Tunes
[tju:nz]
Examples
- She sometimes played tunes upon them with her fingers--minuets and marches I should think--but never moved them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In that case the operator tunes his instrument, or in other words adjusts his apparatus to suit the wave length of the station with which he wishes to communicate. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Insolvency, at all tunes the natural result of a spirited foreign policy, was close at hand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some good rousing tunes firSt. Rosamond played admirably. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had heard fragments of tunes and songs in the warm wind, which he knew had no existence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was experimenting in tunes to suit some words of his own, sometimes trying a ready-made melody, sometimes improvising. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We never have tunes here. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In this way he tunes out the other messages, and receives only the one he wants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I stick to the good old tunes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Oh, father knows plenty of old tunes, and I am so fond of them. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- George didn't know the tunes, either, which was also a drawback to his performances. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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