The two musicians, having finished tuning their hautbois and flutes, began to rehearse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Anticyclonic movement; "Depression" on the hautbois; increase of wind; then thunder, lightning, rain -- all the elements at it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891] Reference

There are no pressing questions about Bruckner performance like "With what shall we replace the Serpent?" or "What gives us the most authentic hautbois sound?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

'Viols d'amore' and 'hautbois' accorded to a hymn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men, Women and Ghosts] Reference

By her side a musician plays his hautbois to a dancing dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rouen] Reference

Acte cinquième: scène 8: L'amour vole au son des hautbois (3: 53).    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

The hall resounded with the sprightly violin and the martial hautbois.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of John Bull] Reference

Then it became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautbois.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference

Chap. It was introduced into England in 1629, and possessed a fame equal to the hautbois.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

It was they who gave us the dulcimer, the hautbois and the guitar; it was they who invented the serenade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

As is the custom on this day, after the devotions, the trumpets, hautbois, and drums made themselves heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois] Reference

His method of treating the organ is wonderful, and his idea of the ritournello Sur le Jeu de hautbois is charming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Memories]

"Very unlike indeed!" said Fleda, endeavouring to understand what Mr. Carleton was saying to her about wood strawberries and hautbois.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

After a fine symphony, a concerto for the violin, another for the hautbois, the Italian singer whose repute was so great and who was styled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

The service was the "Salut," and the Host was being elevated to the strains of "The Last Rose of Summer," on the hautbois stop of the organ.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference

This pyramid, then, with twenty or thirty porcelain dishes, was so completely upset at the door, that the noise it made put to silence the violins, hautbois, and trumpets.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference

After a fine symphony, a concerto for the violin, another for the hautbois, the Italian singer whose repute was so great and who was styled Madame Trend made her appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference

There was a concert; in the course of which a hautbois concerto was so charmingly played, that I could have thought myself upon enchanted ground, had I had spirits more gentle to associate with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference

He himself carried a lighted waxen taper, bareheaded, with very great reverence, having with him the band and hautbois with several clarions and trumpets, which made a glorious show, so melodiously did they play.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4] Reference

Scotch, while King Rene's trumpets, harps, and hautbois burst forth with an answering peal, so exciting her that her yellow-brown eyes sparkled and the colour rose in her cheeks, giving her a strange beauty full of eager spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference

But suppose he desires to "blow a dreamy hautbois note, slender and refined as ever stirred the air of Arcady or trembled in the vineyards of old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

Si les accents de son hautbois.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marie-Antoinette as a composer] Reference

Jouez hautbois, résonnez musettes !.    From Wordnik.com.  [Il est né le divin enfant] Reference

In like manner, I have always felt a disgust when Mr. So-and-so comes forward to make his sweet flute bleat and bray like a hautbois; it's forcing the poor thing to do what it was never made for. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference

I composed them at the time in which 'Patie Allan's mither died, about the back o' midnight, 'and by the lee side of a bowl of punch, which had overset every mortal in company, except the hautbois and the muse. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

The hautbois in the open air is heavenly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference

Tournez, tournez au sons de hautbois. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

Its name comes from the French word "hautbois" which means "high,".    From Wordnik.com.  [The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS] Reference

These bands included hautbois, cornets, trombones, violas de gamba, flutes, harps, lutes, flageolets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference