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  • As the cooling air settled into the cracks and caverns of the plateau and the warm air rushed skyward, pulling leaves, twigs, and mist upward in a vertical gale, a sound ebbed up out of the Cleft as if the continent itself was calling with the voices of stone giants, gigantic bamboo flutes, church organs the size of palaces, the clear, perfect notes ranging from the shrillest soprano to the deepest bass.†   (source)
  • I fought down laughter at the thought of Wilem as a soprano and shook my head.†   (source)
  • Next to an alto she sang alto, by a soprano, soprano.†   (source)
  • "Edward," she answered, her high soprano voice almost as attractive as his.†   (source)
  • She was in wonderful spirits, Mietje said, singing hymns and songs in her high sweet soprano.†   (source)
  • They did not even have Ruth May yet, but did have a female dog that howled, Our Father still likes to say, Like One Too Many Sopranos in Church.†   (source)
  • A second voice joined the first, and was followed by a third-girl's soprano giggle-a fourth, a fifth, six, a dozen, all of them, all laughing.†   (source)
  • She undressed her, washed her, meticulously soaping her without missing a single crevice, rubbed her with cologne, dusted her with powder, lovingly brushed her four remaining strands of hair, dressed her in the most eccentric and elegant rags that she could find, and put back her soprano's wig, returning to her in death the infinite attentions that Ferula had given her in life.†   (source)
  • The season opened with a French opera company whose novelty was a harp in the orchestra and whose unforgettable glory was the impeccable voice and dramatic talent of a Turkish soprano who sang barefoot and wore rings set with precious stones on her toes.†   (source)
  • The soprano screak of carriage wheels punished my ear.†   (source)
  • Mother's voice, she used her water-bright soprano in the Baptist choir, did not sing, yet sang back replies.†   (source)
  • Two are women: the pianist at the keyboard and the soprano-sax player, who is sitting this one out.†   (source)
  • They sing second soprano in the choir, and although their voices are clear and steady, they are never picked to solo.†   (source)
  • The music was soaring, all soprano and harps and sadness, mourning some lost boy away at war, but still I kept my eyes shut and tried to remember every detail of this dance, because even then I knew that it wouldn't last.†   (source)
  • Emily sang outstanding soprano.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the frequency of the human voice did something to the tiny atomic substances, such as happened when the famous operatic soprano Dame Ariadne Stretch broke a glass by singing at it?†   (source)
  • Was she Carmela Soprano?†   (source)
  • I heard the girls' glee club I used to sing in, way off from the other side of camp, their tiny grade-school sopranos singing, "Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me.†   (source)
  • In front of him are two sopranos, one blonde and one redhead, whose hair hangs, silk-smooth and straight, almost to the middle of her back.†   (source)
  • The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs' relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair.†   (source)
  • Woke up later and came fully awake when I realized was hearing two fem voices, one Wyoh's warm contralto, other a sweet, high soprano with French accent.†   (source)
  • It had the same bright, surprised, near soprano sound as his voice when he greeted a friend and cried out, "Hi!†   (source)
  • Every now and then one of them would be drawn down so tightly that it would begin to shriek like the worst soprano in the hottest town in Italy.†   (source)
  • Christopher said in a soprano squeak.†   (source)
  • On the drive home, Uhmma talks about how Pastor Kim wants her to join the chorus, they need more sopranos.†   (source)
  • His voice cracked and he hit a soprano note.†   (source)
  • A distant radio, a soprano, very faint.†   (source)
  • Erlene Barlowe asked me to come and talk to you:' "I'm Angel: she said, "Angel Christian:' Her voice was a gentle soprano.†   (source)
  • "Greek goddess of wisdom," the Al said, the voice sliding into a mezzo-soprano.†   (source)
  • My voice had risen its usual uncontrolled octaves, becoming an epicene mezzo-soprano.†   (source)
  • On Mondays, the singing teacher blew into the room fresh from the early outdoors, singing in her high soprano "How do you do?" to do-mi-sol-do, and we responded in chorus from our desks, "I'm ve-ry well" to do-sol-mi-do.†   (source)
  • Alice and Jasper laughed in harmony, soprano and bass.†   (source)
  • But her favorite show by far was the HBO mob story The Sopranos.†   (source)
  • Betsie's sweet soprano was picked up by voices all around us.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Renesmee answered in her trilling high soprano.†   (source)
  • Not the same?" she snarled in her little girl's soprano.†   (source)
  • It was soft, it was high — a babyish, soprano tinkling.†   (source)
  • The waist-deep water was so cold I imagined I would be singing soprano for the rest of the week.†   (source)
  • Her voice was sweet, melodious, the speaking voice of a well-trained soprano.†   (source)
  • Blimey if he didn't answer in soprano voice: "Right here, darling—and I am so 'appee!"†   (source)
  • Human voice is buzzes and hisses mixed various ways; true even of a coloratura soprano.†   (source)
  • Tiny falls tinkled in silvery soprano, big falls rumbled in basso profundo.†   (source)
  • He heard a soprano voice complaining, " 'Twenty-four hour notice!†   (source)
  • The assassin's voice warbled, modulating from soprano to baritone as if going through a special effects machine.†   (source)
  • "Momma, where is Grandpa?" she'd asked in a clear, high soprano, only bothering to speak aloud because I was across the room from her.†   (source)
  • She attracted his attention because of her mother-of-pearl whiteness, her happy plump woman's scent, her immense soprano's bosom crowned by an artificial magnolia.†   (source)
  • Best of all, Mami seemed not to mind the singing anymore and once or twice broke out into song herself in a delicate, quavery soprano: A Santa Claus le gusta el vino, A Santa Claus le gusta el ron ...And, of course, at the Christmas Eve pageant, all the children sang: Adestes fideles Laetes triumphantes...I, costumed in a nightgown with a tinsel crown on my head, was to announce to the poor shepherds tending their flocks by night: Do not be afraid For behold I bring you Tidings of great joy: The baby Jesus is born!†   (source)
  • Octavian screamed in a shrill voice—maybe ordering the First Cohort to stand their ground, maybe trying to sing soprano —but Percy put a stop to it.†   (source)
  • Her rapid soprano and Sula's dark sleepy chuckle made a duet that frightened the cat and made the children run in from the back yard, puzzled at first by the wild free sounds, then delighted to see their mother stumbling merrily toward the bathroom, holding on to her stomach, fairly singing through the laughter: "Aw.†   (source)
  • The murmuring babble of bass and soprano voices seemed to issue from every side, echoing off the walls.†   (source)
  • Her powerful contralto, Reba's piercing soprano in counterpoint, and the soft voice of the girl, Hagar, who must be about ten or eleven now, pulled him like a carpet tack under the influence of a magnet.†   (source)
  • We had a senator, the mayor, the great Broadway stage actress Marjorie Savoy, a baseball player whose name I cannot recall but is said to be quite famous, the soprano and stunning beauty Jeanine Sabino (with whom John spent a little too much time for my liking) and two Italians and Chinese, all three of whom are rumored to be gin runners or some other form of lowlife and were invited only because John's importing of oil depends on their cooperation.†   (source)
  • Damn girl soprano.†   (source)
  • He mimics her soft soprano.†   (source)
  • In a clear bluebell voice she sang it out—the one word held so long it became a sentence—and before the last syllable had died in the corners of the room, she was answered in a sweet soprano: "I hear you."†   (source)
  • Bombardment by eggs and vegetables, shouted insults, and the occasional shoe that landed next to a terrified soprano, were, of course, unambiguous.†   (source)
  • The following weekend was unusually warm, beautiful really, and I was enjoying my sabbath ritual, Little Steven's Underground Garage, a two-hour radio program devoted to garage rock and hosted by Steven Van Zandt from the E Street Band and The Sopranos that was broadcast on a local radio station at eight every Sunday morning.†   (source)
  • The singing, even in the halls, of famous sopranos and baritones, the armies of orchestras and chamber ensembles playing music that had been composed when the empire was vital and ascendant, the fires and candle light, the speaking of French and English among people of purple blood, and the strong sense of a ship that was going down, kept Alessandro on edge throughout the nights.†   (source)
  • Sopranos!†   (source)
  • He was baritone, had North American accent with Aussie overtones; as "Michelle" he (she?) had a light soprano with French flavor.†   (source)
  • There rose a soprano clamor from all three boys as they rocked the boat in arching their tender necks to see.†   (source)
  • From the time the Pomona began to throb and move down the river, Gabriella Serto regaled the deck with clear, soprano cries.†   (source)
  • In the pale light he began reading to her from the story of Pezarod, about little boys' pranks in the leafy Elysian small-town marrow of America; he was able to laugh and giggle, and his thin soprano singsong cast a gentle spell, combining with Eva's exhaustion to lull her to sleep.†   (source)
  • A bright, beautiful, silvery soprano scream.†   (source)
  • "Matted and damp are the curls of gold," mourned Scarlett's faulty soprano, and Fanny half rose and said in a faint, strangled voice: "Sing something else!"†   (source)
  • The saws sang soprano and the clerk in the commissary passed out the blackstrap molasses and the sowbelly and wrote in his big book, and the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness collaborated to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife, and all was merry as a marriage bell.†   (source)
  • On small solicitation, she sang for the boarders, thumping the cheap piano with her heavy accurate touch, and singing in her strong, vibrant, somewhat hard soprano a repertory of songs classical, sentimental, and comic.†   (source)
  • From behind a door in the corridor leading to the Beta-Minus geography room, a ringing soprano voice called, "One, two, three, four," and then, with a weary impatience, "As you were."†   (source)
  • Hickey signals to Cora, who starts playing and singing in a whiskey soprano "She's the Sunshine of Paradise Alley.†   (source)
  • She leaned her forehead upon her hand, following the long tender curve that the soprano lifts in the Kyrie.†   (source)
  • They crashed into the second verse and Scarlett, singing with the rest, heard the high sweet soprano of Melanie mounting behind her, clear and true and thrilling as the bugle notes.†   (source)
  • Which was: The band blaring, the roaring like the sea, the screams like agony, the silence, then one woman-scream, silver and soprano, spangling the silence like the cry of a lost soul, and the roar again so that the hot air seemed to heave.†   (source)
  • Nightly the dark tree-lined streets resounded with dancing feet, and from parlors tinkled pianos where soprano voices blended with those of soldier guests in the pleasing melancholy of "The Bugles Sang Truce" and "Your Letter Came, but Came Too Late"—plaintive ballads that brought exciting tears to soft eyes which had never known the tears of real grief.†   (source)
  • Someone said that she was Madam Glynn, the soprano.†   (source)
  • It was an evening of lieder, presented by a local professional soprano who also gave lessons.†   (source)
  • His wife, who had been a soprano, still taught young children to play the piano at low terms.†   (source)
  • During the last number he withdrew and, after hastily changing his clothes in the dressing room, slipped out to the side door where the soprano's carriage stood.†   (source)
  • At this the young girl began to interpret the melody upon the organ, emitting a thin though correct strain, at the same time joining her rather high soprano with that of her mother, together with the rather dubious baritone of the father.†   (source)
  • She smiled upon the throng as if in acknowledgment of a warm welcome, and began to walk to and fro, making profuse gesticulations and singing, in brazen soprano tones, a song, the words of which were inaudible.†   (source)
  • Some of the younger men in the club box exchanged a smile at this announcement, and glanced sideways at Lawrence Lefferts, who sat carelessly in the front of the box, pulling his long fair moustache, and who remarked with authority, as the soprano paused: "No one but Patti ought to attempt the Sonnambula."†   (source)
  • Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping, broken sobs, and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano.†   (source)
  • He had half-expected her to appear again in old Mrs. Mingott's box, but it remained empty; and he sat motionless, his eyes fastened on it, till suddenly Madame Nilsson's pure soprano broke out into "M'ama, non m'ama ..."†   (source)
  • When the soprano soloist came on Paul forgot even the nastiness of his teacher's being there and gave himself up to the peculiar stimulus such personages always had for him.†   (source)
  • With the most charming, cool precision in her staccato, a soprano warbled and trilled an aria from La Traviata.†   (source)
  • Julia, though she was quite grey, was still the leading soprano in Adam and Eve's, and Kate, being too feeble to go about much, gave music lessons to beginners on the old square piano in the back room.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp was more or less familiar with the plot, knew the rough outline of the tragic fate of Radames, Amneris, and Aida, who sang to him from the cabinet—an incomparable tenor, a stately mezzo with that splendid break in the middle of her register, and a silvery soprano.†   (source)
  • He hummed a little song that he had heard sung in a light soprano voice, who knew where or when, at some party or charity concert, and that had turned up now in his memory, a gentle bit of nonsense that began: How oft it thrills me just to hear You say some simple word, and he was about to add: That spoken from your lips, my dear, Does leave my heart so stirred!†   (source)
