19 Verbs to Use for the Word octave

If one of the Sages of the East could be called up and put on the stand to be questioned, he would say, substantially: "You are right in regard to your ether, and to prakriti being ether that has been dropped a great octave in vibration.

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

When he struck the last octave, he sprang up, yelling with delight: "Um's got him, Massa!

As we divide the seven octaves of a piano into Treble and Bass for clearness of thought and writing, so the Hidden Knowledge divides the seven octaves of vibration, or planes, into Spirit and Matter.

It was in a former Trinity Chapel that he had said his first Mass, and whether on this account or another, his devotion was such that it was he who first established that Feast, till then merely the octave of Whitsunday.

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.

[Footnote 162: 'Wondrous octave:' Trinity Sunday.]

This has been done by reducing or raising the vibration of each within one octave each one of the eighty odd having a special octave, a tone or half-tone different from any other.

What can it be?" The clear tones had leaped a full octave, and with a mingled sound of pipes and flutes went trilling deliriously on a high note until the listeners held their breath with delight.

That the clay whistles or pitch pipes, which may be manipulated in quartette, will produce an octave and a fourth.

The feminine string rings a true octave with the masculine, and makes a perfect concord, when left to vibrate in its entire length.

In the poetry of our language I don't think we are to look for any thing analogous to the notes of the gamut; for, except perhaps in a few exclamations or interrogations, we are at liberty to raise or sink our voice an octave or two at pleasure, without altering the sense of the words.

And Billy's voice shook and skipped whole octaves as he pleaded with her, for he knew she did not believe him and he could not endure the horror of her eyes.

It is so good in sin to keep in sight The white hills whence we fell, to measure by To say I was so high, so white, so pure, And am so low, so blood-stained and so base; I revel here amid the sweet sweet mire And yonder are the hills of morning flowers; So high, so low; so lost and with me yet; To stretch the octave 'twixt the dream and deed, Ah, that's the thrill!

And they watched, amazed,but less so really than an ordinary piano tuner would have been,at the way he caught octaves, fifths and fourths, sixths and thirds up and down that keyboard like a juggler keeping seven tennis balls in the air.

" The green light vanished from the bulb, the hum of the interrupter swept down an octave or two and died away.

Erycius Puteanus (Vander Putten,) added the seventh note to complete the octave, in the sixteenth century.

While some elements are vibrating on higher and some on lower keys, we can consider them all as vibrating within one great octave, that octave of the universal Something which produces sensual matter, or prakriti.

This singular laugh consisted of a brilliant stacatto passage on a high key, interrupted by occasional snorts, and terminating with a slur which covered the whole descending octave.

19 Verbs to Use for the Word  octave