Which preposition to use with fiddles
It seems that M. Théophile d'Aurelle plays the fiddle in the orchestra of the Café de Paris.
At midnight they saw sitting on a stone at the cave's mouth two red-capped fiddlers fiddling with all their might.
"Dan'l said he be hanged if he'd come," announced Tim, with a grim appreciation of the humorous side of the situation; "so I hung him and brought him alongand his fiddle to boot.
Dot brute Tim, he come unt ask me to fiddle for a dance.
The one has been led away by a love of etymologythe other would string the fiddle at the expense of poor puss's viscera.
He was a Tiberius, but not a Nero fiddling over national calamities, and surrounding himself with stage-players, buffoons, and idiots.
The queen answered, "Why should I do nothing but fiddle about the nursery?"
Her portholes and her bay-window were blazing with lights, and there was a noise of singing and fiddling on her decks.
A cat came fiddling out of a barn, With a pair of bag-pipes under her arm; She could sing nothing but fiddle-de-dee, The mouse has married the bumble-bee; Pipe, cat,dance, mouse, We'll have a wedding at our good house.
He clapped his fiddle under his chin and played the air of the andante from the Kreutzer Sonata with so singing and heavenly a tone that Sylvia, as helpless an instrument in his skilful hands as the violin itself, felt the nervous tears stinging her eyelids.
SUSAN Fiddle of the newspapers, who else can it be?
Old John's wants were inquired into, and we left him fiddling among his rusty tools.
And one that lov'd a Fiddle as her Life, Free from all sordid Ends, from Interest free, For my own Sake affecting only me, What a blest Union should our Souls combine!
" "I've had too good a nurse," he answered, stroking her hand, "not to be as fit as a fiddle by now.
I felt very anxious to make an excursion from St. Louis, and get a little shooting, either to the north-west or down near Cairo, where there are deer; but my companion was dying to get to New Orleans, and strongly urged me not to delay, "fiddling after sport."
The very way that the country fiddler held his fiddle against his chest and never against his shoulder like the trained musician!
The Council Fire was to be held on the great flat rock that overhung the Devil's Punch Bowl; an impressive place indeed to hold a Camp Fire Ceremonial, up there right under the stars, it seemed, with the wind fiddling through the branches all around them and the water whispering to itself below.