Adjective : a five-stringed banjo. ,stringed melodies. From Dictionary.com.
Negrito's own brain, but they have probably borrowed the idea of stringed violins and guitars from the Christianized natives. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
One of them performed on a kind of stringed instrument, made out of the stem of a cabbage-palm, and about two feet, or two feet and a half, in length. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
"Every kind of stringed instrument there is plays in your hands, Thea," he whispered, pressing them to his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
One of them stood near, playing upon a kind of stringed instrument, made out of the stem of a cabbage-palm, and about two feet, or two feet and a half, in length. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference
For the music director, on my stringed instruments. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
Mr. SHORTZ: For the V, think of a stringed instrument. From Wordnik.com. [Time To Get Very Creative] Reference
Somewhere on the grounds a stringed orchestra was playing. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Mr. GREENBERG: It is what we call a double-stringed quartet. From Wordnik.com. [Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' at 150] Reference
Or is he afraid of wetting his fine golden-stringed sandals?. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
This is the principle on which stringed instruments are built. From Wordnik.com. [Electricity for Boys] Reference
They brought their small stringed wooden instruments with them. From Wordnik.com. ['The Mighty Uke': A Musical Underdog Makes A Comeback] Reference
A stringed orchestra was playing something soft, plaintively sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Art of Playing the Viol; six-stringed and four-stringed Viols; Martin. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
"Oh," exclaimed Louise, as the white, pink-stringed box was brought forth. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The higher-pitched stringed kora is a perfectly able complement to the bass. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Talents] Reference
SIEGEL: The Chinese - I can't resist saying the two-stringed Chinese violin. From Wordnik.com. [The Sonorous Strings of the Erhu] Reference
Violin -- very, very, very sleepy, drones the drowsy four-stringed leviathan. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
The music was weird and whimsical, as there were neither stringed nor brass instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
She's mentored public school children in Boston who are interested in stringed instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Going Out On A Glissando: BSO Harpist Retires] Reference
And although I thought ukes were round, I have clearly got my stringed instruments mixed up. From Wordnik.com. [A working life: Ukulele teacher] Reference
From the hallway we watched them toss her mirror, her stringed mittens, her one-piece swimsuits. From Wordnik.com. [Deer People] Reference
Hitherto Apollo had heard nothing but the music of his own three-stringed lyre and the syrinx, or. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
TERPSICHORE, the muse of Dance and Roundelay, is represented in the act of playing on a seven-stringed lyre. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
They think of this little plastic toy-looking stringed instrument with a palm tree painted on it or something. From Wordnik.com. [In the Hands Of A Master, The Ukulele Is No Toy] Reference
She was wielding two mallets to play a stringed instrument that lay on its side supported by a carved-wood stand. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
The orchestra consists of nearly 80 first-class musicians, of whom about three-fourths play on stringed instruments. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
There is no direct evidence as to the name of the master from whom he learnt the art of making stringed instruments. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
Luthiers make bespoke stringed instruments, such as the 42-string Pikasso guitar Linda Manzer crafted for Pat Metheny. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, what's that sound: Homemade guitars] Reference
It is the sweetest music that even God's skilled fingers will ever be able to win from your thousand stringed heart harp. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
They're backed by horns, percussion, Cuban stringed instruments such as the cuatro, as well as machine beats and scratching. From Wordnik.com. [A Lo Cubano] Reference
In their cups, habitués of the Mad House often turn to the gusle, a single-stringed fiddle used to accompany Serbian epic poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Where Karadzic Drank ‘Blood’] Reference
The music was instrumental and vocal, the former composed entirely of stringed instruments, and we were not at all inspired by it. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
It was their soft voices, accompanied by some peculiar stringed instruments they carried, that had produced the music I had heard. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
His tongue, hands, and feet, like stringed orchestra, seem trying to arrive at an amicable understanding, but never find the right chord. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
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