De best singers is dem dat's longes' trainin' an' I'se feared some of us'll find it drefful hard ter git up ter de proper concert pitch in heaven ef we sings nuthin but lamentashuns on earth.

"And then," said Pearl, "I could see the people wanted to sing or cry, or dance, or something, to work off their emotions; so I signalled to Bessie Cowan, who is one of our best singers, to start a hymn that the children sing every morning.

He was a good singer, and a great favorite of Carl's.

They can understand how a man may have musical sensibility and yet not be a good singer; but they fail to understand, at least in their own case, how a man may have literary sensibility, yet not be a good story-teller or an effective dramatist.

It is generally believed that the young males are the best singers, and that age diminishes their vocal capacity.

Nearly three of the members of the choir are really good singers; the remainder are what may be termed only moderate.

Mr. Hawkesworth is a practical priest, a good singer, and a hard worker.

There is, too, a strong Irish influence in the greater number of the songs; quite a large proportion are sung to the tune of the “Wearing of the Green,” and the admixture of Irish wit and Irish pathos in their composition can only be brought out by a good singer.

Wagner had personally visited the opera-houses throughout the land and selected the best singers.

They got Lady Greswold to give their first concert, and enclosed programmes with the invitations, so hardly any of the Duchesses felt they could refuse, Octavia said, when they were certain of hearing the best singers for nothing; and it was a splendid plan, as many concerts have been spoilt by a rumour getting about that Melba was not really going to sing.

ADMIRALTY, June 22, 1838 Evening at a Concert at the Palaceall the good singers....

As one of her brothers, who was a good singer, entered the room, she asked him to sing 'Vital spark of heavenly flame.'

The "Spectator," I believe, somewhere says it is necessary for a good dancer to have a good understanding; but I think it is much more necessary for a good singer to have a good and feeling heart; and whether singing or acting his part in the drama of life, with family, friends, or brother (not forgetting sister) performers, Charles Incledon had as warm a heart as ever beat.

"Is he your best singer?" enquired the Mother.

These were selected not on account of being the best scholars, but with reference to their being the best singers, although some of them are among the best scholars.

"Zenow-Owan" means "melodiously-speaking John"; "Chor-Hussan" means "good singer"; "Tschentschchapokrik" means "sparrow"; and "Zöranwegi," "cowardly Wegi.

Why, Susie Duffy was the best singer on the Murrumbidgee, and she would sing for any one who asked her, and free of charge.

Naturally good singer.

" "Singers, singers, all good singers," remarked Baily, who was at the telephone.

You often wagered a pot of ale on my play; you used to say I'd make the best player of fives, and the best singer of a song, within ten miles round the meer.

Miss Hodson was a brilliant burlesque actress, a good singer, and a capital dancer.

She is the best singer-actress that I know.

But before they left Rome for Vienna there was a little wedding, early in the morning, in our parish church, for I was there; and De Pretis, who was really responsible for the whole thing, got some of his best singers from St. Peter and St. John on the Lateran to come and sing a mass over the two.

She wuz a good singer, her voice full of the sweetness and heart searchin' pathos of her race.

Good singers, he was reminded, always needed a lot of pressing.