Through the engine-room ventilators a long jingle of the telegraph was heard; and directly the Sybarite's pulses began to beat in quicker tempo, while darker volutes of smoke rolled in dense volume from her funnel and streamed away astern, resting low and preserving their individuality as long as visible, like a streak of oxidization on a field of frosted silver.

Meanwhile the toe of his right boot counted the increasing tempo until it came up and down like a ratchet.

Stringendo, jusque au bout!" and with a gasp the composer greeted the quickened tempo.

He always sang with his eyesor, to be more exact, his eyeclosed, indicating the tempo by swinging his head to and fro.

Littérateurs, hack-writers, and productive authors have succeeded, contrary to good taste and the true culture of the age, in bringing the world elegante into leading-strings, so that they have been taught to read a tempo and all the same thingnamely, the newest books order that they may have material for conversation in their social circles.

The torpor of the little town had taken the light from his eyes and reduced the tempo of his movements, but, in spite of all, he had preserved certain vivid features of his personality.

And watching her closely, Victor permitted himself a smile of satisfaction as he noted the rapidity with which she yielded to the hypnogenic spell of the translucent quartz; how her breathing quickened, then took on a measured tempo like that of a sleeper; how a faint flush warmed the unnatural pallor of her cheeks, how her dilate eyes grew fixed in an unwinking stare, and slightly glassed....

The player varied the tempo and the emphasis, working further into the piece, exploring its edges without losing its rhythmic heart.