The master had told one or two tall reminiscences, and when he cleared his throat for another we were all curious, for he was a bit of an artist in his way, and produced his effects in a crescendo fashion.

silence!" cried Galen Albret, in a crescendo outburst.

And then in a crescendo shriek, "Gentlemen!" "And ladies!" cried somebody, for, indeed, there was a fair sprinkling of women among the crowd.

For this passage, written in a crescendo style, culminates, as might have been expected, in the sublime spectacle of Claudius Caesar.

Cordova could not deny this, and fell back upon the idea of having an opera written for her, expressly to show off her voice, with a crescendo trill in every scene and a high D at the end; and Margaret Donne, who loved music for its own sake, was more disgusted than ever, and took up a book in order to get rid of her professional self, and tried so hard to read that she almost gave herself a headache.

Then in a few years more the crescendo wave of trouble took my mother from me at the age of eighty-three.

The tail proving ineffectual in argument, Pizarro supplemented its eloquence by sharp admonitory yelps, tempered by a sharp crescendo whining, of which he seemed rather proud as an accomplishment.