tuneful

After that, the little brown hood slipped through the hedge nearly every day, and the great drawing room was haunted by a tuneful spirit that came and went unseen.

Its tuneful, easy blank verse never rises to the grandeur of Milton's, yet there are fine passages in it.

The neighbouring stream sparkled, and rolled onward with a tuneful sound; the dew glistened on the green mounds, like tears shed by Good Spirits over the dead.

And here -- most striking object of all -- on the site where thousands of lights once sparkled; where sweet sounds of music made night tuneful till morning dawned; where the beauty and fashion of London feasted and danced through the summer seasons of a century -- spreads, at this day, an awful wilderness of mud and rubbish; the deserted dead body of Vauxhall Gardens mouldering in the open air.

Very tuneful blue-birds they were, too, for all the lads sang, and the echo of their happy voices reached Mrs.

Up to a hill anon his steps he reared, From whose high top to ken the prospect round, If cottage were in view, sheep-cote, or herd; But cottage, herd, or sheep-cote, none he saw-- Only in a bottom saw a pleasant grove, With chaunt of tuneful birds resounding loud.

In the course of the forenoon, Hepzibah heard a note of music, which (there being no other tuneful contrivance in the House of the Seven Gables) she knew must proceed from Alice Pyncheon's harpsichord.

We headed him with pebbles till he retired through a window to the tuneful reminder that he had left a lot of little things behind him.

His was not a tuneful throat-but harsh melodies burst from it as he locked the barn and sprang up the hill to the house.

For once he fain had quenched the Maenad's fire; And of the tuneful Nine provoked the ire.

Half a dozen voices together, in a most tuneful chorus, as her stern went down with a roll and a bubble into the troughs: "Thay- aah - she -strikes!"

Small, shining, neat, methodical, and buxom was Miss Peecher; cherry-cheeked and tuneful of voice.