802 examples of fiddling in sentences

There shall you see a puny boy start up, And make a theme against common lawyers; Then the old, unwieldy camels 'gin to dance, This fiddling boy playing a fit of mirth; The greybeards scrub, and laugh, and cry, Good, good!

Then let us leave this baser fiddling trade; For though our purse should mend, our credits fade.

He was still fiddling away at it when Mike returned.

I overheard a young lady of my acquaintance, at a dance in Edinburgh, exclaim in a sudden pause of the music, "What you say, my Lord, is very true of love in the abstract, but," here the fiddlers began fiddling furiously, and the rest was lost.'

Like sudden snow on a summer meadow, a white silence fell from his imagination across that fiddling, jigging, gleaming atmosphere, and everywhere the dead sat around him, watching in a trance strange antics of the grimacing dead.

She stood fiddling with her diamond chain and purring over her frock, so I suppose she is fond of her in spite of Octavia hating her.

Her portholes and her bay-window were blazing with lights, and there was a noise of singing and fiddling on her decks.

Her portholes and her bay-window were blazing with lights, and there was a noise of singing and fiddling on her decks.

" Crabbe's son, after his father's death, cited in a note on these lines what he hold to be a parallel passage from Cowper's Progress of Error, beginning: "Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, A cassocked huntsman, and a fiddling priest.

THE AMERICAN FLAG Joseph Rodman Drake BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC Julia Ward Howe "STONEWALL" JACKSON'S WAY J.W. Palmer BARON MUNCHAUSEN THE FIDDLING PARSON

The liberal introduction of these excerpts was attractive to a large section of the public who did not care for fine works of musical art or "too much fiddling."

Fithian marveled at the evidences of wealth and the stratification of society, but he reckoned that a well recommended Princeton graduate, with no questions asked as to his family, fortune or business, would be rated socially as on an equal footing with the owner of a £10,000 estate, though this might be discounted one-half if he were unfashionably ignorant of dancing, boxing, fencing, fiddling and cards.

he was fiddling with the church bell, was he, and dd for thateh?

The mystery of the fiddling.

The mystery of the fiddling.

Fiddling cowboy.

Mr. Skale, as they walked over the snowy moors in the semi-darkness between tea and dinner, had been speaking to him about the practical results obtainable by sound-vibrations (what he already knew for that matter), and how it is possible by fiddling long enough upon a certain note to fiddle down a bridge and split it asunder.

"Yes," says the boy, fiddling with 'is fingers; "if you keep your ugly mouth shut, we'll go shares.

It was a long time, too, before I began to feel how much better his fiddling was than any I had ever heard.

It didn't seem to have as much tune to it as the old-style fiddling, and he would hardly ever play for dances; but his fiddle just seemed to sing.

"Like!" say I, evasively, casting down my eyes, and fiddling uneasily with one of the buttons of his coat, "it is hardly a question of 'like,' is it?

Every blind fiddler in the streets plays it, though he would be sufficiently scared if death came any the quicker for his fiddling.

The dancers deserted their polka, the musicians stopped fiddling, the noisy supper-party in the next arbor abandoned their cold chicken and salad, and everybody ran to the scene of action.

" Senator "Bob" Taylor, of Tennessee, tells a story of how, when he was "Fiddling Bob," governor of that state, an old negress came to him and said: "Massa Gov'na, we's mighty po' this winter, and Ah wish you would pardon mah old man.

The old man kept on fiddling, apparently paying no attention to them, until his small audience, reviling and mocking him, left him and gathered around an organ-grinder who had taken up his position near by.

802 examples of  fiddling  in sentences