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His orchestra contains the usual modern equipment 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, an English horn, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass tuba, kettledrums, glockenspiel, cymbals, 2 harps, and strings; yet one may count on but little more than the fingers of both hands the pages in which this apparatus is employed in its full strength.
To give the effect of lightning, a magnesia torch is most effective. Thunder is simulated by beating slowly on a bass drum. Hoof beats seem quite real when produced by beating two cocoanut shells on marble.
The bees in the purple flowers beneath the window boomed a mellow bass, and the grasshoppers made love by millions in the couch grass, chirring in a thousand fleeting raptures.
So we went down to the yacht-club wharf to see about the boat that belonged to old Menendez Rectus's Minorcan. There were lots of sail-boats there as well as row-boats, but we hunted up the craft we were after, and, by good luck, found Menendez in her, bailing her out. So we engaged her, and he said he'd take us over to the North Beach to fish for bass.
Oak," exclaimed she, disconcerted, "how long have you been here?" "A few minutes, ma'am," said Oak, respectfully. "Are you going in?" said Bathsheba; and there came from within the church as from a prompter I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years. "I was," said Gabriel. "I am one of the bass singers, you know. I have sung bass for several months."
"Here's Flexis what-you-call-ums for you," interrupted a voice, which began in a shrill falsetto and ended in a gruff bass, as a flushed, dusty, long-legged boy burst in, with a bleeding hand obligingly extended for inspection. "Mercy on us, Harry! what have you done to yourself now? Split your fingers with a cricket-ball again?" cried Psyche, as her arms went up and her book went down.
My friend, having excavated himself a couch among the troublesome prickly seeds of this plant, was soon snoring another senile trait snoring in a rhythmical bass accompaniment to their song. I envied him. How some people can sleep! It is a thing worth watching. They shut their eyes, and forget to be awake.
"Cynthia," she said, "those articles were written by politicians, in a political controversy. No such articles can ever be taken literally." "Miss Lucretia, do you believe what it says about Jethro Bass?" repeated Cynthia. How was she to avoid those eyes? They pierced into, her soul, even as her own had pierced into Mrs. Merrill's.
The storm raged furiously all night, the thunder roared, the lightning, darting forth from the dark sky, flashed ever and anon, in a zigzag course, from side to side of the cliffs around the bay, and the howling wind threatened frequently to tear off the sail and carry it away. Still the weary seamen slept, although Harry and young Bass did not for a long time close their eyes.
Bob was willing to call him "Uncle Jethro," admire his great strength and shrewdness, and declare that the men he had outwitted had richly deserved it. But Jethro Bass as the ward of Cynthia Wetherell was quite another thing. It was not only that Cynthia had suddenly and inevitably become a lady.
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