William Tellin a sentence
- Harry wanted to play William Tell and shoot an apple off my head.† (source)
- The record contained the many overtures from Rossini's operas, including the most well-known The William Tell Overture.† (source)
- William Tell was a good shot and put anarrow through an apple on his son's head.† (source)
- A cadet's definition of an intellectual is anyone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.† (source)
- Now and then, in the soft parts of Carmen or before the storm in William Tell-even during dramatic pauses in the speaking-Mrs. Ice Cream Rainey's voice could be heard quickly calling, "Ice cream?† (source)
- The story of William Tell has been told many times -- perhaps most famously by Friedrich Schiller.
- Then, Wilhelm Tell.† (source)
- "What do you mean by the three-fold theme in "William Tell'?" says Kropp reminiscently, and roars with laughter.† (source)
- …he drank in the combined odor of their great bodies together with the rich compost of the refrigeration, and the sharp oiliness of the dining-room linoleum; and in the horsehair walnut parlor at mid-day, good with the mellow piano-smell and the smell of stale varnished wood, she played for him, and made him sing: "William Tell," "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice," "The Song Without Words," "Celeste A'da," "The Lost Chord," her long throat lean and tendoned as her vibrant voice rang out.† (source)
- His thirst was drunken, insatiate: he added to his hoard entire scenes from Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, which he read by himself in German; the lyrics of Heine, and several folk songs.† (source)
- Before the end of the first year I read "Wilhelm Tell" with the greatest delight.† (source)
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- It was very amusing but I did not like it nearly so well as "Wilhelm Tell."† (source)
- I never lose a note of this opera if I can avoid it; the music of William Tell is so sweet.† (source)
- Old William Tell, Old Shaw, the Life Guardsman!† (source)
- Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.† (source)
- …the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince…† (source)
- Though not an implicit believer in the lurid story narrated (or the eggsniping transaction for that matter despite William Tell and the Lazarillo-Don Cesar de Bazan incident depicted in Maritana on which occasion the former's ball passed through the latter's hat) having detected a discrepancy between his name (assuming he was the person he represented himself to be and not sailing under false colours after having boxed the compass on the strict q.t. somewhere) and the fictitious…† (source)
- 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people, I hear Meyerbeer's Huguenots, the Prophet, or Robert, Gounod's Faust, or Mozart's Don Juan.† (source)
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