"Tuneful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tuneful companions who had less vital power have lain like some ancient cemetery or buried city, in which antiquaries have been for a long age digging and searching for some ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton
... airs to sing, Forward then I roamed afar, Sweeping still the tuneful string— Having hope ...
— The Youth's Coronal • Hannah Flagg Gould
... was with increasing pleasure that she learnt they had so many tastes in common. She found that he played the violin well and was, moreover, the possessor of a voice tuneful and sympathetic, even if not perfectly trained. This made instant appeal to her and would have disposed her to regard him with favour even if she had not been already ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly
... decked the leafy bowers, And pranked the russet plain, She bore his cage where breathing flowers Inspired a tuneful strain; ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 • Various
... pinnacles of the Certosa leap like flames into the sky. The rice-fields are under water, far and wide, shining like burnished gold beneath the level light now near to sun-down. Frogs are croaking; those persistent frogs, whom the Muses have ordained to sing for aye, in spite of Bion and all tuneful poets dead. We sit and watch the water-snakes, the busy rats, the hundred creatures swarming in the fat well-watered soil. Nightingales here and there, new-comers, tune their timid April song: but, strangest of all sounds in such a place, my comrade from the Grisons jodels forth an ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
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