Round and round the firelit room they circled with a rhythmic grace that was wonderful.
The breath of the young, unwearied day, the delicious rhythmic dip of the oars, the fragmentary song of a passing bird heard now and then, as if it were only the overflowing of brimful gladness, the sweet solitude of a twofold consciousness that was mingled into one by that grave, untiring gaze which need not be averted,—what else could there be in their minds for the first hour?
But presently the rhythmic movement of the oars attracted her, and she thought she should like to learn how to row.
She read so eagerly and constantly in her three books, the Bible, Thomas à Kempis, and the "Christian Year" (no longer rejected as a "hymn-book"), that they filled her mind with a continual stream of rhythmic memories; and she was too ardently learning to see all nature and life in the light of her new faith, to need any other material for her mind to work on, as she sat with her well-plied needle, making shirts and other complicated stitchings, falsely called "plain,"—by no means plain to Maggi
" "I suppose it is the fashion to sing comic songs in a rhythmic way, leaving you to fancy the tune—very much as if it were tapped on a drum?
Now, given that bonobos are closely related to humans, their rhythmic ability might not sound very surprising.
She suggested that ci should follow more melodic and rhythmic patterns, distinguishing itself with shi.
" Like Han Yu, Ouyang advocated a simpler, more direct prose to replace the mannered and excessively rhythmic style then popular, and his writings in the resultant guwen style established a model emulated thenceforth.
A zealous promoter of folk literature and art, he wrote a considerable number of rhythmic talks, mini-tales, and sketches.
The kinds of music that we were exposed to as infants and toddlers helped to create very specific mental patterns—schemata—of the most typical melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic progressions.
All you remember about your child being sixteen is loud music and undecipherable8 lyrics9 screamed to a rhythmic beat.
These are receptiveness - how you feel about the song - predictability, surprise, melodic potency - how good the 'hook' is - and rhythmic repetition.
The key takeaway, says Dr Watkins, is that it is possible to train the HRV to be more coherent using slow, rhythmic breaths.
I drink dew for wine, and hearken to The voices of the birds, and dance To the rhythmic swaying of the grass.
I went by the Druid stone That broods in the garden white and lone, And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows That at some moments fall thereon From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing, And they shaped in my imagining To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders Threw there when she was gardening.
Exercises that are continuous and rhythmic (rather than intermittent) are good choices.
The pleasant music from his lyre was so exciting that stones marched into their places in rhythmic time and of their own will when he helped Poseidonbuild up the walls of Troy.
I , II Steel chambers, late the pyres Of her salamandrine fires, Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
And following behind them Is a pearl-laden train, rhythmic with bearers.
Up and down they go, endlessly, and endless as their toil rises their rhythmic cry.
