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It is scarcely necessary to point out that in what has been said no encouragement is intended to be given to the nasal twang, or any thing resembling it and it is easy to so use the nasal resonance that it becomes a defect; but the value of a judicious use of the nose in singing and speaking is, we are convinced, not as well known in vocal teaching as it deserves to be.
In some subtle way it humiliated her; for she looked back into the past, and saw herself therein a dupe to this man. "No!" she cried, and her raised voice had a sudden twang in it suggestive of the streets; of the People. "No you needn't trouble to make soft eyes at me. I know you now I know that what that man said was true. He called you a coward and a cad. You are worse!
An ancient church with bleached stone saints under flowery canopies, a guttering candle before a tinsel shrine, and the hoarse babel of the streets whips that cracked and spluttered like squibs, a swarming coloured stream of men and maids, once the twang of a chance mandoline.
Both Collier and I had promised to go to Lambert's rooms after dinner on that evening; he had asked us because he said we ought to have a talk about the freshers' wine, but we knew well enough that he intended to twang his wretched banjo and sing little love songs which made the night hideous.
Hot, bilious, with a confounded twang in his mouth, and a cracking pain in his head, he stood one moment and sniffed in the salt sea breeze. The moon was unfortunately on the waters, and her cool, beneficent light reminded him, with disgust, of the hot, burning glare of the Baron's saloon. He thought of May Dacre, but clenched his fist, and drove her image from his mind. Dangerous Friends
And the sound of cymbals and drums and kettle-drums, and the rattle of car-wheels and the noise of smaller drums, mingling with those leonine shouts, set forth from all the ranks of the Kurus, became a fierce uproar. And the twang of Partha's Gandiva, resembling the roll of the thunder, filled the welkin and all the quarters.
Besides, to tell you a secret, his voice had a twang in it in the dialect I mean reminded me of a little tongue, which I think sweeter sweeter than the last toll of St. Dunstan's will sound, on the day that I am shot of my indentures Ha! you guess who I mean, Frank?" "Not I, indeed," answered Tunstall. "Scotch Janet, I suppose, the laundress." "Off with Janet in her own bucking-basket! No, no, no!
Her thoughts were out there on the water where she loved to be. The twang of the wind as it swept through the trees along the shore, and the beat of the surf upon the gravelly beach were music sweet to her ears. At length, with one more lingering glance out upon the river, she turned and walked along a path leading from the shore.
Lying thus, he was aware of the slow, plodding hoof-strokes of a horse drawing near, of the twang of a lute, with a voice sweet and melodious intoning a chant; and the tune was plaintive and the words likewise, being these: "Alack and woe That love is so Akin to pain! That to my heart The bitter smart Returns again, Alack and woe!"
Nearer, nearer they came, then almost opposite, and now, as I listened to hear the traitorous signal of murder "Pax vobiscum" and the twang of bow-strings, on the night there rang a voice, a woman's voice, soft but wondrous clear, such as never I knew from any lips but hers who then spoke; that voice I heard in its last word, "Jesus!" and still it is sounding in my ears. That voice said
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