It was pleasant, too, when Stephen and Lucy were gone out riding, to sit down at the piano alone, and find that the old fitness between her fingers and the keys remained, and revived, like a sympathetic kinship not to be worn out by separation; to get the tunes she had heard the evening before, and repeat them again and again until she had found out a way of producing them so as to make them a more pregnant, passionate language to her.
" "You would have laughed to see me playing the little girls' tunes over and over to them, when I took them to practise," said Maggie, "just for the sake of fingering the dear keys again.
Tom ran in to Philip, who was enjoying his afternoon's holiday at the piano, in the drawing-room, picking out tunes for himself and singing them.
" Lucy thought it was by reason of some exceptional talent in uncle Pullet that the snuff-box played such beautiful tunes, and indeed the thing was viewed in that light by the majority of his neighbours in Garum.
—devout epigrams—the sacred chime of favorite hymns—all alike were as flat as tunes beaten on wood: even the spring flowers and the grass had a dull shiver in them under the afternoon clouds that hid the sun fitfully; even the sustaining thoughts which had become habits seemed to have in them the weariness of long future days in which she would still live with them for her sole companions.
He was experimenting in tunes to suit some words of his own, sometimes trying a ready-made melody, sometimes improvising.
"Some good rousing tunes first.
I stick to the good old tunes.
The young man had a concertina, and he played the tunes popular on the music-halls a dozen years before.
Next comes Nibs, the gay and debonair, followed by Slightly, who cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to his own tunes.
" All those two days and a half that the Doctor stayed at the little fishing-town the people kept asking him out to teas and luncheons and dinners and parties; all the ladies sent him boxes of flowers and candies; and the village-band played tunes under his window every night.
This repetition pep talks and thoughts fine tunes the performance of brain.
And it seemed the fans - who call themselves Swifties - were having the time of their lives getting soaked and enjoying their idol's tunes at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford.
They each spent five minutes in a waiting room while one of two carefully selected tunes played in the background.
Givens' redesign became the first official design for the lead character of the Looney Tunes franchise, making him a famous name in the industry.
And you do not need to dance through the streets singing show tunes and sprinkling glitter.
Mr Lazaridis and his co-chief executive Jim Balsillie believed the hype and would enter the stage at trade shows to the blaring tunes of the Black Eyed Peas, something unthinkable when it was solely focused on its core market of business users.
Reading expands your life perspective and fine tunes your life filter.
But what are the most difficult tunes to shift - and why do they get stuck in the first place?
This repetition pep talks and thoughts fine tunes the performance of brain.