One would play and one would sing (rather like the song in the children's book, "one could dance and one could sing, and one could play the violin"), and the third, the polyglot of the family, could speak several languages.

" The Major took the violin and climbed through the window, proceeding to join the others, who were by now seated in the car.

There was a fugue, a wonderful finale, and while the concluding notes rang in their ears the old man laid his violin in his lap, leaned back against his cushions and heaved a deep sigh.

He brought her an old violin, nothing special, but the strings and the bow were in good shape.

I should like to hear a violin there or a hymn softly sung by some great artist.

In his hand Verty carried his old battered violin; at his heels stalked the grave and dignified Longears.

Dan'l sat softly tuning his violin, as if uninterested in the controversy.

"She hasn't been home, she's still got her violin," was the thought that went through Sahwah's mind.

[Footnote 1: Giuseppe Tartini, of Padua, the celebrated composer of the Devil's Sonata: in which he attempted to reproduce an air which he dreamt that Satan had played to him while he was asleep; but, in his own opinion, he failed so entirely, that he declared that if he had any other means of livelihood he would break his violin and give up music.]

Then old Reinhardt, gravely pontifical, rapped with his bow on his rack, lifted his violin to his chin, andan obliterating sponge was passed over Sylvia's memory.

He wants a violin.

The great room with its rich appointments, the superb piano, the lights, the merriment, the breeze from the east, rich with the heavy intoxicating perfume of countless flowers; the tall perfect figure, holding the violin with a master hand, making it speak the same language as I read in the dark eyes of the musician, while above and around was the soft warmth of an Australian summer night.

At any rate, the faint memory inspired him and, raising his violin, he played a beautiful lullaby.

At the first street corner he stopped and placed his violin to his shoulder to play, but catching a glance from the policeman across the street he hastily tucked his violin under his arm and shuffled on.

" "Abrahmyou meanheour Leonwanted a violin?" "'Wanted,' she says.

First let the sprightly violin The joyful melody begin, And none of all her strings be mute; While the sharp sound and shriller lay 10 In sweet harmonious notes decay, Softened and mellowed by the flute.

Of all instruments he loved the violin best, and in Rome he had had but little opportunity of hearing it well played.

The girl lowered her violin, and, with a low laugh, said to some one on the porchconcealed from the painter by the trunk of a sycamore"O Myra, I want to dance.

I like to be alone mit my violin.

The other moved the violin about, handled it lightly, familiarly, as one would play with a scarf.

Swift (as Lamb explained in the original essay in the New Monthly Magazine), seeing a lady's mantua overturning a violin (possibly a Cremona), quoted Virgil's line: "Mantua væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ!"

At the first street corner he stopped and placed his violin to his shoulder to play, but catching a glance from the policeman across the street he hastily tucked his violin under his arm and shuffled on.

"And why did you waver and wipe your brow and draw in your breath quickly and wait six and one fifth seconds before answering 'violin' when I gave you the word 'music'?" "I'm sure I don't know.

Ah,"he stopped short opposite a door with the upper half of glass and peered in"surely there is one of the music rooms where I used to practise the violin.

Uncle gave me a pair of shoes and a huckaback vest which the boy carried for me; in return I promised him my violin; you see, he's a poor child.