"Tunable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this poem truly song? Indeed it is. The brazen voice of Rome becomes tunable; a majestic rhythm sustains the progress of the ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... is your message to me, graceful bird, with the rich joyful note! With what a thrill, too, do you bring back to me the brightness of old forgotten springs, the childish rapture at the sweet tunable cry! Then, in those far-off days, it was but the herald of the glowing summer days, the time of play and flowers and scents. But now the soft note, it seems, opens a door into the formless and uneasy ...
— The Thread of Gold • Arthur Christopher Benson
... to drive out sorrow; and, whether he was jealous of his wife or skulking from a bailiff, he would equally take refuge in the theatre. There, if the house be full and the company noble, if the songs be tunable, the actors perfect, and the play diverting, this old hero of the secret Diary, this private self-adorer, will speedily ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various
... he saw on the Western side of this Country. Some part of their Bodys had been painted with red, and one of them had his upper lip and breast painted with Streakes of white, which he called Carbanda. Their features were far from being disagreeable; their Voices were soft and Tunable, and they could easily repeat any word after us, but neither us nor Tupia could ...
— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook
... strikes, a solemn Te Deum is sung on the top of Magdalen Tower, where the choristers assemble in surplices and with uncovered heads. When it closes the crowd on the ground below give out discordant blasts from myriads of tin horns, but the Magdalen chime of bells, said to be "the most tunable and melodious ring of bells in all these parts and beyond," soon drowns the discord, and gives a glad welcome to the opening of spring. This custom survives from the time of Henry VII., and the produce of two acres of land ...
— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook
... wealth nobly, two things more are indispensable the gift of language and a tunable voice, which last does not always come by talking ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade |
