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An American Papyrus

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...f bar rooms continually Appeared before darkened stages where, in front of guitars, We played. They apppeared at various stages to the weeks of the y...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

... must make it in to a special event. Unless, I tell him otherwise, we’ll have a trio with guitars singing love songs.” “Would that make you uncomfo...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...Ford, '08; Carlisle,Gardiner.Hanson '09; Potter '10; Hardwiok, Kissam 'II. Guitars, S. J. Thompson '08; Detmers, E. T. Johnson, Wood '10. Violins, Lou...

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

...d a dance. Then, for the wine to drink, three men came with mandolines and guitars, and sat in a corner playing their rapid tunes, while all danced on... ...he slow, trailing, lilting polka-waltz round and round the small room, the guitars and mandolines twanging rapidly, the dust rising from the soft bric... ...—yes—you’ve only to let them take you.’ Then the glasses are put down, the guitars give their strange, vibrant, almost painful summons, and the dance ... ...nts may not come in. There is eating and drinking in the little house, the guitars are silent. It is eleven o’clock. Then there is singing, the strang... ...here is singing, the strange bestial singing of these hills. Sometimes the guitars can play an accompaniment, but usually not. Then the men lift up th... ...men get up, straighten their bodies with a curious, offering movement. The guitars and mandolines strike the vibrating strings. But the vague Northern...

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Areopagitica

By: John Milton

... the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, ...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...rary triumph with the assistance of a harp, but the Briggses brought three guitars into the field, and effectually routed the enemy. There was no end ... ... Misses Briggs, made their appearance in a smart private wherry. The three guitars, in their respective dark green cases, were carefully stowed away i... ...nton looked scorn- fully at all of them. The Misses Briggs asked for their guitars, and several gentlemen seriously damaged the cases in their anxiety... ...real earnest. It was a new Spanish composition, for three voices and three guitars. The effect was electrical. All eyes were turned upon the captain, ...

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Gambara

By: Honoré de Balzac

...written precisely because they never happen; to have dreamed of balconies, guitars, stratagems, and bolts, enwrapped in Almaviva’s cloak; and, after i...

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The Tale of Chloe an Episode in the History of Beau Beamish

By: George Meredith

...e I don’t know what you want.’ ‘Yes!’ cried they, striking their bosoms as guitars, and at- tempting the posture of the thrummer on the instrument; ‘s...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...gar—real Spanish barbers lathering out of brass ba- sins—and to have heard guitars under the balconies:there was 19 Thackeray one that an old beggar ... ...sh ventas come the clatter of castanets and the jingle and moan of Spanish guitars and dit- ties. It is a curious sight at evening this thronged stree...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

... grass roof, came the resonant twanging of harp strings, the sharp ping of guitars, with the grave drumming throb of an Indian gombo pulsating steadil... ... and parted lips, against the wall of the struc- ture, where the harps and guitars played on with mad speed in an incessant roll of thunder. Hundreds ... ...perias revealed an enticing gloom resounding with the gentle tin- kling of guitars. The National Guards were thinking of siesta, and the eloquence of ... ...trating into the streets, which resounded with shouts and the strumming of guitars issuing from the open doors of pulperias. The orders were not to in...

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Pictures from Italy

By: Charles Dickens

...lf suffo cated with mud and dust. Exhibitors of Punch, buffo singers with guitars, reciters of poetry, reciters of stories, a row of cheap exhibition...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ous. While some of the party would be away sketching, Mr. Osbourne and I ham- mered away at a novel. We read Gibbon and Carlyle aloud; we blew on flag...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

...moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instru ments of music, unknown to ...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... female want, French stuffs, lace, tweezers, toothpicks, teapot, tray, Guitars and castanets from Alicant, All which selected from the spoil h...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ra-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and guitars disguised as wash-boards. The most applauded pieces were those, suc...

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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

...rs to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the Areopagitica Milton 21 guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, ...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...ned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully el... ...rary triumph with the assistance of a harp, but the Briggses brought three guitars into 389 Charles Dickens the field, and effectually routed the ene... ... Misses Briggs, made their appearance in a smart private wherry. The three guitars, in their respective dark green cases, were carefully stowed away i... ...nton looked scorn- fully at all of them. The Misses Briggs asked for their guitars, and several gentlemen seriously damaged the cases in their anxiety... ...real earnest. It was a new Spanish composition, for three voices and three guitars. The effect was electrical. All eyes were turned upon the captain, ...

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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... rising moon gazed long at troops of musicians traversing the streets with guitars, flutes, tambourines, and the church choir, who were kept in the Se... ...roidered; the young people were seated at table; the wedding-loaf was cut; guitars, cymbals, pipes, viols sounded, and pleasure was rife. A wedding in...

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New Arabian Nights

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...sed even in the dim starshine, “and I rather like the play, and music, and guitars, and things.” Leon had a perception that the understanding was in- ...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...ned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully el...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...inous confusion of sounds that they make, wherein fiddles are drowned, and guitars smothered, and one sort of drum mistaken for another sort; but when...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...hey mustered all the music they could find, there were three violins and two guitars, and no other instrument. As it was now too near the middle of t... ...ndred people. As we drew near, we heard the accustomed sound of violins and guitars, and saw a great motion of the people within. Going in, we found ...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...husband’:—it must have been love. The love that they versify, and strum on guitars, and go crazy over, and end by roaring at as the delusion; this com...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss, The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets. I see religious dances old and new, I h...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...d the chiming of bells, the neighing of mules, together with the murmur of guitars and the noise of fountains, whose rising spray refreshed heaps of f...

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