing stopped altogether, except that one and another old woman off in the corners held the tune with shaky voices.
For it didn't help us at all for him to insist that he heard the tune plainly in his head.
The clerk in the meantime had risen to the occasion, for at the very instant that the goat went head over heels down the steps, he took up the tune just where he had left off, and sang all the way up the aisle.
Truth to say, the essential goodness of the tune comes out by means of these enlivening words.
The poet's memory goes back a hundred years only to reach "The bands-man Avison whose little book and large tune had led him the long way from to-day.
To this end he sets a patriotic poem to the tune of Avison's march, in honor of our old friend, Pym.
Could my soul find aught to sing in tune with Even at this lecture, if she tried?
The spirit of spring is in every thing, The banners of spring are streaming, We march to a tune from the fifes of June, And life's a dream worth dreaming.
O monstrous pipes, melodious With fitful tune and dream, The clouds are your only audience, Her thought is your only theme!
Pipe the flutes, squeak the violins; four blind men in a row at the interment of a tune .
Maniwel’ll maybe fiddle another tuneif Baldwin holds to his word and sacks Jagger,” returned Swithin complacently.
To Duke Street tune were their fine voices strung, And thus verses went off charmingly, While through the distant woods their loud notes rung.
Remember Me' should make our love to spring Like water gushing from a fountain clear, And tune our hearts each time afresh to sing The praise of Jesus, and should make us rear Our Ebenezer high as we to heaven draw near.
Then the Doxology at once they raise To the "Old Hundred," the immortal air, The clear, full harmony of which displays Such skill that mortals now may well despair Of making better tune though they have talents rare.
Remove the film that does becloud the eye Of my dark understanding while I sing; O, guide my trembling fingers, for I'll try To tune my harp, and touch its every string.
No invitation came To bid me tune my simple lyre-- To fan my low poetic fire, Nor yet a hope of deathless fame Which might for risk, serve me for hire.
It was a concert to hear the Lad tune it; which he did with a bold and skilful touch, and the exactness of an ear which nature had made exquisitely true to time and chord.
Can ye liven up, Lad, and give 'em a tunethat will set 'em whirlin'?
In three hours from the tune them ants gets the word from the Apaches, they've done eat the nephy up, an' the last vestitch of him plumb disappears with the last ant, as the latter resoomes his labors onder the earth.
At almost the same time the Antoinette monoplane made its appearance, and soon these two similar machines were pitted against each other in a famous contest.
Often far into the night they continued to play their silent role in the great drama of war.
Who knew whether this air above the clouds was fit to breathe?
Robert's voice especially was untuneable, and his ear so dull, that it was with difficulty he could distinguish one tune from another.
KING What is the tuneyou strike up, touch the string.
KING And more to arm your resolution, I'll tune this Churchman so, that he shall chime In sounds harmonious, merit to that man Whose hand has but a finger in that act.
He set me down to tune Harpsichords, a mere mechanical employment, not at all to my taste.
He can bring a tune over the seas, and thinks it more excellent because far-fetched.
My ditty must go thus; very witty, I assure you: I myself in an humorous passion made it, to the tune of my mistress Nutriche's beauty.
The manual musician sounded thetune of "You round-headed cuckolds, come dig, come dig!
Oh, what love is it in Him that He will have such musicians as we are, to tune that psalm of His everlasting praises in heaven!
Oh, if I could make a love song of Him, and could commend Christ, and tune His praises aright!
A little more strength at our backs, and I had made him dance to the tune of this sword of mine.
How I longed for a blushing maiden to tune her harp, or chant her song, just then!
Sufficient justice is not done to Sandys, who did more to polish and tune the English versification by his Psalms and his Job, than those two writers, who are usually applauded on this subject.
If all the girls could play a tune or two and knew a little more French, the world would not be so proud of one-finger melodies, or isolated syllables of Gallic, that we can vouch are incomprehensible to the native understanding.
They seemed to me like a triumphant tune set to pealing chords.
Well, it is for the young 'uns to call for the tune now.
Julius took up his banjo and began totune it for an accompaniment to his songs.
The Boy bent low over the squirming pair and his voice was in perfect tune with his dog's low growl: "Eat him up, Bone!
Miss Hobart had substituted the name of Temple instead of Price, which she made to agree both with the measure and tune of the song.
He laughed again, and whistled the burden of the tune he had sung at the door.
It sent the most insurrectionary tuneinto the world that was ever composed.
They believed that foreigners had no independent spirit, as never being escorted to the poll in droves by Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle, with colours flying and the tune of Rule Britannia playing.
Here's the Stop,' said Pancks, 'that sets the tuneto be ground.
If he divined what was in her thoughts, his own were not in tune with it.
