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Ordinarily speaking, the men would have taken no notice; but their nerves were fretted to fiddle-strings. They jumped up, and three or four clattered into the barrack-room only to find Simmons kneeling by his box. "Ow! It's you, is it?" they said, and laughed foolishly. "We thought 'twas " Simmons rose slowly. If the accident had so shaken his fellows, what would not the reality do?
There is a particular tune they play, called the Elf-King's tune, which, the story-tellers say, some good fiddlers know very well, but never venture to play, because everybody who hears it is obliged to dance, and to go on dancing till somebody comes behind the musician and cuts the fiddle-strings; and out of this tradition we have the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
"Know him?" answered the other "Know Ned of the Island? To be sure I do." "He is the man that shall knot the great fiddle-strings that have snapped. Say I told you so; and thereupon I give thee his health." "And thereupon I pledge thee," said the young nobleman, "which on any other argument I were loath to do thinking of Ned as somewhat the cut of a villain."
What might have happened I don't know, but just as the girls were in the middle of a dance one of my fiddle-strings broke, and it was the treble, too. I wouldn't have minded it if it had been any of the other strings, but when the treble broke I had to stop playing. "Well, the girls were very much disappointed and so was I, for I had come for a frolic.
When Beaudry climbed the cañon wall to the Rothgerber pasture he breathed a deep sigh of relief. For many hours he had been under a heavy strain, nerves taut as fiddle-strings. Fifty times his heart had jumped with terror. But he had done the thing he had set out to do. He had stiffened his flaccid will and spurred his trembling body forward.
All his best qualities show in this time of trial. He is only too faithful and wears himself to positive fiddle-strings in my service and that of the General. I send him to you, darling child, for a little change and recreation relaxation from the strain of my husband's illness. Marshall is so sympathetic and feels for others so deeply.
It's not possible that Lady Walderhurst is fretting herself into fiddle-strings because her husband chooses to have a fever in India." "No, she is behaving beautifully in all respects. May I have a few minutes' talk with you, Lady Maria, before you see her?" "A few minutes' talk with me means something either amusing or portentous. Let us walk into the morning-room."
by nature merry, Somewhat Tom-foolish, and comical, very; Who has gone through the world, not unmindful of pelf, Upon easy terms, thank Heaven, with himself, Along bypaths, and in pleasant ways, Caring as little for censure as praise; Having some friends, whom he loves dearly, And no lack of foes, whom he laughs at sincerely; And never for great, nor for little things, Has he fretted his guts to fiddle-strings.
"Oh, it's him you've come for, is it?" he said. "Well, let me tell you this for your information! He's had enough of Blue Hill Farm for the present." Burke said nothing, but his grey eyes had a more steely look than usual as he digested the news. Kelly looked at him curiously. "The boy's a wreck," he said. "Simply gone to pieces; nerves like fiddle-strings.
If we leave it here it will trip any one who stumbles against it." "I shall use it for fiddle-strings," said Prince Fiddlecumdoo, "for the crop failed this year, and I have none for my violin. Let us cut the Dragon up into the proper sizes, and store the strings in the royal warehouse for general use." The King and the people heartily approved this plan.
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