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Updated: May 5, 2025
The fiddle-bow, however, affords only one example of a rule which is equally well exemplified by many humbler tools. Quarryman's peck, coachman's whip, cricket-bat, fishing-rod, trowel, all have their intimate relation to the skill of those who use them; and like animals and plants, adapting themselves each to its own place in the universal order, they attain to beauty by force of being fit.
As she ended, he snapped his jaws together, and tore away the fettered member, curling it under him with a snarl, when she burst into the gayest reel that ever answered a fiddle-bow.
Delightful illusion of paint and tinsel and silk attire, of cheap sentiment and high and mighty dialogue! Will there not always be rosin enough for the squeaking fiddle-bow?
Quoth Sir Aymeris: If they bring thee back safe, they may chance to sing to the twiggen fiddle-bow, that they may be warned from such folly; but if they come back without thee, by All-hallows the wind of wrath shall sweep their heads off them!
'I should say, when they feel warmly enough to think little of their differences. 'Fire smoothes the creases, yes; and fire is what they're both wanting in. Though Priscy has Concert-pathos in her voice: couldn't act a bit! And Pempton's 'cello tones now and then have gone through me simply from his fiddle-bow, I believe.
"We've made a horse-fiddle before now, haven't we? that rope's got so much resin on it that it squeaks if you just look at it." He passed the free end of the resined rope through a hole in the bottom of the upturned wash-boiler, and knotted it so it would not pull out again. "Now where's the fiddle-bow, John?" he asked.
Delightful illusion of paint and tinsel and silk attire, of cheap sentiment and high and mighty dialogue! Will there not always be rosin enough for the squeaking fiddle-bow?
As usual, he was dressed in his own curious home-made gray coat; but from his little cocked-hat, which he wore perched over one ear in military fashion, a long narrow ribbon of black crape fluttered backwards and forwards in the wind. Around his waist he had buckled a black sword-belt; but instead of a sword he had stuck a long fiddle-bow into it.
I'm not the party generally outside of a fortification; I ain't, I can assure you. I'm a defence party, and a reg'lar lion when I've got the law backing me." He spoke in a queer, wheezy voice, like a cracked flute, combined with the effect of an ill-resined fiddle-bow. "You are in the garden of Queen Anne's Farm," said Rhoda. "And you're my pretty little niece, are you?
The young foreigner flourished his fiddle-bow with a master's hand, and gave an inspiring echo to the showman's melody.
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