295 examples of duet in sentences
The creek babbled and splashed; its voice merged with the wilds into a bleak, cheerless duet.
Marcia at once proposed a duet to conclude the entertainment, Rossini's Mira bianca luna,a piece for which she had reserved her force, and in which she could display the best qualities of her voice and style.
Greenleaf had a high and pure tenor voice; he exerted himself to support her, and with some success; the duet was a fitting close to a delightful and informal concert.
I constantly forced my accelerandos and rubatos upon the soloist, often throwing the duet entirely out of gear.
It makes me laugh to think how successful I was in concealing it all; within a short time after our duet all of the friends of my dear one were referring to me as her "little sweetheart," or her "little beau," and she laughingly encouraged it.
So I hurried home that afternoon, humming snatches of the violin part of the duet, my heart beating with pleasurable excitement over the fact that I was going to be near her, to have her attention placed directly upon me; that I was going to be of service to her, and in a way in which I could show myself to advantagethis last consideration has much to do with cheerful service.
She of the brown eyes unpacked her violin, and we went through the duet several times.
Perhaps I ought not pass on in this narrative without mentioning that the duet was a great success, so great that we were obliged to respond with two encores.
But our relations were not the same as they were when we had played our first duet together.
Both whistles arose in duet.
" "I cannot find that duet anywhere," said Marian, entering.
Marian: are you sure that duet is not on the sofa in my room?" "Oh, the sofa!
And, as music is an universal language, we cannot but think a fine Italian duet would be as much at home in the log cabin as one of Mrs. Gore's novels.
" It is only a titter, however, that Cibber can produce this afternoon, or evening,[A] nor does the audience take the usual relish in that touch-and-go rubbish of a duet sung by a supposed Indian and his love, a duet in which the former declares: "My other Females all Yellow, fair or Black, To thy Charmes shall prostrate fall, As every kind of elephant does To the white Elephant Buitenacke.
In the famed duet to KREUTZEE dedicated.
SEE Bohn, Carl. <pb id='010.png' n='1959h1/A/0718' /> Minuet and duet from Don Juan.
SEE Bohn, Carl. Minuet and duet from Don Juan.
Duet with Nicky.
So the duet went on, boy and bird, until Dodo and Nat lost count and could not tell which was which.
"Did you never hear the 'Wrens' duet'?
At the next house the ownera small, wizened lady of negligible physique but great staying powerentered upon a duet with Alphonso, which soon reduced that very moderate performer to breathlessness.
The inevitable duet with Alphonso followed.
The duet was resumed.
We drink coffee, we drink tea, we pick clever little holes in our absent neighbors, in brisk duet and tortuous solo we hammer the blameless spinnet, we sing affecting songs about "fair doves," and "cleansing fires," and people "far away," and still our deliverers come not.
His daughter sang an air upon the stage of the Court Theatre in her fifth year; and in 1739, just before her accession to the imperial dignity, being in Florence, she sang a duet with Senesinoof Handelian memorywith such grace and splendor of voice, that the tears rolled down the old man's cheeks.