At sixteen's stage of cruel hazing into man's estate Edwin Ross, whose voice, all in a breath, could slip up from the quality of rock in the drilling to the more brittle octave of early-morning milk-bottles, wore a nine shoe and a thirteen collar.

And by keeping octave days and days within the octave as feasts of nine lessons, they almost entirely destroyed the weekly recitation of the psalter; and a large portion of the Breviary ceased to be used at all.

At the end of this prologue a shepherd appears and finishes the second octave with the couplet: State attenti, brigata; buono augurio; Poi che di cielo in terra vien Mercurio.

Believing he must possess his soul in patience for an indeterminable wait, he was casting about for a place to secrete himself, when a change in the tenor of the talk between mistress and maid was conveyed by a sudden lift of half an octave in the latter's voice, sounding a sharp note of protest, to be answered by Liane in accent of overbearing anger.

The Octave to the feast dates from the eighth century.

These differ only in the rate of vibration, each plane vibrating through one great octave, with gulfs of "lost" octaves between.

They extend for two octaves above the violet of the spectrum and are too short to affect the eye as light, although they affect photographic plates.

The exceptions are, when at second Vespers of St. Thomas, the office of the octave of the Nativity to be observed on 30th December has to be commemorated again, in octaves like octaves of Epiphany when each day has its proper antiphon at the Magnificat, and again on and July in second Vespers of Visitation the office of St. Peter and Paul is to be commemorated.

two octaves below a bull's beller, Bein' a military person, he was fond of charges; me and Hadds, bein' plain civilians, weren't.

Yet a child can answer the question by sounding an octave on the piano.

The thrill of vibration in one octave through the differentiated consciousness of the universe by which the light was separated from the darkness, the lower from the higher, was all that was required to create each star and sun, and world, and all that in them is.

According to the researches of the Ecole Polytechnique, in Parisno doubt you, yourself, have studied there, n'est-ce pas?vibration of the first octave from 2 to 8 per second, give us no sense-impression.

In 1517 we find a fantastic pastoral entitled Pulicane, written in octaves by Piero Antonio Legacci dello Stricca, a Sienese, who was also the author of several rustic pieces, in which is introduced a monster half dog and half man.