United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In a swampy field some labourers were draining the ground with great effort. From the train we saw the island of Elba, and Capraia, and the sea as blue as indigo. "'Mare nostro, said an elegant gentleman in a fluty voice, and pointed out something on the horizon which he said was Corsica, and he said that it can be seen from far away.
Before he could reach it there came a thumping at the door, and a fluty voice cried: "Lemme in, puppa, lemme in!" Turnham threw the door open, and admitted a sturdy two-year-old, whom he led forward by the hand. "My son," he said, not without pride. Mahony would have coaxed the child to him; but it ran to its mother, hid its face in her lap. Forgetting the bell John struck an attitude.
There is something of Haydn at his best in this and in the fluty "Shadow Song," in "The Kiss in the Rain," and "A Sailor's Lassie," for they are as crystalline and direct as "Papa's" own immortal "Schäferlied." Constantin Sternberg. Wilson G. Smith, Op. 39. Smith has gone over to the great majority, the composers who have set "Du bist wie eine Blume;" but he has joined those at the top.
Their lips let off the fluty syllables just as their fingers would sprinkle the music-drops from their pianos; unconscious habit turns the phrase of thought into words just as it does that of music into notes. Well, they govern the world, for all that, these sweet-lipped women, because beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. The Bombazine wanted an explanation.
When they feed and they seem always to be feeding or carrying food their chatter is perpetual and varied in tone. Occasionally a male bird sets himself to beguile the time with song. Then his flame-red eyes flash with ardour, his head is thrown back, a sparkling ruffle appears on his otherwise satiny smooth neck, and the tune resembles that of a well-taught canary more fluty but briefer.
But the tone in which she said it caused him a second thrill almost more delightful than the first, for the quality was low and fluty, like the gentle note of some mellow wind instrument, and the caressing way she pronounced his name was a revelation. Mr. Skale had known how to make it sound dignified, but this girl did more she made it sound alive.
Shall I hear every word you say?" "Every word. Now sit still there, and hold my" carpet bag for me, and mark what you hear." The light footstep came closer, halting occasionally, as if the walker listened for a sound. Troy whistled a double note in a soft, fluty tone. "Come to that, is it!" murmured Boldwood, uneasily. "You promised silence." said Troy. "I promise again." Troy stepped forward.
"All be still, neighbors, and let Adam tell us the same things he's been saying for these many months, and then we'll let him shuck his fine clothes and come on home in my rockaway with us." "No, with us!" fairly yelled Cloverbend in unison of protest with Providence. "Thank you, Aunt Mary," said Pan in the fluty tenderness with which he had always addressed her.
The suite includes a "Misericordia" depicting a midnight cortège along the Arno, and modelled on Chopin's funeral march in structure with its hoarse dirge and its rich cantilena. The best number of the suite is surely the "Rusignuolo," an exceedingly fluty bird-song.
Word Of The Day