Above all his gifts, he was an artist in words, his ear being most sensitively attuned and his taste pure and refined for the delicate artistry of the poet's work.

To effect these purposes we require a rich verbal memory from which to select the symbols best fitted to call up images in the reader's mind, and we also require the delicate selective instinct to guide us in the choice and arrangement of those symbols, so that the rhythm and cadence may agreeably attune the mind, rendering it receptive to the impressions meant to be communicated.

" "I think that would prove too much for your finely attuned musical nerves," rejoined her husband.

His keenly attuned ears caught her faint breathing, then the rustle of her skirts as she turned back.

I sometimes saw her after she had become famous when she was attuning sweetly the hearts of multitudes of children with her fine humanity.