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Updated: June 23, 2025
The floor, waxed and polished till it was as smooth as a sheet of gleaming ice, caught and held the tremulous reflections of a hundred flickering lights, whilst from above, where the orchestra was snugly tucked away in the gallery behind a bank of flowers, came faint pizzicato sounds of fiddles tuning up, alternating with an occasional little flourish or tentative roulade of notes.
Miss B. could see in the glass every movement that I made; she pretended not to see, however, and finished the song with a regular roulade. "'Gracious Heaven! said I, 'do, madam, pardon me for interrupting that delicious harmony, for coming unaware upon it, for daring uninvited to listen to it.
Only for that cursed shower the other night, that made it incumbent on Cluffe, who had had two or three sharp little visits of his patrimonial gout, and no notion of dying for love, to get to his quarters as quickly as might be he had no doubt that the last stave of their first duet rising from the meadow of Belmont, with that charming roulade devised by Puddock, and the pathetic twang-twang of his romantic instrument, would have been answered by the opening of the drawing-room window, and Aunt Becky's imperious summons to the serenaders to declare themselves, and come in and partake of supper!
All was still, and then suddenly, with a wild roulade that sounded at first like the passage of a musical scale, she burst out into a fit of laughter, crying 'Non mi amava, through the sounds, in a half-frantic mockery. 'No, no, non mi amava, laughed she out, as she walked back into the room. The window was now closed with a heavy bang, and all was silent in the house.
He shall find his match in me," and Sally nodded to a cat-bird that sat perched on a pine-tree, as if she had a secret understanding with him, and the cat-bird went off into a perfect roulade of imitations of all that was going on in the late bird-operas of the season.
'Peace, liar! You promised me your wife for Ophelia! Kloot's frown relaxed into a smile. 'Sure! The first wife I get you shall have. Pinchas gnashed his teeth. Goldwater's voice rose in a joyous roulade. 'I think you owe me a car-fare, said Kloot soothingly. Pinchas waved the rejoinder aside with his cane. 'Why does Hamlet sing? he demanded fiercely. 'Because it's Passover, said Kloot.
My host discourses of the litter of pigs just arrived from the Great Nowhere, and dilates upon the fact that of the 3,423,807 pigs in England no two tails are curled alike. Perhaps even so no two nightingales curl their phrase identically, and one roulade differeth from another in glory. Decidedly the Parisian atmosphere is charged with artistic electricity.
The rumble of worship ceased, the cantor, suddenly isolated, was heard soaring ecstatically; then he, too, turned his head uneasily and his roulade died in his throat. 'Halt! the officer cried. The moving column froze.
"Le douce printemps fait naitre, Autant d'amours que de fleurs; Tremblez, tremblez, jeunes coeurs! Des qu'il commence a paraitre Il faut cesser les froideurs." Here with a sudden brilliant roulade the singer ran up the scale to the C in alt, and there paused with a trill as delicious and full as the warble of a nightingale. "Mais ce qu'il a de douceurs Vous coutera cher peut-etre!
The sopranos, too, have a way, when about to emit a roulade, that is more suggestive of a dentist’s chair, and the attendant gargle, than of a love phrase. When two celebrities combine in a final duo, facing the public and not each other, they give the impression of victims whom an unseen inquisitor is torturing. Each turn of his screw draws out a wilder cry.
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