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...reen as emeralds and skin like magnolia petals?’ ‘My fiancée owes her beautiful colouring to her Scottish descent, a country which has many redhead... ...ps as children in your beautiful country, because am I not correct in thinking that Forsythe is a Scottish name?’ ‘Yes,’ said Helen, ‘I have my Scot... ...nterest, smiled at her in his impudent, mischievous manner and said, ‘For that I am doubly in my Scottish friend’s debt. Do you not agree, Comtesse?... ...at on low, cushioned divans placed around the room to be entertained by dancing girls and Indian musicians. Then it was all over and time for the g... ...s palace, that he should be their guest and she could still hear her words spoken in that rolling Scottish accent, ‘Now Gavin, laddie, you must be o... ...nding the walled garden, which at night, Helen guessed, would create a magical ambience. The soft music of a sitar emanated from the marble pavilion... ...ion. The colour of agates, they gazed out on the world with the unseeing stare of the blind. The musician of the sitar was an elfin-faced, raven-hai... ...t who loved the opportunity to dress up - the difference, I suppose, between the Anglo Saxon and Scottish temperaments.’ ‘Your husband is the hands... ... they had never seen except in the history books loaned to them by their European customers. The music of a waltz was playing and Gavin whisked Hele...

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...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The patient also had to se... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ... ...ed by Hans Leip, a 19-year old German soldier in the first world war. It was put to music by Norbert Schultze (1911-2002), a collaborator with the ... ...ing Hebrew, the language of most holocaust survivors. It made it into the Japanese music charts in 1986. http://ingeb.org/garb/lmarleen.html ... ... minutes. Walt Disney - with 26 statues - won the most awards. Alan Menken for music and Denis Muren for visual effects each garnered 8 Oscars.... ...ages in 1907. The idea to incorporated cathode -ray tubes was proposed in 1911 by a Scottish engineer, Campbell Swinton. Another Scot, John Log...

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... He lacks real talents - he know how to play only six jazz tunes, can't make up his musical mind between his faithful sax and a newly alluring drum ... ...es (face recognition, behaviour) and synergetic or correlated activity ("seeing", "music", etc.). Design principles would yield the application of ... ...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount... ...e century moustaches. In the background there is the crying game that is Balkanian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. The smells are heavy ...

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...hold me here a messenger, Your tender greetings prompt to bear; For to the Scottish court addressed, I journey at our King’s behest, And pray you, of ... ... Norham can find you guides enow; For here be some have pricked as far, On Scottish ground, as to Dunbar; Have drunk the monks of St. Bothan’s ale, An... ...ut ill may pursuivant, The only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side: And though a bishop built this fort, Few holy brethren here ... ... thick at Christmas-tide, And we can neither hunt, nor ride A foray on the Scottish side. The vowed revenge of Bughtrig rude, May end in worse than lo... ...; The Palmer took on him the task, So he would march with morning tide, To Scottish court to be his guide. “But I have solemn vows to pay, And may not... ...ar-pipe with discordant cry, And cymbal clattering to the sky, Making wild music bold and high, Did up the mountain come; The whilst the bells, wit... ...the fair dame that rules the land. Little we heed the tempest drear, While music, mirth, and social cheer, Speed on their wings the passing year. And ...

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...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ... thrice, that lady bold; He rose beneath her hand The fairest knight on Scottish mould, Her brother, Ethert Brand! 69 Sir Walter Scott Merry it... ...d step I knew; Like form in Scotland is not seen, T reads not such step on Scottish green. ’Tis James of Douglas, by Saint Serle! The uncle of the ban... ...ee, she lifts her head; The window seeks with cautious tread. What distant music has the power T o win her in this woful hour? ‘T was from a turret th... ...at is, each pause in the singing. In Marmion, ii. 11, according is used of music that fills the intervals of other music: “Soon as they neared his tur... ...w (cf. vi. 488), and sometimes = precipice. 73. On the lone wood. Note the musical variation in the measure here; the 1st, 3d, and 4th syllables being...

