If I was your husband, I'd spend my last cent trainin' that contralto of yours.

" "I got a contralto that" "There never was anything give me more pleasure than them first years you used it.

Her voice was a throaty contralto.

Her voice was a charming contralto, evidently partially trained, and promising with coming years to be worth consideration.

As a matter of fact Betty had a clear little contralto of her own and she sang as naturally as a bird.

that deep contralto note, the "Jug" of the nightingale.

Cornificia, subduing her contralto voice, read the letter aloud: "To Nimius Secundus Sextus, son of Galienus Maximus, the freedman Rufus Glabrio sends humble greeting.

[It]; baritone, barytone^; contralto.

But the vision was peeping over the bannisters at him, and the vision's eyes were sparkling with a lucent mischief and a wonderful, half-hushed contralto was demanding of him: "Oh, where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy?

But while I peered she let me hear her voice, and a very rich one it wasalmost deep in tonethe voice of a woman who would sing contralto.

The voices which sang were of a deep, plaintive contralto, much resembling the richness of a tenor, and us they moved in modulated waves of chanting sound the effect was soothing and dreamy.

Let him trust to that as long as he can. Don't talk of the solitude of a night in the primeval forests, however far from the abodes of man;the squirrels and the partridges may be asleep then and there, but the katydids are awake, and, with the support of contralto and barytone tree-toads, manage to keep up a concert which cannot fail to impress on you a sense of familiar and friendly company.

Very often the wood was like a harp; a breeze touched the strings, and every now and then the murmur seemed about to break into a little tune, and as if in emulation, or because he remembered his part in the music, a blackbird, perched near to his mate, whose nest was in the hawthorns growing out of the tumbled wall, began to sing a joyful lay in a rich round contralto, soft and deep as velvet.

Miss McQuinch sang a few words in a piercing contralto voice, and then stopped with a gesture of impatience, feeling that she was out of tune.

She furnished him with contrast enough, for she differed from Sontag in these respects, that she was only twenty-two, she was a contralto, dark and Spanish, and was known to be married.

He liked Italian women much and many, but it was in Berlin that he made his declarations to a Jewish contralto, for whose voice he wrote six studies.

And then Contralto, "Mais seulement il se transpose Et passant de la forme au son, Trouvant dans la métamorphose La jeune fille et le garçon.

strange contraltos; the forms?

But one day Keller deserted her, as she had deserted others, to take up with a sickly, languid contralto, whose best charms could have been hardly comparable to the morbid delicacy of a hot-house flower.

She had a pleasant laugh and smile, her voice being low, distinct, and intensely sympathetic in quality; it was contralto in singing, but she seldom sang or played before more than one or two friends.

For I'm a contralto

The deep, majestic basses throbbed out the foundation of the great fuguelike chorus, and the sopranos soared and soared until they were singing falsetto, according to gorgio standards, only it sounded like the sweetly piercing high notes of violins, and the tenors and contraltos wove a garland of glancing melody between the two.

Janet joined him with a subdued contralto, and the two voices, without words, made themselves into a harmonious undertone of an accompaniment.

strange contraltos; the forms?

She had a noble contralto voice, with a rich mannish purr in it.