  • And then Hans Castorp followed this with a duet from a modern Italian opera; and there could be nothing on earth more tender than the demure, intense mingling of emotions between a world-famous tenor, who was well represented in the albums, and a little soprano with a voice sweet and clear as glass—than his "Da' mi il braccio, mia piccina," and her answering melodic phrase, so simple, sweet, and succinct.†   (source)
  • It was nothing but soprano rebecs, counter-tenor rebecs, and tenor rebecs, not to reckon the flutes and brass instruments.†   (source)
  • The contralto will not care to catechise the bass; the tenor will foresee no embarrassing dearth of remark in evenings spent with the lovely soprano.†   (source)
  • "M. Cavalcanti has a fine tenor voice," said he, "and Mademoiselle Eugenie a splendid soprano, and then she plays the piano like Thalberg.†   (source)
  • In that case, the linnet-throated soprano and the full-toned bass singing,— "With thee delight is ever new, With thee is life incessant bliss," believed what they sang all the more because they sang it.†   (source)
  • "I, too," said the young man, "am a musician—at least, my masters used to tell me so; but it is strange that my voice never would suit any other, and a soprano less than any."†   (source)
  • The sense of mutual fitness that springs from the two deep notes fulfilling expectation just at the right moment between the notes of the silvery soprano, from the perfect accord of descending thirds and fifths, from the preconcerted loving chase of a fugue, is likely enough to supersede any immediate demand for less impassioned forms of agreement.†   (source)
  • He assured me that musical people, though singularly dumb, were so sexually depraved that we could acquire platoons of budding sopranos for the price of a Coke and a hamburger.†   (source)
  • —Bloom, he said, Madame Marion Tweedy that was, is, I mean, the soprano.†   (source)
  • I hear the train'd soprano (what work with hers is this?)†   (source)
  • Reedy freckled soprano.†   (source)
  • /Banditti/, in place of /bandits/, would seem an affectation in America, and so would /soprani/ for /sopranos/ [Pg266] and /soli/ for /solos/.†   (source)
  • I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
    I heard you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I
    pass'd the church,
    Winds of autumn, as I walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your long-
    stretch'd sighs up above so mournful,
    I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the
    soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
    Heart of my love!†   (source)
  • That Music Always Round Me
    That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long
    untaught I did not hear,
    But now the chorus I hear and am elated,
    A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of
    daybreak I hear,
    A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,
    A transparent base shuddering lusciously under and through the universe,
    The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and
    violins, all these I fill myself with,
    I hear not the volumes of sound merely, I am moved by the exquisite
    meanings,
    I listen to th†   (source)
  • Coptic refrain toward sundown, pensively falling on the
    breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile,
    I hear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer, and the bells of the mule,
    I hear the Arab muezzin calling from the top of the mosque,
    I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches, I hear
    the responsive base and soprano,
    I hear the cry of the Cossack, and the sailor's voice putting to sea
    at Okotsk,
    I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the
    husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together
    with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
    I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms,
    I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks†   (source)
  • 6
    Then I woke softly,
    And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,
    And questioning all those reminiscences, the tempest in its fury,
    And all the songs of sopranos and tenors,
    And those rapt oriental dances of religious fervor,
    And the sweet varied instruments, and the diapason of organs,
    And all the artless plaints of love and grief and death,
    I said to my silent curious soul out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,
    Come, for I have found the clew I sought so long,
    Let us go forth refresh'd amid the day,
    Cheerfully tallying life, walking the world, the real,
    Nourish'd henceforth by our celestial dream.†   (source)
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