Four bedrooms, two en suite, and what estate agents describe as a minstrels 'gallery. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
Alfred's especial favorite in the minstrels was the fellow who handled the tambourine. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Newspapers catering to a genteel readership called minstrels “demons of disorder” who “made night hideous.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
In Matt. 9: 23, 24, notice is taken of players on the flute, here called "minstrels" (but in R.V. "flute-players"). From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
All these "minstrels," as we may call them, accompanied their singing by some instrument, generally one of the lute type or the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
And don't expect strolling minstrels at dinner, either. From Wordnik.com. [Their Royal Rebound] Reference
Plays, puppets and minstrels try to help out. art art art. From Wordnik.com. [Julie Gray: Human History in 300 Words] Reference
Thou'rt one of the minstrels that cheered me last Spring. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Landgrave appears with some minstrels, amongst them Wolfram von. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
There go the harpers and the minstrels and the kings of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French] Reference
Dunbar, and were the production of a class of professional minstrels. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Lin led in the singing of songs long since discarded by the minstrels. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
And so it was of the man who entered into an agreement to finance the minstrels. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
He selected Billy Storey to perform on these necessary adjuncts to the minstrels. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
He spent money liberally in equipping the minstrels for their first road venture. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
These minstrels are a stumbling-block in the way of the student of the growth of ballads. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
So in after-times the minstrels sang of the glorious deeds of Theseus the brave and fair. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Alfred repeatedly advised Lin that they never could be minstrels if they did not have bones. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The band of minstrels were busily rehearsing in the back room of Frank McKernan's shoe-shop. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
When Lin hailed them by shouting: "How-dye, how's the minstrels?" all greeted her cordially. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The minstrels were back in the old quarters, Frank McKernan's shoe-shop, rehearsing nightly. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
In front marched Ali-Ninpha, preceded by a numerous band of shrieking and twanging minstrels. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Her father was not incapable of intellectual pleasures; he had his court minstrels and poets. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
The Landgrave chooses "love" as the subject, whose nature is to be explained by the minstrels. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
In the great houses of the nobility and gentry, minstrels 'music was the usual seasoning of food. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The minstrels sang of the beauty and the great deeds of Bellerophon through all the lands of Argos. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
It was two o'clock in the morning when the welcome lights of the town shone on the belated minstrels. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Actually, they were there all along, in the songs of minstrels, in the Tarot and in Arthurian legend. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Deciphering 'Code'] Reference
Unexpected happenings brought the rehearsals of the minstrels in the old tan-yard to an abrupt ending. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Also to move a partition, giving the minstrels quite a large room which was provided with heat and light. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Alfred sang and resang the songs they had learned or deceived themselves into believing they had learned at the minstrels. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
We see her at the scaffold darkening in the air where the clouds are heaving like minstrels and the hawks watch as they fly. From Wordnik.com. [Magritte] Reference
Nor were the little band of minstrels, whose rehearsals had been checked by the fire and the loss of the melodeon, lost sight of. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
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