The trumpeters and other musicians of the Signoria were never absent from any procession, and cheerful tunes accompanied every festival.
Afterwards, as the next best substitute, he would take to drumming tunes upon the window-panes.
You may be right, but I do not see why dance tunes should not be employed episodically in a symphony, even with the avowed intention of giving a touch of coarse, everyday humour.
I could not use them for an album of folksongs, because for this purpose thetunes must be taken down exactly as the people sing them.
The war between England and France for the possession of Canada gave rise to many ditties the tunes of which remained popular long afterward.
It ought to have made everybody happy, yet here was Rico, sitting with Silvio in the midst of all this luxury and beauty, playing the most melancholy tunes he could think of.
So it happened time after time until Rico had played all the tunes he knew.
He went over all the tunes he knew and finally played the melody and sang the song that he had learned from the grandmother the previous evening.
Of the tunes and marches ascribed to him, some are said to have been inspired by the Trolls, one he heard from the devil himself, another he made to save his life, &c.
Hans's songs and tuneswere sung and danced to, and they were for ever planning how they could manage to meet the young farmer of Haugen.
The lifts on the chime-barrel are all epicycloidal curves; and there are 6,000 holes pierced upon the barrel for the lifts, so as to allow the tunes to be varied.
One in particular, that of the frozen tunes which began to play of themselves as soon as they thawed, has been found in some form in several countries.
I was waked in the morning by the old North chimes, which played all sorts of psalm tunes and seemed to fill the air with beautiful thoughts.
He had been to Doctor Cushing with suggestions as to the tunes that the singers wanted, to keep up the reputation of their "meetin'-house.
Yea, it forgives me all my sins, Fits life to love like rhyme to rhyme, And tunes the task each day begins By the last trumpet-note of Time.
When the clock struck, the shepherd played six tunes on his flute, and the dog approached and fawned upon him.
Some of the latter were very curious, richly set with jewels, having figures in continual movement, and playing tunes every hour; two of these clocks only, cost him thirty thousand pounds.
So the wicked rat-catcher, to whose pipe all the men and women now dance, even though they often declare his tunes horrible, has seized upon you also.
XI Of auricular figures apperteining to single wordes and working by their diuers soundes and audible tunes alteration to the eare onely and not the mynde.
Militant marching tunes mingled with other sadder strains which mourned the nonreturn of friends from the Death Plains of the crimson East.
The afternoon of that day Peace spent in a public-house at Ecclesall, entertaining the customers by playing tunes on a poker suspended from a piece of strong string, from which he made music by beating it with a short stick.
He taught himself to play tunes on a violin with one string, and at entertainments which he attended was described as "the modern Paganini.
Every one seems to agree that there is a certain danger in mixing these infinitely subtle and "syncopated" tunes of prose with the easily recognized tunes of verse.
A rough justice is done at last, no doubt, but for a long time the cleverest and most original manipulators of words and tunes are likely to be judged by their virtuosity alone.
The free verse of Whitman, Henley and Matthew Arnold is full of these embedded fragments of recognized "tunes of verse," mingled with the unidentifiable tunes of prose.
Prose writer and poet might mean to tell precisely the same tale, but in reality they cannot, for one is composing, no matter how cunningly, in the tunes of prose and the other in the tunes of verse.
And I noticed that quite a formidable proportion of them were Jacobite tunes; that is, tunes that had been primarily meant to keep George V out of his throne for ever.
O, to your safety have an eye, So happy may you live and die; Mean while my dayes in tunes I'll spend, Till my weak layes with me shall end.
And when I had done, the Baron said: 'Friend, how many such tunes canst thou play?
HER HEART Her heart is always doing lovely things, Filling my wintry mind with simple flowers; Playing sweet tunes on my untuned strings, Delighting all my undelightful hours.
The Muses love thy shrilly tone; Apollo calls thee all his own; 'Twas he who gave that voice to thee, 'Tis he who tunes thy minstrelsy.
Polly sat drumming tunes on the table, her face turned white, staring out through the window at the noon heat of the plains.
His presence fills each heart with joy, Tunesevery mouth to sing; By day, by night, the sacred courts With glad hosannas ring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tunes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
