'No, you gave it me for playing a
tune to you.' said the countryman; but the judge told him that was not likely, and cut the matter short by ordering him off to the gallows.
"Uncle" sang as peasants sing, with full and naive conviction that the whole meaning of a song lies in the words and that the
tune comes of itself, and that apart from the words there is no
tune, which exists only to give measure to the words.
By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of
tunes Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons, And it's sweeter than "Stables" or "Water" to me-- The Cavalry Canter of "Bonnie Dundee"!
With a full orchestra you're making motions like the
tune.--Faster, you, Simmons.
"'Papa would have gone; but I begged him so earnestly to take me to the Theatre Francais that he could not refuse; and it is yourself will go this evening to
tune the clavecin of your beloved.'
There was war between the man and the boy ever since Dan had discovered that the mere whistling of that
tune would make him angry as he heaved the lead.
Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of
tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now - now to sit, or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Bob obeyed, and Solomon walked in, fiddling as he walked, for he would on no account break off in the middle of a
tune.
It may not be a good one, for poetry is out of my line, but it will serve my purpose--which is, to give the unGerman young girl a jingle of words to hang the
tune on until she can get hold of a good version, made by some one who is a poet and knows how to convey a poetical thought from one language to another.
But the phonograph continued playing the dreary
tune, so Ojo seized the crank, jerked it free and threw it into the road.
It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet
tune.
Now the Princess came walking past with all her ladies-in- waiting, and when she heard the
tune she stood still and her face beamed with joy, for she also could play 'Where is Augustus dear?'