Do we say band or banned

band 5315 occurrences

A loud knocking was heard from the terrified band without, who having vainly endeavoured to prevent the entrance of the knights into the cloister, now rushed before them to take refuge in the church.

For love-lorn swain, in lady's bower, Ne'er panted for the appointed hour, As I, until before me stand This rebel Chieftain and his band.

Short space he stoodthen waved his hand; Down sunk the disappearing band: Each warrior vanished where he stood, In broom or bracken, heath or wood: Sunk brand and spear, and bended bow, In osiers pale and copses low; It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth.

He chose an episode from the war with Pisa, when, on the 28th of July 1364, a band of 400 Florentine soldiers were surprised bathing by Sir John Hawkwood and his English riders.

Michelangelo was unwilling or unable to organise a band of craftsmen fairly interpretative of his manner.

To indulge this craving, he gathered round him a band of demigods and Titans, led by Bramante, Raffaello, Michelangelo, and enjoyed the spectacle of a new world of art arising at his bidding through their industry of brain and hand.

Every street was lined with soldiers, and a band of the bravest and most determined, under the command of Eustace Chandos, (Isabel's father,) manned the city walls.

Beowulf put himself at the head of a mixed band of warriors, went against the monster and slew it.

He was taken captive in Troy, turned Turk, joined a band of pirates, grew rich, and after several years returned to his native land.

Ber'tram (Count), an outlaw, who becomes the leader of a band of robbers.

The Vauxhall d'Hiver was, at that time, the most fashionable place of resort: the pupils of the Royal Academy were engaged to execute new dances; a full and effective band performed the most fashionable airs, and new figures were at length introduced and announced as a source of attraction; but this place was soon pulled down, and re-built on the ground now occupied by the Theatre du Vaudeville.

The band was now composed of a set of miserable scrapers, who played in unison, and continually in the key of G sharp; amid the sounds which emanated from their instruments, the jangling of a tambourin, and the shrill notes of a fife were occasionally heard.

Monsieur Hullin, then of the Opera, was selected to form a band of twenty-four musicians, from among those of the highest talent in the various theatres: he found no difficulty in this, as they were paid in paper-money, then of little or no value; whereas, the administrators of the Richelieu establishment paid in specie.

Birds of the morn, of the morn of the year, Chanting your lays in the bosky dell, Higher and fuller your round notes swell, Till the Fauns and the Dryads peer forth to hear The trilling lays of your feathery band: Ye came not, alas, from my native land.

The arms were divided among Harry's band of forty men, and the twenty strongest of those they had rescued.

Troops came firstcompany after companyeach with a band leading.

Of what might be the fate of that warder were he suddenly transported to the wilds of Kathiawar, to lie at the mercy of his late victim and the famous band of outlaws whom he had once led to famea fame as wide as Ind? There was something fine about the old villain, once a real Robin Hood, something mean about the little tyrant.

The hero, Karl Moor, was conceived as a "sublime criminal." Deceived by the machinations of his villainous brother Franz, he becomes the captain of a band of outlaws and attempts by murder, arson and robbery to right the wrongs of the social order.

And with divinity thou sharest the throne, Let but divinity become thy will! Scorn not the Lawpermit its iron band The sense (it cannot chain the soul) to thrall.

Triangles and cymbals, folk tunes and classic pieces arranged for children's rhythm band with piano accompaniment.

Margaret Clarke Ragsdale & Winifred Clarke Fenton (C); 29Jan57; R185500. CLARKE, HARRY F. Junior band course of the Ditson School and community band series.

Rubank melody band instructor; for school bands, saxophone bands and wind instrument ensemble.

They were a band of desperadoes, many of them outlaws and criminals.

Some of the leading demons of the band determined that they could not have such a fool as this for their leader, and he was killed while asleep.

When he had made his landing from the wreck, Captain Horn never gave a thought to the existence of this band of scoundrels.

banned 40 occurrences

Feed a murderer, a rogue banned by Holy Church, a serf that hath raised hand 'gainst his lord?

