Musician

Examples

• But he would claim to exceed the non-musician? Plato. The Republic.
• He was a good musician, a skilful draughtsman and painter, something of a poet, and had shown considerable talent in designing and building a variety of toy machines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Laurie comes naturally by his love of music, for he is like his mother, and I dare say his grandfather fears that he may want to be a musician. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Very good, Thrasymachus, I said; and now to take the case of the arts: you would admit that one man is a musician and another not a musician? Plato. The Republic.
• Clearly the musician is wise, and he who is not a musician is foolish. Plato. The Republic.
• He was a brilliant musician; he talked several languages, and seemed to have been all over the world; but beyond this he was a mystery. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• One woman has a gift of healing, another not; one is a musician, and another has no music in her nature? Plato. The Republic.
• Varying pitches are obtained partly by the varying wind pressure of the musician; if he breathes fast, the pitch rises; if he breathes slowly, the pitch falls. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I'm to be a famous musician myself, and all creation is to rush to hear me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fastidious judgment, no musician, either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Miss Vincy is a musician? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But can the musician by his art make men unmusical? Plato. The Republic.
• My father came to be a military musician there from abroad. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The musicians put their ears in the place of their minds. Plato. The Republic.
• Ere long, some noted singers and musicians dawned upon the platform: as these stars rose, the comet-like professor set. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then our regimental fund had run down and some of the musicians in the band had been without their extra pay for a number of months. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were two centuries each of mechanics and musicians, and the _proletarii_ made up one century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the parson's croft, behind the rectory, are the musicians of the three parish bands, with their instruments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Other men, I observed, may be better musicians. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The musicians were securely confined in an elevated den, and quadrilles were being systematically got through by two or three sets of dancers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Darius, for instance, was accompanied by his harem, and there was a great multitude of harem slaves, musicians, dancers, and cooks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There are hardly any good musicians. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was authority of law for enlisting a certain number of men as musicians. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But I was really thinking of dramatic artists, singers, actors, musicians. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Behind the musicians came lads garlanded with wreaths of intermingled violets and ivy, bearing thyrsi. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There was a rude kind of music, part of the time, but the musicians were not visible. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Poets and musicians use either, or a compound of both, and this compound is very attractive to youth and their teachers as well as to the vulgar. Plato. The Republic.

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