While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so
musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Thus we were weaving and weaving away when I started at a sound so strange, long drawn, and
musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand, and I stood gazing up at the clouds whence that voice dropped like a wing.
The fire crackled
musically. From it swelled light smoke.
And they sang it again, and Mary and Colin lifted their voices as
musically as they could and Dickon's swelled quite loud and beautiful--and at the second line Ben Weatherstaff raspingly cleared his throat and at the third line he joined in with such vigor that it seemed almost savage and when the "Amen" came to an end Mary observed that the very same thing had happened to him which had happened when he found out that Colin was not a cripple--his chin was twitching and he was staring and winking and his leathery old cheeks were wet.
The frozen particles of ice, brushed from the blades of grass by the wind, and borne across my face; the hard clatter of the horse's hoofs, beating a tune upon the ground; the stiff-tilled soil; the snowdrift, lightly eddying in the chalk-pit as the breeze ruffled it; the smoking team with the waggon of old hay, stopping to breathe on the hill-top, and shaking their bells
musically; the whitened slopes and sweeps of Down-land lying against the dark sky, as if they were drawn on a huge slate!
Porthos was snoring most
musically when some one touched him on the shoulder.
She was talking rapidly,
musically, and with exceptionally correct articulation and expressive intonation.
The rich foliage of the trees, the luxuriant grass diversified with wild flowers, the little green islands in the river, the beds of rushes, the water-lilies floating on the surface of the stream, the distant voices in boats borne
musically towards him on the ripple of the water and the evening air, were all expressive of rest.
"A prince!" she cried
musically. "What more do you want?"
"They sang these words most
musically, and as I longed to hear them further I made signs by frowning to my men that they should set me free; but they quickened their stroke, and Eurylochus and Perimedes bound me with still stronger bonds till we had got out of hearing of the Sirens' voices.
Still she sang gayly on, and the falling drops kept time so
musically, that the King in his cold ice-halls wondered at the low, sweet sounds that came stealing up to him.
Smangle a gentle intimation, through the medium of the water-jug, that his audience was not
musically disposed.