I likewise can call the lutist and the singer; but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to - morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia] Reference
Despite the lutist Zubaydah being carried off by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The kid boggled, “So if I dig up a lutist, and eat a piece before a gig, I will thra-a-sh!”. From Wordnik.com. [An Heroic Tale in an Enormous Tomb « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Zubaydah53 the lutist, an only child who is a model of beauty and loveliness, so I married her to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
And for good measure, Anzellotti threw in a 17th-century work by Froberger recounting a fatal fall by an amateur lutist acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [Daddy never sleeps at night] Reference
But Sting says the melodies and words of Elizabethan composer and lutist John Dowland (1563-1626) have been "gently haunting me" for more than two decades. From Wordnik.com. [Songs From The Labyrinth] Reference
Ala al-Din and his wife Zubaydah, the lutist, saying, “I conjure thee by the virtue of the names and talismans and characts engraver on this jewel, rise up with us, O Couch!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
He wasn't playing the same tune as the lutist — or any tune at all, it seemed to Cashel — but despite that, the instruments managed to create between them a melody that suited the sea very well. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Moreover, O my son, it hath reached me that they have married thee, by way of intermediary, to the lady Zubaydah the lutist and they have imposed on thee a marriage-settlement of ten thousand dinars; wherefore I send thee also fifty thousand dinars by the slave Salím. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It is always possible to assume that under - lying the temporally indivisible events of microphysics there is the mathematical, infinitely divisible duration of Newton and Locke; but this view implies the abso - lutist distinction between homogeneous container-like time and its concrete physical content, which the pres - ent trends in physics make improbable. From Wordnik.com. [TIME] Reference
As a youth he became an excellent lutist, then thought of devoting himself to painting, but when he was seventeen studied medicine, and at the. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
Zubaydah, the lutist, saying, "I conjure thee by the virtue of the names and talismans and characts engraver on this jewel, rise up with us, O Couch!". From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Mattheson, who wrote in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the lute was still cultivated, said that a lutist of eighty years must have spent nearly sixty in tuning his instrument. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
Thus the circle of performers was completed with, among others, Cachaíto López on bass, Compay Segundó and Eliades Ochoá on guitar, lutist Barbarito Torres and the singers Omara Portuondó and Ibrahim Ferrer. From Wordnik.com. [XpatLoop.com - Budapest Sun Archive Channel RSS Feed] Reference
The show opened with part concert, part demonstration courtesy of percussionist Jamey Haddad, who brought along fellow percussionist Dylan Moffat and violinist/lutist Simon Shaheen to perform some selections of North African/Arabic music. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Moreover, O my son, it hath reached me that they have married thee, by way of intermediary, to the lady Zubaydah the lutist and they have imposed on thee a marriage-settlement of ten thousand dinars; wherefore I send thee also fifty thousand dinars by the slave. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The first half of the book is devoted to the almost completely unconvincing account of Toby's development as a lutist and killer-for-hire, then the narrative makes an abrupt turn into a very earnest account of medieval anti-Semitism, a fact-based tale that does pack some real emotional power. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
"My lutist shall sing you something, -- in English, of course!. From Wordnik.com. [Ziska] Reference
Ja’afar bin Musá al-Hádi133 once had a slave-girl, a lutist, called Al – Badr al-Kabír, than whom there was not in her time. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Know everything lutist ever knew. From Wordnik.com. [An Heroic Tale in an Enormous Tomb « A Fly in Amber] Reference
The lutist is especially fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
(See St. Patrick.) ORPHEUS, lutist. From Wordnik.com. [Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be.] Reference
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