Do we say toon or tune

toon 50 occurrences

Gin the weather changes, or threatens to, let the traps go and strike for the toon.

Indeed, it has seemed to me, often, as I have thought upon her, that she will always be there, gliding silently through the deserted streets of that wee toon, on through all the ages that are to come, and always a cowled, veiled figure of reproach and hatred for the German race.

And so we could stop there, in the heat of the morning, for a bit of refreshment at a cafe that was once, I suppose, quite a place in that sma' toon.

I heard you sing it twenty-three years agone, in Motherwell Toon Hall!" "Calligan!"

You seeevery young fellow frae my toon is awa'.

E.) ay' toon CAERLEON, kahr le' on CHEYENNE, shi en' DUQUESNE, du kayn' FROUDE, frood GALAHAD, gal' a had GHENT, gent GRANTMESNIL, groN ma neel' GUINEVERE, gwin' e veer HOUYHNHNMS, hoo' in 'ms LEIODES, le o' deez MARACAIBO, mahr ah ki' bo OTAHEITE, o tah he' te POITIERS, pwaht ya' SEINE, sayn SIOUX, soo SKALD, skawld E

Some of us wuz always good fer a toon on the concertina, and the rest would dance.

They said he was the comic frae Glasga, and they asked me was I no gang wi' them tae the Toon Ha' to hear his concert.

I was nervous, I'll admit, when I reached the great toon.

I had an experience soon after I reached the big toon that was a bit scary at the first o' it.

And the noo, when the wife and I gang aboot the world, there's good folk in almost every toon we come to to mak' us feel at hame.

He'd ha' a reputation in the toon for being a great one wi' the lassies, and ither men, maybe, wad envy him.

Andy could ha' his way wi' any lassie, a'most, i' the toon.

She came to toon, a stranger.

It's a grand toon.

The toon, as it is, lives frae hand to mooth on the work the country does.

But in ma een the toon's a parasite.

A toon may be a braw and bonnie place enow for them that like it.

It's as if a man waur sair distressed because his toon was a dirty toon.

It's as if a man waur sair distressed because his toon was a dirty toon.

And he'd aye be talking of what a bad toon it was he dwelt in; how shiftless, how untidy.

And then, when they've begun tae go to work in sic a fashion, soon the whole toon will begin to want to look weel, and the streets will look as fine as the front yards.

But I was interested enough to look to see what that toon had done, later, and I found oot that its patriotism must ha' been awakened soon after, for it bocht its share and more o' bonds, and it gave its siller freely to all the bodies that needed money for war work.

They'd tell me, in one toon after anither, that it wadna be safe tae mak' ma talk against the Hun.

But I think that when I said hard things to the folk of a toon they were well served, as a rule, and I know that it's so that often and often folk turned to doing the things I'd blamed them for not doing even while they were most bitter against me, and most eager to see me ridden oot o' toon upon a rail, wi' a coat o' tar and feathers to cover me!

tune 1760 occurrences

And tune, fellow-fiddlers; Studioso and I are ready.

[They tune.

But see, our fellows unto play are bent; If not our minds, let's tune our instrument.

We'll teach each tree, ev'n of the hardest kind, To keep our woful name within their rind: We'll watch our flock, and yet we'll sleep withal: We'll tune our sorrows to the water's fall.

Now, Morpheus, rouse thee from thy sable den, Charm all his senses with a slumb'ring trance; Whilst old Sylvanus send[s] a lovely train Of satyrs, dryades, and water nymphs Out of their bowers to tune their silver strings, And with sweet-sounding music sing Some pleasing madrigals and roundelays, To comfort Sophos in his deep distress.

V. be harmonious &c adj.; harmonize, chime, symphonize^, transpose; put in tune, tune, accord, string.

V. be harmonious &c adj.; harmonize, chime, symphonize^, transpose; put in tune, tune, accord, string.

Adj. discordant; dissonant, absonant^; out of tune, tuneless; unmusical, untunable^; unmelodious, immelodious^; unharmonious^, inharmonious; singsong; cacophonous; harsh &c 410; jarring.

Music N. music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody &c 413; aria, arietta^; piece of music [Fr.], work, number, opus; sonata; rondo, rondeau [Fr.]; pastorale, cavatina^, roulade^, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza; cadence; fugue, canon, quodlibet, serenade,

Hoc posito quod aliae medicina non valeant, ista tune Dei misericordia valebit, et est medicina coronata, quae secretissime tenentur.

If you can tell how, you may sing this to the tune a sow-gelder blows. 4992.

The Swiss are said to be particularly liable to this disease, and when taken into foreign service, frequently to desert from this cause, and especially after hearing or singing a particular tune, which was used in their village dances, in their native country, on which account the playing or singing this tune was forbidden by the punishment of death.

The Swiss are said to be particularly liable to this disease, and when taken into foreign service, frequently to desert from this cause, and especially after hearing or singing a particular tune, which was used in their village dances, in their native country, on which account the playing or singing this tune was forbidden by the punishment of death.

Rousseau says, "The celebrated Swiss tune, called the Rans des Vaches, is an air, so dear to the Swiss, that it was forbidden under the pain of death to play it to the troops, as it immediately drew tears from them, and made those who heard it desert, or die of what is called la maladie de pays, so ardent a desire did it excite to return to their native country.

But it is from habit, recollections, and a thousand circumstances retraced in this tune by those natives who hear it, and reminding them of their country, former pleasures of their youth, and all those ways of living, which occasion a bitter reflection at having lost them.

You must know that we had each a partner, and the women sat at one end of the deck and the men stood at the other and were told the tune they had to whistle, when they rushed to us and each whistled his tune to his partner, who had to write the name on a piece of paper and hand it back, and the man who got back to the umpire first wonat least his partner did.

You must know that we had each a partner, and the women sat at one end of the deck and the men stood at the other and were told the tune they had to whistle, when they rushed to us and each whistled his tune to his partner, who had to write the name on a piece of paper and hand it back, and the man who got back to the umpire first wonat least his partner did.

Well, as you know, I haven't much ear for music, and I hoped I would get an easy tune; but when my partner, a long, thin, earnest man, with a stutter, burst on me and whistled wildly in my face, I had the hopeless feeling that I had never heard the tune before.

Well, as you know, I haven't much ear for music, and I hoped I would get an easy tune; but when my partner, a long, thin, earnest man, with a stutter, burst on me and whistled wildly in my face, I had the hopeless feeling that I had never heard the tune before.

In my own misery I was aware of her voice saying politely, "I have no idea what the tune is, but you whistle beautifullyquite like a gramophone.

"The tune," he replied very stiffly, "was 'Rule, Britannia!'" "Dear me," I replied meekly, "I thought at least it was something from Die Meistersinger;" but he deigned no reply and walked away, evidently hating me quite bitterly.

I shan't play that game again, and I can't believe the silly man really whistled "Rule, Britannia," for it is a simple tune and one with which I am entirely at home, whereasbut no matter!

It has become a light table joke with us, and when I plant my elbows on the table and hum a tune while we are waiting for the next course at dinner, Boggley mildly inquires, "Do the Best People do that?" It is a subject I never gave much attention to, but now awful doubts assail me.

When she finished they said they preferred Bengali music, it had more tune.

The town, which had resounded to the tramp of British regiments and to the tune of "Tipperary," these streets through which had surged a tide of fugitives, with wave after wave of struggling crowds, had become a silent place, with only a few shadows creeping through the darkness of that evening in war, and whispering a fear.

Do we say   toon   or  tune