"Set ahead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... half an hour a day, by a thirty-minute sand-glass that could not be set ahead; and he shed tears enough over "The Carnival of Venice" to have raised the tide in the Grand Canal. They blurred the sharps and the flats on the music-books—those tears; they ran the crotchets and the quavers together, and, rolling down his ...
— A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs • Laurence Hutton |
