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They were walking three abreast, Amabel in the middle. Jim Tenny looked hesitatingly at them, although his face was widened with irrepressible smiles. Eva gazed at them with defiant radiance. "Well," said she, "so luck has turned?" Amabel laughed out, and her laugh trilled high with a note of silver, above the chatter of the crowd and the blare and rhythmic trill of the orchestra.
Yes, I'll attend to everything in the morning. You'd better sleep here." "No, I'm going to the jail and then to the telegraph office." How soft had been the day, how tender the tone of every voice. The road under the moon was white and from a persimmon tree in an old field came the trill of a mockingbird. Two happy men were riding toward an old home. "And here is where he fell," said Alf.
They might have taken up their station in his breast, too, for he was blithe and merry. There was quite a fresh trill in his voice, when, arriving at the counting-house in St Mary Axe, and finding it for the moment empty, he trolled forth at the foot of the staircase: 'Now, Judah, what are you up to there? The old man appeared, with his accustomed deference.
Let the moon beam over me soft and serene, Let the dawn shed over me its radiant flashes, Let the wind with sad lament over me keen; And if on my cross a bird should be seen, Let it trill there its hymn of peace to my ashes.
The summer after, when he built a new house, he had this verse placed upon it as an inscription: "Accept God's gifts with resignation, Content to lack what thou hast not: In every lot there's consolation; There's trouble, too, in every lot." From "Christian and Leah." Translated by A.S. Arnold. Through the open window came the clear trill of a canary singing blithely in its cage.
But at noon, when the sun is casting down its hottest rays upon that vast emerald palace of life, gay voices are hushed and the forest echoes only with the drowsy buzzing of insects. As evening draws near the birds once more begin to chirp and trill, they salute the setting sun and fly away to rest.
As he opened the door to the hall, he heard a rustle; and he saw a dark figure hastening over to the room that opened on the court. Left alone, Dorothea stared for a while into space, as motionless as a statue. Then she took her violin and bow from the case—she had bought a new bow to take the place of the one that had been broken—and began to play: a cadence, a trill, a waltz.
"Doesn't one proverbially say 'Boo! to a goose?" she remarked demurely. "If one has the courage. Now, I haven't. I'm shy." "Shy! You?" Again the delicious trill of her mirth rang in his ears. "I should imagine that to be the least of your troubles." "No! Truly." There was real and anxious earnestness in his assurance. "It's because I don't see you.
Whereupon this insolent being, who, doubtless, had a right to be insolent, sang an Italian trill, and went towards the window where Eugene was standing, moved thereto quite as much by a desire to see the student's face as by a wish to look out into the courtyard. "But M. le Comte had better wait a moment longer; madame is disengaged," said Maurice, as he returned to the ante-chamber.
To be able to use it anywhere, of course, requires a long time and much practice. If the larynx has acquired the habit properly, the trill can be carried on into a piano and pianissimo and prolonged almost without end with crescendi and decrescendi, as the old Italians used to do, and as all Germans do who have learned anything.
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