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...uch man- sions. The hospitality stopped within the limits of good or- der. Music, in which the young lord was a proficient, suc- ceeded to the circula... ... and in tradition. Some of his feats are recorded in the minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, and others are mentioned in contempo- rary chronicles. At ... ... combatants met in the lists. It is needless to describe the struggle: the Scottish champion fell. Foster, placing his foot on his antagonist, seized ...

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...shaw, the senile twaddlers! And the impudence of the young men, with their music and their danc- ers of to-day! I tell you the women are dreary old cr... ... were novels — ah! I trouble you to find such novels in the present day! O Scottish Chiefs, didn’t we weep over you! O Mysteries of Udolpho, didn’t I ... ...! “After,” the text says, “the Oxonian had played several pieces of lively music, he requested as a favour that Kate and his friend Tom would perform ... ...and pours! The darkness becomes awful, always deepened by the power of the music — and see — in the midst of a rush, and whirl, and scream of spirits ...

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...nto their chests, as appears to be the case now. The tinkling works of the music-cart, I DID find out, to be made of quill tooth-picks and wire; and I... ...ngs—a magic bell, which still sounds in my ears unlike all other bells—and music plays, amidst a buzz of voices, and a fragrant smell of orange-peel a... ...fragrant smell of orange-peel and oil. Anon, the magic bell com- mands the music to cease, and the great green cur- tain rolls itself up majestically,... ...hey break my childish sleep! What images do I associate with the Christmas music as I see them set forth on the Christmas Tree? Known before all the o... ...ame to pass how Lady Mary went to pay a visit at a large wild house in the Scottish Highlands, and, being fatigued with her long journey, retired to b... ...ure—be the images once as- sociated with the sweet old Waits, the softened music in the night, ever unalterable! Encircled by the social thoughts of C...

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...poison-brewing, and choking by sul- phur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to t... ... Gay mansions, with supper- rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of l... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with continual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glockenspiel) fastened there; wh... ...u flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire from the highway; wild music hummed in thy ears, thou too wert as a “sailor of the air;” the wreck... ...ese so-called Biographical Documents are in his hand. By the kindness of a Scottish Hamburg Merchant, whose name, known to the whole mercantile world,... ...ried children sported, and the young men and maidens often danced to flute-music. “Glorious summer twilights,” cries Teufelsdrockh, “when the Sun, lik... ...ne! “Still more touching was it when, turning the corner of a lane, in the Scottish Town of Edinburgh, I came upon a Signpost, whereon stood written t... ...have we endeavored, from the enormous, amorphous Plum-pudding, more like a Scottish Haggis, which Herr Teufelsdrockh had kneaded for his fellow-mortal...

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... into my brain at the sight of the red coats and the hearing of that merry music. A little farther on, and I was told I was in Cramond par- ish, and b... ...I had told him yes, “Ye’ll be no friend of his?” he asked, meaning, in the Scottish way, that I would be no relative. I told him no, none. “I thought ... ...ng eagles, Here is your meat.” Now this song which he made (both words and music) in the hour of our victory, is something less than just to me, who s... ...of what I have to say about my friend, that he was skilled in all kinds of music, but principally pipe- music; was a well-considered poet in his own t... ...n the boat, even as they bent at the oars; and the circum- stances and the music of the song (which is one called “Lochaber no more”) were highly affe... ...it’s a great privation; but when I think upon the martyrs, not only to the Scottish Covenant but to other points of Christianity, I think shame to min... ... of our host) had a pair of pipes in his house, and was much of a lover of music, this time of my 158 Kidnapped recovery was quite a festival, and we...

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... How white they look in the moonshine! Piers—deaf as he is—waking at their music. Ba, they call the lambs! Nay, that’s no call of sheep or goat! ’Tis ... ...e had been dis- covered, and how it was feared that she had been seized by Scottish reivers, or lost in the snow on the hills, or captured by the Lanc... ...s pilgrim’s hat for one in his pouch—a blue bonnet, more like the national Scottish head-gear, hiding the hat in the gorse. Then he lay down and waite... ...ed into. They had sometimes at- tacked Yorkist parties, sometimes resisted Scottish raids, or even made a foray in return, and they were well used to ... ...r’s trade—had three sturdy attendants, having lost one in an attack by the Scottish Borderers, and he had four huge Flemish horses, who sped along the... ... hermit had told him. He was too illiterate to follow the service, but the music and the majestic flow of the chants overwhelmed him, and he listened ...

