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Updated: May 23, 2025
They dropped swiftly down, and in the outskirts overtook a belated bullock-cart, whose ungreased axle was arousing the hillside echoes with its plangent wail. Of the vigorous young woman who marched barefoot beside it, shouldering her goad as if it were a pikestaff, Mr.
The gentle, sonorous tones troubled her heart. Ah! that full, deep voice, charged with plangent vibration, was the voice of one who had suffered indeed. "And if I do not die, monsieur, what will become of me?" The Marquise spoke almost reverently. "Have you not a child, madame?" "Yes," she said stiffly. The cure gave her such a glance as a doctor gives a patient whose life is in danger.
Those who were privileged to share his ordinary life never ceased to wonder how in the pulpit or in the confessional or at prayer this unction was replaced by a remote beauty of tone, a plangent and thrilling compassion that played upon the hearts of all who heard him. "Now really, Father Rowley," Mark protested. "Do I preach a great deal?
I confess I did not understand at one hearing the curious dislocated harmonies and splintered themes melodies they are not in the Pierrot Lunaire. I have been informed that the ear should play a secondary rôle in this "new" music; no longer through the porches of the ear must filter plangent tones, wooing the tympanum with ravishing accords.
There was even a glimpse of the moon riding behind the clouds. And now, a solemn and plangent token of Oxford's perpetuity, the first stroke of Great Tom sounded. Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.
Ominous drum beats under a dissonant tremolo of the strings and deep tones of the clarinets, a plangent declamatory phrase of the violoncellos: proclaims his terror at the thought that he has fallen into the power of the Evil One, while the jubilant second theme: gives voice to the happiness of the heroine and the triumph of love and virtue which is the outcome of the drama.
You've left your dinner so long, you might as well do it now before you have it," came a woman's plangent voice, out of the brilliant light of the middle room. Aaron Sisson had taken off his coat and waistcoat and his cap. He stood bare-headed in his shirt and braces, contemplating the tree. "What am I to put it in?" he queried. He picked up the tree, and held it erect by the topmost twig.
Groups of the Elaeis Guineansis palm embowering some dun-brown village; an array of majestic, superb growth of mvule trees; a broad extent covered with vivid green sorghum stalks; parachute-like tops of mimosa; a line of white sand, on which native canoes are drawn far above the reach of the plangent, uneasy surf; fishermen idly reclining in the shade of a tree; these are the scenes which reveal themselves to us as we voyage in our canoe on the Tanganika.
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