 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...butter ; and when the bell rang for music between the acts, the tears ran from the bassoon-players' eyes in such plentiful showers, that they choked the...and sighs of the groaning audience, and the noise of the corks drawn from the smelling bottles prevented the mistake between the flats and sharps being... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...in such plentiful showers, that they choaked the finger-stops, and making a spout of the instrumeut, poured in such torrents on the first fiddler's book,...leader of the band actually played in one flat. "But ihe sobs and sighs of the groaning audience, and the noise of corks drawn from the smelling-bottles,... | |
 | 1830 - 480 pages
...finger-stops, and, making a spout of the instrument, poured in such torrents on the fiddlers' hooks, that, not seeing the overture was in two sharps, the leader of the hand actually played in one flat ! But the sighs and sohs of the groaning audience, and the noise of... | |
 | Philobiblion - 1862 - 552 pages
...poured in Juch torrents on the firft fiddler's book, that, not feeing the overture was in two fharps, the leader of the band actually played in one flat. But the fobs and fighs of the groaning audience, and the noife of corks drav/n from the fmelling-bottles, prevented... | |
 | American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...they choked the finger-stops, and, making a spout of the instrument, poured in such a torrent upon the first fiddler's book that, not seeing the overture...two sharps, the leader of the band actually played it in two • flats ; but the sobs and sighs of the groaning audience, and the noise of the corks drawn... | |
 | John Diprose - Actors - 1877 - 308 pages
...finger-stops, and, making a spout of the instrument, poured in such torrents on the fiddler's books, that, not seeing the overture was in two sharps, the leader of the band actually played it in one flat ! But the sighs and sobs of the groaning audience, and the noise of the corks drawn... | |
 | Actors - 1878 - 244 pages
...that they choked the fingerstops, and, making a spout of the instrument, poured in such a torrent upon the first fiddler's book that, not seeing the overture...two sharps, the leader of the band actually played it in two flats ; but the sobs and sighs of the groaning audience, and the noise of the corks drawn... | |
 | Actors - 1878 - 234 pages
...that they choked the fingerstops, and, making a spout of the instrument, poured in such a torrent upon the first fiddler's book that, not seeing the overture...two sharps, the leader of the band actually played it in two flats; but the sobs and sighs of the groaning audience, and the noise of the corks drawn... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - Actors - 1879 - 338 pages
...fingerstops, and, making a spout of the instrument, poured in such a torrent upon the first tiddler's book, that not seeing the overture was in two sharps, the leader of the band actually played it in two flats ; but the sobs and sighs of the groaning audience, and the noise of the corks drawn... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1883 - 124 pages
...tears ran from the bassoon players' eyes in such plentiful showers that they choked the finger stops, and making a spout of the instrument poured in such...overture was in two sharps, the leader of the band played it in one flat. But the sobs and sighs of the groaning audience and the noise of corks drawn... | |
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... blubbered like hungry children crying for their bread and butter ; and when the bell rang for music between the acts, the tears ran from the... 
