10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTUNEFULLY»
Discover the use of
untunefully in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
untunefully and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
I must not let stray sorrows out ; They are ill to fledge, and if they feel blithe air
They wail and chirp untunefully. Would God 1 had been a man ! when I was born,
men say, My father turned his face and wept to think I was no man.
CHASTELARD.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1878
To all of which he replied 'by bursting untunefully into: Any old thing will do, do,
do! Oh, any old thing will do! So on this assurance I went and ordered the horses
and coolies. We started away at 9.30, our horses being led at a foot's pace, and ...
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Our Lady of Deliverance
and most of them bolted their bits of cake as if they were pills, and then replaced
their quids, but some of the younger men carried them away carefully in their
hands. Then the ship's band played under the awning not altogether untunefully,
...
At one moment she would laugh over some slender jest with a vehemence that
made the gardens ring — untunefully; a false note jarred through all Anne said or
did to-night. At the next her abstraction was so profound the mention even of her
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George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, 1890
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Essays of travel and in the art of writing
revolve untunefully enough through the figures of a singing quadrille. A
magazine club supplies you with everything, from the Quarterly to the Sunday at
Home. Grand tournaments are organised at chess, draughts, billiards, and whist.
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1921
And later parishioners stared as their venerable deacon assisted the helpless,
aged stranger up the aisle to the Straint front pine pew. , 4,^| There was no
opening anthem, only an old familiar hymn, sung for the most part untunefully.
And all ...
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Lyra Mystica: Hymns and Verses on Sacred Subjects, Ancient ...
Some wearinejs, pain, or jbme paffing vexations The half-entranced jbul from its
blijs will recall ; Or the heart is unjlrung, and the fweet modulations On earth-
enchained jenjes untunefully fall. When rejbundeth God's Praije in the courts of
His ...
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Friends' Intelligencer and Journal
Such ballads ring most untunefully in the lofty music of English literature, and
they enter into unworthy competition with the sensations provided for us by the
daily press." Our closing extract is the testimony of this profound critical writer to
the ...
9
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
... and even balls enliven the evenings; a charity bazaar sheds genial
consternation; Christmas and New Year are solemnized with Pantagruelian
dinners, and from time to time the young folks carol and revolve untunefully
enough through the ...
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The century illustrated monthly magazine
The people at the big table talked fast in low tones, and the clattering of dishes
and plates and knives and forks went on steadily and untunefully all around.
Sylvia felt lonely in the unindividual atmosphere of the Swiss hotel. She hated the
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