CELIN'S FAREWELL He sadly gazes back again upon those bastions high, The towers and fretted battlements that soar into the sky; And Celin, whom the King in wrath has from Granada banned Weeps as he turns to leave for aye his own dear native land; No hope has he his footsteps from exile to retrace; No hope again to look upon his lady's lovely face.

Borrowed rhythms have been banned as well as borrowed words, and there is even an agitation to replace the Arabic script by a new Turkish alphabetan imitation of the Albanian movement which was opposed so fiercely by the Turks themselves before the Balkan War.

Not, even indirectly, the discrowned Turk, for if he were not banned by his crimes he would still be doomed by his incapacity.

Holding the cynic lantern in your hand, Through Europe, Egypt, Asia, you have passed, Till at Ausonia's feet you find at last That Cyclops' cave, where I, to darkness banned, In light eternal forge for you the brand Against Abaddon, who hath overcast The truth and right, Adami, made full fast Unto God's glory by our steadfast band.

"My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine hath been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are banned, and barredforbidden fare.

And so I hope, and so my crescent faith Gains daily power, that all my prayers and tears And toils and blood and anguish borne for him May blot the accusing of my deadly sin From heaven's high compt, and give me rest in death; And lay the pallid ghost of mortal love, That fills with banned and mournful loveliness, Unblest, the haunted chambers of my soul.

There were few of the accompaniments of an ordinary ascent, for all loud cries had been banned.

Beaten and bruised and banned, Flung like a broken sword, Grant me this thing for conquering Let me die fighting, Lord!

Too long, too long have I been banned From giving what he's been denied, The checkings of a chiding hand, Impartially applied,

What from this place itself hath banned?

The rapacity, cruelty, and misgovernment of the various regular authorities of Italy at this time made brigandage a respectable and honored institution in the eyes of the people, though it was ostensibly banned both by Pope and Prince.

It is for themselves to decide what shall be said of them hereafter, and through all future time,whether they shall be blessed or banned, cursed or canonized.

"Then, father, you do admit that one may be banned by the Pope, and may utterly refuse and disown him, and yet be a Christian?" "How can I otherwise?" said the monk.

An over-sanguine mood is wrong And ought to be severely banned; Yet spots, if good, cannot belong To the pernicious leopard brand; But no such reservation spoils The sequel; doubt is overthrown By the explicit statement, "Oils Maintain a healthy undertone.

(10) Bishops, because a cheese should not be made of burnt milk, or milk "banned by a bishop.

The novel, where it was not unconditionally banned altogether as a thing disturbing and unnecessary, was regarded as a thing subordinated to the teaching of the priest or pastor, or whatever director and dogma was followed.

air Thou wilt not spurn the Gipsies' prayer: Though banned and barred by all beside, Be Thou the Outcast's guard and guide.

Absinthe was banned by a thunder-stroke from the Invalides, where the Military Governor had established his headquarters, and Parisians who had acquired the absinthe habit trembled in every limb at this judgment which would reduce them to physical and moral wrecks, as creatures of the drug habit suddenly robbed of their nerve-controlling tabloids.

The old Rabelaisianism was toned down to something like decency and at least the grosser vulgarities of the music-hall stage were banned by common consent.

Sighed for honors; battles planned; Sipped of cups that wisdom banned But would please the weak frail flesh; Suffered, fell, 'rose, struggled fresh?

Directly the officials of the medical society, which had banned her when her own benefit was concerned, heard that she had been approached by the friendly society, they elected her without asking her consent to the very society from which they had previously excluded her, in order that she might be unable to take the post in question, whereby they might have financially suffered.

This procedure was soon banned, as being calculated to bring contempt and ridicule upon the King's uniform, and Petit Jean was assigned a beat of his own.

Sumner in those years was the especial bête noire of the South and the conservative North, and the idol of the radicalsat once the most banned and the most blessed of men.

We might here also dwell upon the idiosyncrasies of genius as applicable to her case, which are generally banned, of whatever character they may be, and evermore shut out all sympathy, till, in despair or despite, folly is made crime.

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