And to cut a gallant figure in such circumstances does not necessarily prove the performer to be a rara avis, even though he rides the whirlwind quite as splendidly as any bird existent.

Persons straying into the church, as they often did, attracted by the sound of music, would declare the performer to be an experienced masculine musician.

As author, and principal performer, standing before a noble audience, my mind was too much engaged with the arduous task I had undertaken, to glance my eyes towards the music gallery, or I might have seen two more spectators there than I expected.

This defect in me was always particularly regretted by my mother, she being an excellent performer herself both on the piano and on the harp.

The fourth performer in this trial of memories was an ancient lady, gaily dressed, and intently eager on the game.

Isabel went to the piano, but she was at no time a very brilliant performer, and the poor girl was so upset by Ida's unconscious and unwilling superiority, that she broke down in the middle of one of those hideous drawing-room pieces which seem specially "arranged" for the torture of those who are blessed or cursed with musical taste.

Just then the circus performer nearly ran against him.

Near two stands holding silver starred boxes was a performer in costume, evidently the conjurer of the show.

The trapeze yonderMurdock has cut the ropes, secured the bar with thread, and the slightest touch will send a performer to the ring with broken limbs.

Performer?" "Oh, noonly a little amateur practice.

The next instant the performer had dropped Andy in his clasp.

All that, however, was "shop talk" to the little performer, but Andy learned considerable from the keen-witted little fellow, who appeared to know as much about the ins and outs of show life as some veteran of the ring.

He is the chief performer in the delightful anthem that welcomes the rising day.

He afterwards made an attempt, in which, however, he does not seem to have persevered, to become a performer on the national instrument of his forefathers, the harp.

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Three drums and four flutes, the latter having four holes into one of which the performer blew with his nostrils, were the orchestra, and Cook's criticism is hardly complimentary: "The music and singing were so much of a piece that I was very glad when it was over."

So it is altogether fit that a performer of wonders should be on intimate terms with the serpent tribe.

Getting up, he joined the train of grisly attendants, and acquitted himself so well that the earl engaged him as performer in the masque.

Simon was a very mild performer in the water, but he had coolness, presence of mind, and inflexible tenacity of purpose.

And every plan of false prophecy, from the Arabian, who has enslaved half Asia, to the simple performer of forest juggling on the banks of Lakes Huron and Michigan, is explained as with beams of light. 31st.

Then taking the seat vacated by the other performer, he instantly gives the entire piece, intact in brilliancy and symmetry, not a note lost or misplaced.

To a Celebrated Female Performer in the "Blind Boy." First printed in the Morning Chronicle, 1819.

" With a quick movement, she tucked her violin under her chin and played a few measures of the worst sort of ragtime, in perfect imitation of a popular performer.

[140] A celebrated musical performer in upper Hindustan, and considered as the first in his art.

She was no unskillful performer on this instrument, and solely by such aid she gained her food and lodging to the interior of Georgia.