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...upon him; he moved among great lords and ladies, in a blaze of light, breathing perfumes, drinking in deli- cious music, and answering the reverent ob... ...h silken flags that had numberless little silver bells fastened to them, which shook out tiny showers of joy- ous music whenever the breezes fluttered... ...e rowers, these tenders carried each a number of men-at-arms in glossy helmet and breast- plate, and a company of musicians. The advance-guard of the ... ...iv- eries of the prince. This done, a flourish of trumpets resounded from within. A lively prelude arose from the musicians on the water; and two ushe... ...s fleet, took its stately way down the Thames through the wilderness of illuminated boats. The air was laden with music; the river banks were beruffle... ...r steps. Within the seat of the throne is enclosed a rough flat rock—the stone of Scone—which many generations of Scottish kings sat on to be crowned,...

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...ls, wearing a tie in accordance with ‘the colours,’ and absorbed in church music and decorations, while his recreations were almost all in ac- cordanc... ...uttie’s Father ‘And she has had several prizes at the School of Art.’ ‘And music? That’s the only thing of any value in society,’ he said impatiently,... ... he said impatiently, and Mrs. Egremont said more timidly, ‘She has learnt music regularly.’ ‘But I don’t care about it,’ broke in Nuttie. ‘I haven’t ... ... should have to teach, and they make me practise. I don’t mind clas- sical music, but I can’t stand rubbish, and I think it is waste of time.’ Mr. Egr... ...ued all her real useful acquirements, and cared for noth- ing but trumpery music. The carriage entered the park, and Nuttie saw lake and woods from a ... ...els of Annabella, so chris- tened, but always called Annaple after the old Scottish queens, her ancestors. She had been May Egremont’s chief friend ev... ...en much warp- ing of the imagination to make the young man believe the old Scottish peeress to have consented to her daughter’s mar- rying into an umb... ...undertaken, I suppose.’ ‘Not very likely,’ said Mary quietly. It is a mere Scottish anti-church influence,’ said Gerard, turning round at the swing-do...

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...he strings of sensualism,’ to the delight of a world gaping for marvels of musical execution rather than for music. For our world is all but a sensati... ...as right, wrong alto- gether her deduction of the corresponding sentiment. Music was resumed to confuse the hearing of the eaves- droppers. They behel... ...as in the first conception of the edifice, backs were damp, boots liquidly musical, the pipe of consolation smoked with difficulty, with much pulling ... ...harmony. He sees all difficulties through his own sanguine hues. He is the musical poet of the problem, demanding merely to have it solved that he may... ...ain wonderful old quarto book in her father’s library, by an eccentric old Scottish nobleman, wherein the wearing of garments and sleeping in houses i... ...ced. Seeming unaware of its effect where it kindled, she smote a number of musical female chords, com- passion among them. A general grave affability ... ...nto them. Mr. Dacier was plain, and the state of young Mr. Rhodes; and the Scottish gentleman was at least a vehement admirer. But she pen- etrated th...

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...t these tastes bring him into debt or ex- travagance. His turn for art and music began to show itself, and the anthems at St. George’s Chapel on the S... ...tteson’s chief delight was the Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s music. He had a tuneful baritone voice and a correct ear for music. We hire... ...ng some of Mendelssohn’s Lieder very pleasingly, and knew most of the bass music from the Messiah by heart. He began to play a few scales on the piano... ...just sum up the advantages thereof. Being naturally endowed with a love of music, the probability is, that when you, Clara, and Miss Horsley are toget... ...th of July. This island was occupied by Mr. Inglis and Mr. Greddie, of the Scottish Presbyterian Mission, who had done much towards improving the nati... ... course the coral formation out of the sea.’ Erromango was occupied by the Scottish Mission, and Mr. Gordon was then living there in peace and apparen... ...fore his eyes. The Erromaugo Mission, like that of Anaiteum, came from the Scottish Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, as has been seen, had been visited on e... ... into it. I don’t like to cut out the one I have in the long letter to the Scottish Episcopal Church, which you kindly sent me. ‘I found, too, in one ... ... Yo n g e customed to intercourse with sandal-wood traders, had resi- dent Scottish or London missionaries, and might have a fair understanding of wha...

