I answered sharply, working gradually up crescendo, until at last, to bring matters to a head, I said, "I don't agree with you; the Land Act of '81 was a necessity.

When I had thus attained my crescendo, Colin rose impressively, and embraced me with true French effusion.

Then she began a crescendo.

and sure enough there it was, that gargling crescendo of a whistle followed by a mighty crash, considerably nearer.

Like laughter jolly Begins the finale; Again does the 'cello its tones seem to lend Diminuendo ad molto crescendo.

According to the intensity of their various desires I am addressed crescendo as "Herr Ober-Leutenant," or "Herr Hauptmann," or "Herr Majeur," or "Herr Commandant."

Again, you need not be told that each fifth line of the two first recitatives requires a crescendo.

The easy evolution of thought in a melodious period, quietly taking up on its way a variety of incidental details, yet never lingering long enough over them to divert the attention or to suspend the continuous crescendo of interest, but by subtle influences of proportion allowing each clause of the sentence its separate significance, is the product of a natural gift, as rare as the gift of music, or of poetry.

This is sometimes strikingly seen at the rehearsal of a play: a passage which has fallen flat upon the ear is suddenly brightened into effectiveness by the removal of a superfluous phrase, which, by its retarding influence, had thwarted the declamatory crescendo.

The sound echoed from the walls and roof has a tremendous quality, and resolves itself into a grand sort of Wagnerian rhythm, making a vast crescendo, till with a rush we clear the tunnel, and are once more under the open sky.