27 Metaphors for singers

He was told the singers were a flat kind of fish; he, however, did not see them.' 'Might not this fish,' he asks, 'or one resembling it in vocal qualities, have given rise to the fable of the Sirens?' It might, certainly, if the fact be true.

And besides, you will laugh at my ravings, and say that a singer is a singer, and nothing more, for all his life.

The singers are two slave-shepherds departing from the lands of a master who has been dispossessed.

The singer is yet another dramatist: I presume him to be Thomas Dekker.

The greatest singers are almost invariably the offspring of mothers or fathers who were music hungry, and who were given no complete gratification of this craving.

The profession of singing in public, then, presupposed that the singer was no longer the more or less imaginary young girl, the hothouse flower of the social garden, whose perfect bloom the merest breath of worldly knowledge must blight for ever.

Not so thy singer, who believes in thee Because he has a young and foolish spirit; Because the simple faith that bards inherit Of happiness is still the master key, Opening life's treasure-house to whoso clings To the dim beauty of imagined things.

The personal element in the fight, the deeds of gallantry recorded, the sounding roll of the chief knights' names, and the high renown of the two leaders, throw a glamour around this particular contest which is kept alive by the ballads that chant the praises of Percy or Douglas according as the singer was Scot or Saxon.

Most great singers are portentous sleepers.

Having said this, the good lady laid her own hand, which was really a fine one, on the shelf before her, and with a polite nod which intimated that she did not like to be interrupted while speaking, she added, "The little singer is a mere child, and looks very much worn out.

"The singers in this opera are pupils of the Conservatoire, and the corps de ballet consists of the most distinguished dancers of the day.

My listless singer was not the nonpareil, nor even a finch of any kind, but a yellow-throated warbler.

Not so thy singer, who believes in thee Because he has a young and foolish spirit; Because the simple faith that bards inherit Of happiness is still the master key, Opening life's treasure-house to whoso clings To the dim beauty of imagined things.

Frank knew the merry singers were sophomores, the malicious and unrelenting foes of all freshmen.

You could not, at least, do anything but smile over a man who sat on the floor under Paula's piano while she played and came crawling out to express surprise that a singer should be a musician as well.

The basso is too ugly for anything; our Star once made the witty remark: 'The bass singer is a bigger fool than even a basso is expected to be!'

In public, she is a very Zenobia, who keeps all animals of the other sex at an awful distance; and of the fifty young puppies who are raving about her beauty, her air, and her voice, not one has obtained an introduction; while Claude, whose studio used to be a favourite lounge of young Guardsmen, has, as civilly as he can, closed his doors to those magnificent personages ever since the new singer became his guest.

The solo singer, however, was a Scientist, Miss Elsie Lincoln; and on the platform sat Joseph Armstrong, formerly of Kansas, and now the business manager of the publication society, with the other members of the Christian Science Board of DirectorsIra C. Knapp, Edward P. Bates, Stephen A. Chase,gentlemen officially connected with the movement.

The most universally esteemed singer of his age was Mat.

The result of all this is that singers, as a rule, are much more normal, healthy, and well-balanced people than other musicians, or than actors.

The gay Provencal singers were harbingers of Dante, even as unknown poets prepared the way for Homer.

" These husky singers were the last Germans we were to see for many hours; for between the garrison force left behind in Brussels and the fast- moving columns hurrying to meet the English and the French and a few Belgianson the morrowa matter of many leagues now intervened.

Nay, sir, a ballad-singer is a higher man, for he does two things: he repeats and he sings; there is both recitation and music in his performancethe player only recites.

The singer was the peculiar organ of the composerhis "Thorn," his "Mouth which a Smile," "Tom Moody," "Heaving the Lead," and many, many others, seem to have faded away with the voice of the melodist.

But the French opera-singers were a courtly race.

27 Metaphors for  singers