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.... The sound of the water as it runs through the courses above the dam, the music of the wheels, from which the churned water falls back into the basin... ...in- ference was that he was either a clerk in some office, or that he gave music lessons in private houses. One detail alone in the midst of this vagu... ...me quite intimate with a comrade in the Academy named Desroziers. He was a musician and a man of distinguished and very ob- serving mind, who would pr... ... director of the museum well. Get him to let you make a copy of it. I give music-lessons to the Comte de Lanty’s daughter, Mademoiselle Marianina, and... ...arewell to my excellent father.” “He did not wish it,” replied that damned musician, with an imperturbability and phlegm that deserved a thrashing; “h... ... heard amid the hubbub,— that of a pretty little blonde, saying to a small Scottish youth with whom she had danced the whole evening,— “How odd of Nai... ...is to invite little boys of that age!” “That’s easily explained,” said the Scottish youth; “he’s a boy of the Treasury department. Nais had to ask him... ...d that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it. The Scottish youth, furious, flung himself upon the treacherous French boy; on ...

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...rchestra was playing “Carmen” and “Madame Butterfly.” Carol was dizzy with music and the emotions of parting. She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-... ...residential overshoes in the coat-closet under the stairs, and as the thin music seeped in, Stewart whispered: “I can’t stand it, this breaking up aft... ..., and I’d protect you—” His arm slid behind her shoulders. The insinuating music drained her independence. She said mournfully, “Would you 12 Main St... ...eled in the Art Institute, in sym- phonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing. She almost gave up library 13 S... ...fteen minutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she ho... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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...e les- sons in Homer and Euclid for those which he received in Italian and music. For present amusement there was no rea- son to complain; the neighbo... ... to play so much better than I do, with all my London masters too.” And in music the greater part of the evening was passed away. Beatrice came to her... ...at, but for the laying aside of needle- work, of secular books and secular music, it might as well have been any other day of the week. Her mamma was ... ...th a very low bow, which was gracefully returned by a royal personage in a Scottish bonnet, also bearing the white cockade, a tartan scarf, and the bl... ...go, which to her certain knowledge, ended in a young lady elop- ing with a music master. Beatrice set to work to argue: in the first place it was not ... ...enrietta’s Wish that I did better without all his reading and Italian, and music, and stuff; and I was foolish enough to let them go on, though I knew...

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...uality of intimacy and more. We wanted each other as one wants beau- tiful music again or to breathe again the scent of flowers. And that is all there... ... and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because... ...’s the best time for it. We 111 H G Wells can start about five.” We heard music, and went further along the arcade to dis- cover a place where girls ... ...hy but determined. She had rather open blue eyes, and she spoke in an even musical voice with the gen- tlest of stresses and the ghost of a lisp. And ... ...hou- sand different gods, sought a shape for itself in stone and ivory and music and wonderful words, spoken more and more clearly of a mystery of lov... ... upon Margaret one evening. She was just back from the display of some new musicians at the Hartsteins. I remember she wore a dress of golden satin, v...

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...he even guarded him from the sallies of his young cousins. Once, when much music and talk was going on, he came and sat by her, and made her tell him ... ...BOUND ARD BOUND ARD BOUND ARD BOUND The voice which I did more esteem Than music in her sweetest key— Those eyes which unto me did seem More comfortab... ..., Mary heard again and again, through her unglazed windows, the watchman’s musical cry of ‘Ave Maria purisima, las—es temblado!’ ‘Viva Peru y sereno!’... ...a, but to the uninitiated sounding rather like ‘taste, Shakspeare, and the musical glasses.’ Oliver and his mother, sitting close together, were livin... ...ung hoary on the fir-trees, as she had driven away from the portal, whence music was now pealing forth a greeting, and where Oliver was standing on th... ...mountain-side and the rank unwholesome vegetation of Panama. Shaggy little Scottish oxen were feeding on the dewy grass, their black coats looking sle...