The title page says it was "written fyrst in Latinby Erasmus." Ascribed to Dudley Tenner by Foster Watson, The English Grammar Schools (Cambridge, 1908), p. 89.

This enterprising parson seems to have borrowed his recipe for the simple life from GRAY'S Elegy: Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenner of their way.

"Very well," said the Colonel, "make it a tenner.

as the dutiful daughter modestly gave place to papa; a Bank of England tenner passed from my friend's smallclothes to the cutler's small till, and a half-crown vice versa.

Now look here, my boy(confidentially)suppose you and me just divide that tenner between us, five to you, and five to me; and, as to the "underpinning"well, nobody'll be a bit the wiser, and the building won't be a halfpenny the worse, I'll bet my boots.

B. John Braham, née Abraham (1774?-1856), the great tenor.

It appears by the tenor of his reasoning, that he considers this house as only obliged, in questions relating to supplies, to ratify the determinations of the other; to submit implicitly to their dictates, and receive their sovereign commands, without daring either to refuse compliance, or delay it.

He and all Jews were much astonished at the tenor of Lord Brougham's Act, and got not a little frightened; for all the merchants of Mogador, Christians and Jews, more or less aid and abet the slave-trade, all having connections with slave-dealers.

"She sleeps, my lady sleeps!" sang the clear tenor of Arthur Updyke.

From this, and from the whole tenor of what has been extracted from the Diary, will be seen in what his ministry consisted, and what was the call and the power which was required in every successive exercise of it.

They were playing Hernani at the Theatre des Italiens, with a new tenor named Guasco.

In vain we told them that we would engage no donkeys at all, and no horses till we reached our destination; in vain we bade them allow us to "pursue the even tenor of our way" in peace, and hush their high soprano tones.

The tenor of our communications will be gathered from these quotations from a personal telegram sent by me to Admiral de Chair on April 26, viz.: "For Rear-Admiral de Chair from First Sea Lord.

Had I married Miss Chaworth, perhaps the whole tenor of my life would have been different; she jilted me, however, but her marriage proved anything but a happy one."

In children the vocal cords are shorter than in adults.[50] The cords of tenor singers are also shorter than those of basses and baritones.

Let not our eyes be fixed upon his defects, but upon the general tenor of his life.

The career of a great opera-singer is rarely more than half as long as that of a great tragedian, and even when a primadonna or a tenor makes a fortune, the decline of their glory is far more sudden and sad than that of actors generally is.

'The tenor has it all his own way.

It was of the same tenor as the king's address, and asked for authorization to negotiate with the Norwegian Storthing for the establishment of a common basis for the settlement of the question involved in the separation of the two kingdoms.

His handsome person reminded one of an Italian tenor singer, and his manner was a graceful mixture of hauteur and insinuating courtesy.

To sweep away this cobweb, I urge the reader to recall here the general tenor of the analysis of the preceding chapters.

This doctrine is apt to prove somewhat puzzling, when we have to deal with it as an apparent exception to the general tenor of economic theory.

There is the famous tenor, Beard, for instance, the creator of "Samson."

He had two sons, the elder of whom became a priest, and a tenor in his father's church; the younger son became a physiciana good division of labour, for those patients whom the doctor lost could send for the priest.

A very high soprano and a musical tenor duet, sentimental, humoresque: "There, dry your eyes, I sympathize Just as a mother would Give me your hand, I understand, we're off to slumber land Like a father, like a mother, like a sister, like a brother.

They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

In changing his plan, however, which was done in the course of printing, the early sheets retained the vestiges of the original tenor of the story, although they now hang upon it as an unnecessary and unnatural encumbrance.

] The tenor of Senator Tallmadge's speech on the right of petition, in the last Congress, and of Mr. Webster's on the reception of abolition memorials, may be taken as universal exponents of the sentiments of northern statesmen as to the power of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.

" To argue the anti-slavery character of the Federal Constitution, it is not necessary to take the high ground of some, that whatever in the Constitution favors slavery is void, because opposed to the principles and general tenor of that instrument.

Progressive studies for tenor banjo.