I always played second fiddle to him.
Ethel would never make strawberry jam or dance to old Abel's fiddle or fry bacon for Barney over a camp-fire.
He generally brought his fiddle and played for them, to the delight of all except Banjo, who would go temporarily insane and retreat under Valancy's bed.
The floor was waxed, and Roaring Abel's fiddle, purring under his skilled touch, worked magic.
When Dad played his fiddle, the world became a bright star.
Fiddle with devices while watching TV with others Four in 10 (41%) adults think it's unacceptable to use a phone while curled up with the family on the sofa in front of TV.
" Then he took his fiddle from his back, and played so that it echoed through the trees.
"[The toys] went away when my older ones grew up, but now I get them out to spend time with them and fiddle about myself.
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This guy is amazing,' I said, pointing at my husband, who looked completely mortified and slipped away to fiddle with the music.
The University College London researchers are not sure why this is but say it is possible that we feel upset that are unable to control the urge to fiddle with our phone.
Women's football has played second fiddle to the more lucrative men's game but the bribery scandal surrounding FIFA has spurred interest in a section of the sport less drenched in money.
If you constantly fiddle with your mobile phone when you're communicating with your friends or families, the mobile phone will make dialogue delay to make others feel that you lack of sincerity and even likely to cause conflict.
But despite Claire being perhaps even more talented at manipulation than her husband, she's always played second fiddle to him.
A noo boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, he did, right alongside of John--stem to stem we was, all night.
" But instead of the fiddle he brought out the blanket.
Well, then, if it is to be so, I wish, first, for a gun, which shall hit everything that I aim at; secondly, for a fiddle, which when I play on it, shall compel all who hear it to dance; thirdly, that if I ask a favor of any one he shall not be able to refuse it.
The woman had already had nearly everything killed that was in the farmyard, and had made pancakes, and the parson was there, and had brought his fiddle with him.
" Then he took his fiddle from his back, and played so that it echoed through the trees.
When the bear heard the music, he could not help beginning to dance, and when he had danced a while, the thing pleased him so well that he said to the little tailor, "Listen, is it difficult to fiddle?
