At the same age she would extemporize for hours on the organ, after wreathing the candlesticks with garden-flowers which she had brought in her hand,their scent, she would say, suggesting the wild, sweet fancies which her fingers seemed able to call forth on the shortest notice.

His forte was in declamation: his attitude and delivery, and power of extemporizing, surprised even critical listeners into unguarded praise.

Thrusting one thumb into the arm-hole of his waistcoat, he waved the other hand in the air, and, with an extemporizing gaze at the shining sheep-crooks above the mantelpiece, began: "O my trade it is the rarest one, Simple shepherds

say what comes uppermost; improvise, extemporize.

[Render unprepared] dismantle &c (render useless) 645; undress &c 226. extemporize, improvise, ad lib.

improvisar, to improvise, extemporize.

One day, in a pause of a brilliant ball, they were called upon suddenly to extemporize (it was on a private hint from themselves) one of these exhibitions.

I dared not sit still, lest a sun-stroke should be added, and there was no resource but to hop or crawl down the rugged path, in the hope of finding a forked sapling from which I could extemporize a crutch.

In the case of active war, foreign or civil, the General Hospital is usually an extemporized establishment, the building a makeshift, and the arrangements such as the building will admit.

He could scarcely recollect a word of his part, but he remembered the general drift of it, and had ready wit enough to extemporize.

"Authorize, disauthorise, and unauthorized; Temporize, contemporise, and extemporize.

"Authorize, disauthorize, and unauthorized; Temporize, contemporize, and extemporize.

That would bring Federal troops in Federal ships of war, and in a short, quick struggle the substantial standing preparations of the Government would overcome the extemporized preparations of the State, and the insurrection would be hopelessly quelled.

The mob were pressed back and comparative quiet restored, and when I finished the reading of my address I began to extemporize.

It was also an object with him, that the clowns or buffoons should not occupy a more important place than that which he had assigned them: he expressly condemns the extemporizing with which they loved to enlarge their parts.

The accursed prompter speaks so indistinctly; and then if you want to extemporize once in a while, it always goes wrong.

Then, introducing the other end of the tube into the gullet as far as its length would permit, I cautiously poured a small quantity of the permanganate solution into the extemporized funnel.

If he dared to howl when Bud was extemporizing, Bud would rebuke him solemnly, explaining that it was not considered polite in the best circles to interrupt a soloist.

Their speech, with its Italian terminations, flowed easily into singing, and they extemporized, as the negroes do, the slightest incidents in rhythmical language.

Cutting off the ear and nose was an ordinary barbarity,in its origin it was a way to save time in collecting ornaments; shutting fifty or more into a house and setting it in flames was a favorite method of extemporizing a bonfire; pricking a crowd of insurgent natives over a precipice into the sea was an exceptional act of mercy,they would place one hand over their eyes and take the plunge.

It was conducted in this manner: The names of several subjects were written on separate slips of paper, and these being placed in a box, each bard took one folded up and with but brief preparation was expected to extemporize a poem on the theme he had drawn.

But, what was infinitely preferable to me, I heard him extemporize in private; yes, I was even invited to propose a theme for him to vary.

Now he lay on the couch, now rose and stood, now walked about the room, now threw himself again on the couch; while, all the time his wife played softly on her piano, extemporizing and interweaving, with an invention, taste, and expression, of which before her marriage she had been quite incapable.

"There," she said, skillfully extemporizing a bandage from her handkerchief and a compress from his cravat.

And it never occurred to the nurse to extemporize some expedient,it never occurred to her that as he had had no solid food that day he might eat a bit of toast (say) with his tea in the evening, or he might have some meal an hour earlier.