205 examples of tuneful in sentences

Trifling the theme, not so the poet's praise, If great Apollo and the tuneful Nine First, for your bees a proper station find, 10 That's fenced about, and sheltered from the wind; For winds divert them in their flight, and drive The swarms, when loaden homeward, from their hive.

Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace, From every voice the tuneful accents fly, In soaring trebles now it rises high, And now it sinks, and dwells upon the base.

The Almighty listens to a tuneful tongue, And seems well-pleased and courted with a song.

Let no rough winds approach, nor dare Invade the hallowed bounds, Nor rudely shake the tuneful air, Nor spoil the fleeting sounds.

The tuneful ferment rises high, And works with mingled melody: Quick divisions run their rounds, A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; 10 Till Chaucer first, the merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose.

whose spotless life and charming lays Employed the tuneful prelate in thy praise: Blest man!

Great Dryden next, whose tuneful Muse affords The sweetest numbers, and the fittest words.

30 Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng I look for streams immortalised in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.

The swans, that on Cayster often tried Their tuneful songs, now sung their last, and died.

Offspring of a tuneful fire, Blest with more than mortal sire: Likeness of a mother's face, Blest with more than mortal grace: You with double charms surprize, With his wit, and with her eyes.

The former of these is long since laid in his urn, after having many years together endeared himself to all Greece, by his tuneful compositions.

In these various volumes there is much admirable work and many tuneful lyrics in the old charming, lilting strain, with not a few serious, thoughtful, stately pieces of verse, "the after-glow," as Stedman phrases it, "of a still radiant genius....

It is this that has given the Laureate his exalted place among the great literary influences of the century, and made him the one indubitable representative of English song, with all its tuneful music and rare and delicate art.

Well, I am discoveredand thou thyself, who thoughtest to shelter under the pease-cod of initiality (a stale and shallow device), art no less dragged to lightThy slender anatomythy skeletonian D fleshed and sinewed out to the plump expansion of six charactersthy tuneful genealogy deduced By the way, what a name is Timothy!

Then there was a spell of musical chairs, the First Engineer obliging at the piano, and afterwards giving a tuneful West-Country folk-song at the Doctor's request.

in silence laid Beneath thy olive's grateful shade, Pour the mild bliss that sooths the tuneful mind, And in thy zone the hostile spirit bind.

In every scene thy hands have drest, In every form by thee imprest, Upon the mountain's awful head, Or where the shelt'ring woods are spread; In every note that swells the gale, Or tuneful stream that cheers the vale, The cavern's depth, or echoing grove, A voice is heard of praise, and love.

Tho' hid from me the classic tongue, In which his heav'nly strain was sung, In Dryden's tuneful lines, I pierce The shaded beauties of his verse.

To the north in Virginia, to the west in Tennessee, and all along the seaboard the war had raged; but the thunder of its cannon had not disturbed the echoes of Branson County, where the loudest sounds heard were the crack of some hunter's rifle, the baying of some deep-mouthed hound, or the yodel of some tuneful negro on his way through the pine forest.

The day will come, when thou, with burning tears, Wilt long for home, and for thy native hills, And that dear melody of tuneful herds, Which now, in proud disgust, thou dost despise!

Every one who has been long in Italy knows very well, that the Cadences in the Recitativo bear a remote Affinity to the Tone of their Voices in ordinary Conversation, or to speak more properly, are only the Accents of their Language made more Musical and Tuneful.

Mad with jealousy and rage Have the tuneful twain departed. DARIA (aside).

" Dear, the random words you said Once, as we two walked apart, Still keep ringing in my head, Still keep singing in my heart: Like the lone pipe of a bird, Like a tuneful waterfall Far in desert places heard "God's dear love is over all!" Thro' the ceaseless toil and strife They have taught me to be strong!

The tuneful morn arose with locks of light The ear that drank her music's call was chill; The eye that shone was sealed in endless night, And cold and still

205 examples of  tuneful  in sentences