" "All right," answered Gull, reaching down and picking a small five-stringed instrument off the floor; "what'll you have?

Strange cries arose, the bumping of sampans, the mournful caterwauling of a stringed instrument.

The earliest form of literature is the ballad, which is the germ of all subsequent forms of poetry, for it has in itself all their elements: the lyric, for it was first chanted to some stringed instrument; the epic, for it tells a tale, often of solemn and ancient report; the dramatic, for its actors are ever ready to start forward into life, snatch the word from the mouth of the narrator, and speak in their own persons.

The langeleik, or Norwegian harp, is a long, narrow, box-like stringed instrument, something of the character of the ancient zither.

Chaps don't always like being played on as on a stringed instrument.

[Footnote 1: with allusion to the frets or stop-marks of a stringed instrument.]

Their mimicry and acrobatic feats were less thought of than their long poems or lays of wars and adventures, which they recited in doggerel rhyme to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument.

[Footnote E: A stringed instrument played in the same way as the European guitar.

One of them stood near, playing upon a kind of stringed instrument, made out of the stem of a cabbage-palm, and about two feet, or two feet and a half, in length.

The music was performed by three men, one of whom twanged a stringed instrument, while the second struck a metal globe, and the third played the flute.

A throat like a ten-stringed instrument, surmounting square shoulders that end in knobs that obtrude above unfilled hollows, is an unpleasing vision that looms up conspicuously too often in opera-box and drawing-room.

Occasionally I hear very sweet strains of music,whether of a wind or stringed instrument, or a human voice, strange as it may seem, I have often tried to find out, but through the partition I could not be quite sure.

Truly has the human heart been compared to a many stringed instrument, giving diversity of sound as it is swept by different winds.

Our guilty parents fly before the flaming sword,poor Eve cowering, and her hair streaming in a wavy flood upon the wind; and before them, but unseen, Death leaps and curvets to the sound of a vielle or rote,an old musical stringed instrument,which he has hung about his neck.

We visited one or two of the stores to make some final purchases, and in the evening strolled through the dusky streets and under the trees of the plaza; the women and girls sat in groups in the doorways or at the windows, and here and there a stringed instrument tinkled in the darkness.

Each night from these palm-thatched quarters we heard the faint sounds of a music that went far back of civilization to a savage ancestry near by in point of time and otherwise immeasurably remote; for through the still, hot air, under the brilliant moonlight, we heard the monotonous throbbing of a tomtom drum, and the twanging of some old stringed instrument.

" Compared to the, French, who had turned grim and gave their prayers as individuals to hearten their soldiers, the Germans were as responsive as a stringed instrument to the master musician's touch.

Our commander was under thirty years of age; and that destroyer responded to his will like a stringed instrument.

And embracing Bhimasena even as a she-elephant embraceth her mighty mate, the faultless Panchali addressed him in voice sweet as the sound of a stringed instrument emitting Gandhara note.

The Nahuas were not acquainted with any stringed instrument.

These songs are usually accompanied by the music of a stringed instrument of the guitar kind made by the musician himself, to which is added the "güiro," a kind of ribbed gourd which is scraped with a small stick to the measure of the tune, and produces a noise very trying to the nerves of a person not accustomed to it.

In the perverse odor of the perfumes, in the overheated atmosphere of the temple, Salome, her left arm outstretched in a gesture of command, her right arm drawn back and holding a large lotus on a level with her face, slowly advances on her toes, to the rhythm of a stringed instrument played by a woman seated on the ground.

PAGANINI, NICOLO, a celebrated Italian violinist, born at Genoa of humble origin; widely famous for his astonishing feats on a single-stringed instrument; was a composer of musical pieces for both violin and guitar; died rich (1784-1840).

There was no Caledonian harp, though; but a remarkably dirty fellow in the procession seemed to be making up for the lack of one stringed instrument by bringing another,the Scotch fiddle!on which he perpetually played the tune of "God bless the gude Duke of Argyle!" There were harps with one, two, and three sets of strings,harps with gold strings, silver strings, brass strings,strings of cat-gut and brass,strings red, and brown, and white.

Apollo playing on his stringed instrument presents a very graceful appearance; but fancy a Welsh Orpheus with a face all seamed and scarred by smallpox,a short, fiery button in the middle of his countenance, serving for a nose,a mouth awry and toothless,and two long, dirty, bony hands, with claw-like fingers tipped with dark crescents,and I do not think the picture will be a pleasant one.