"Fiddle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of. digne, worthy. don, do. eek, also. embrowded, embroidered. encres, increase. everychon, every one, all. farsed, stuffed. ferne, distant, foreign. ferre, farther. ferthing, small portion. fetysly, neatly, well. fithel, fiddle. Flaundrische, Flemish. flotynge, fluting, playing. flour-de-lys, fleur-de-lis. for-pyned, much wasted. forster, forester. frere, friar. gawded, having gawds. gepoun, short cassock. goost, ghost. ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... will be woe indeed, lords; the sly whoresons Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies. A French song and a fiddle has ...
— The Life of Henry VIII • William Shakespeare [Dunlap edition]
... reflected upon the profound truth conveyed by this finale, at the instant when the composer delivers his last note and the author his last line, when the orchestra gives the last pull at the fiddle-bow and the last puff at the bassoon, when the principal singers say "Let's go to supper!" and the chorus people exclaim "How lucky, it doesn't rain!" Well, in every condition in life, as in an Italian opera, there comes a time when the joke is over, ...
— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part • Honore de Balzac
... the line of rope, now taut, and resembling a huge "fiddle string," as Bandy-legs remarked, testing it as he passed along. It led them to the brow of an abrupt little descent, a sheer drop of perhaps twenty feet. Down this slope they followed the rope with their eyes and then discovered it was attached to a large and heavy barrel that ...
— At Whispering Pine Lodge • Lawrence J. Leslie
... day or two at Derby, and then went on in Mrs. —— carriage to see the beauties of Matlock. Here I stayed from Tuesday to Saturday, which time was completely filled up with seeing the country, eating, concerts, &c. I was the first fiddle, not in the concerts, but everywhere else, and the company would not spare me twenty minutes together. Sunday I dedicated to the drawing up my sketch of education, which I meant to publish, to try to get ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
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