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Updated: June 24, 2025
The plight of the player who has discovered at the beginning of a medal round that he is off his drive and brassy, and that six or seven holes have to be played before a little one is reached, is certainly not pleasant.
Speaking generally, liberty in the abstract, apart from particular and known conditions, was only a phrase, a brassy tinkle in Mr. Hutchinson's ear, meaning nothing unless it meant mere absence of all constraint. The liberty which Mr. Hutchinson prized was not the same as freedom from constraint.
Knowing the general musical character of the tones of all instruments, the cultured hearer can at once detect any variation from this character. Further, he knows how the tones of a badly-played instrument would sound if the instrument were correctly handled. An unskilled trumpeter in an orchestra, for example, may draw from his instrument tones that are too brassy, blatant, or harsh.
Whether it was that Archibald pressed too much or pressed too little, whether it was that his club deviated from the dotted line which joined the two points A and B in the illustrated plate of the man making the brassy shot in the Hints on Golf book, or whether it was that he was pursued by some malignant fate, I do not know. Archibald rather favoured the last theory.
"You are leader of this band?" "Yes, sir, I ham." "Have you any objection to earn a sovereign or two?" "No, sir, I han't." "It's a goodish band," observed Gildart. "A fus'-rater," replied the clarionet. "No doubt the trombone is a little cracked and brassy, so to speak, because of a hinfluenza as has wonted him for some weeks; but there's good stuff in 'im, sir, and plenty o' lungs.
She complained, also, of the absence of bird voices, so silent the fields and groves and orchards were, compared with what she had been used to at home. The most noticeable midsummer sound everywhere was the shrill, brassy crescendo of the locust. All this is unquestionably true.
The impression I did receive of her appearance I communicated to my mother in far from respectful pantomime. "Well, love, and what do you think of Mrs. Wood?" said she. "I think," chanted I, in that high brassy pitch of voice which Jem and I had adopted for this bravado period of our existence "I think she's like our old white hen that turned up its eyes and died of the pip. Lack-a-daisy-dee!
"You'll break it, I know you will. You'll break it. Give it ME " cried Millicent, and she began to take away the bell. Marjory set up an expostulation. "LET HER ALONE," said the father. Millicent let go as if she had been stung, but still her brassy, impudent voice persisted: "She'll break it. She'll break it. It's mine " "You undo another," said the mother, politic.
Up and down the street the endless patter of the feet of men and women, the wheeze of the little electrics and the blare of brassy music ebb and flow. Here and there is the dominant note of the Exposition, its pastel shades of burnt orange and red, and its indefinable blue. They flutter forth, hooped about the flagpoles with Oriental effect.
I can't imagine even a fiend being ill-tempered in it for long; and it was deliciously cool, as if we had come into a shadowy green wood after the blazing, brassy glare of the streets. The big room really was rather like a wood, so the simile isn't far-fetched; an open space in a wood, ringed round with tall trees bending their branches low over a still pool.
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