As my grandfather was the only old gentleman of my acquaintance, a wooden leg seemed the natural and suitable accompaniment of old age.

Still it is always a pleasant evening, one sees plenty of people to talk to and the music is a cheerful accompaniment to conversation.

She had the soft, lack-lustre beauty of the South; no ruddiness of coral, no waxen white, no pink of shell; no heavenly blue in the glance; but a face that seemed, in all its other beauties, only a tender accompaniment for the large, brown, melting eyes, where the openness of child-nature mingled dreamily with the sweet mysteries of maiden thought.

I remember the waiting at the doornot that which is leftbut between that and an inner door in shelterO when shall I be such an expectant again!with the cry of nonpareils, an indispensable play-house accompaniment in those days.

She began humming to an almost inaudible accompaniment on the piano: "'Ring, ting, it is the merrie springtime....'" The rain rolled dully down the clouded window-panes and spattered off the English-ivy leaves below the sill.

Notwithstanding some difficulties attending the manipulation of this instrument, Piney Woods managed to pluck several reluctant melodies from its keys, to an accompaniment by the Innocent on a pair of bone castanets.

There are Ritualistic services at Saint Cow's, and he renders the organ-accompaniments with such unusual freedom from reminiscences of the bacchanalian repertory, that the Gospeler is impelled to compliment him as they leave the cathedral.

They should be served in the same manner and with the same accompaniments as with the plainly-roasted birds.

They had not been many minutes afloat before the guitar-case was opened, and the girls' voicesLaura's soprano and Hattie's contraltorang melodiously over the waves, mingled with feeble attempt at bass accompaniment from their gorgeous guardians.

Indeed, that touch of angry passion in her was the flower of Hermes to Red Jim, keeping him from complete infatuation when she sang to him, playing her own lightly-touched accompaniment at the piano.

But in a minute more Janet had turned to beckon to her friend, and was beginning an accompaniment without so much as waiting for Constance to reach the piano.

Having explained that he was the only survivor of a shipwrecked crew, he proceeded to tell some of his adventures in foreign lands, and afterwards described part of his experiences in a song, to which the doctor played an accompaniment behind the scenes.

He played with fire on his guitar, every minute breaking from his sparkling, thrilling accompaniment into a wild human chant, his face the while triumphant and passionate, but blind with such utter blindness that he seemed like the symbol of Man's life rather than a man; a great song of heart-yearning sung to the stars and to the Infinite rather than the singer of that song.

The sound-board has a crack in it somewhere, Nino says, and two of the notes are dumb since the great German maestro came home with my boy one night, and insisted on playing an accompaniment after supper.