| 单词 | castanets |
| 例句 | I secretly bought a pair of castanets and taught myself at least to emulate some of the sounds I heard from above. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Our teacher, Mercedes Garcia, was a bosomy woman with jackhammer feet who taught us how to drop our heels in time to her claps and castanets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The women began a dance in which the roses were held in their mouths, and their castanets clacked a merciless thank you to the men. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He cleared the crud from his vision just in time to see the boy run off, the rattraps clattering like castanets on the toes of his shoes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The term ‘chaconne’ may come from the sound of the Mexican castanets used to accompany the dance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They heard strange music as they drew near the shack, like somebody playing a rubber band while clacking castanets. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Taylor clicked her fingers like castanets and the others followed till it sounded like Cinco de Mayo night at the senior home. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Chirping away, he sounded like a pair of lively castanets. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few of the sketches, I paint Abuela Celia just the way she wants—dancing flamenco with whirling red skirts and castanets and a tight satin bodice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She did flamenco dancing, and we could hear her heels pounding on the ceiling and the distinct clicking of castanets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z With the tip of her painted fingernail, the dancer salesgirl showed the miniature castanets the doll was holding. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Six señoritas in long, fitted dresses with flaring skirts and castanets in their hands flounced onto the stage. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Stargirl was doing her best imitation of a flamenco; the click of castanets came through the windowpane. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He clacked as he walked, rattling like a pair of castanets, and since he had no teeth he was forced to eat baby food. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The first movement of Debussy’s “Ibéria” featured castanets and some Spanish flavor, with the mood remaining on the sedate side throughout the first half. BSO at Strathmore skips the uncommon music in season preview 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Dressed casually in black like the rest of the band, he played the castanets in “Serenade,” joining a guitarist and percussionist for Lou Harrison’s Serenade for Guitar. Mark Morris Dance Group delivers an early spring 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Matteo also wrote a highly praised text, “The Language of Spanish Dance: A Dictionary and Reference Manual,” as well as “Woods That Dance,” a book about castanets for which he devised a notation system. Matteo, Master of Spanish Dance, Dies at 92 2011-03-29T00:56:33Z The polyphonic motets gaze back towards the great Spanish choral tradition, but are accompanied by the throb of guitars and the clash of castanets. Fiesta Criolla/From Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro 2010-08-20T13:50:00Z A clinking soundscape, like the product of faulty castanets, arose from the act of stirring, along with a slow, writhing dance. Review: ‘The Return of La Argentina,’ a Solo Dance Fed by Chips and Pistachios 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z On it were rigged garbage-can lids, circular sawblades, dryer exhaust vents and other household items, along with more conventional percussion such as timpani, xylophones, tambourines and castanets. Trimpin book salutes artist's contraptions, sound 2011-06-15T21:50:04Z The castanets clacking in Morse code the fascist order to assassinate Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. Trimpin's 'Gurs' is a mechanical marvel as well as a haunting elegy 2012-05-18T19:22:03Z Fun saxophone solos are complemented by traces of castanets and snare drum. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It may be that “chac” indicated the sound of the castanets that egged it on. Music Review: ‘The Art and Ecstasy of the Chaconne,’ at Ethical Culture 2012-10-05T22:24:13Z Schumann and Wolf, who infused his Germanic ethos with evocations of strummed guitars and castanets, were among the German Romantic composers entranced by Spanish poetry. Review: New York Festival of Song’s ‘Letters From Spain,’ Some by Russians and Germans 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In the first, Ms. Rodríguez, who choreographed most of the program, wielded castanets like weapons, backed by her dancers, who were equally adroit with those instruments. Review: Irene Rodríguez Compañía Offers Flamenco With Flirtation 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z As the two stars collapse with laughter, I have visions of a sumptuous drag version of Bizet's opera, with Scholl and Jaroussky playing castanets and strutting about in flamenco dresses and fishnets. Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky: pushing the envelope for countertenors 2010-12-06T21:31:00Z “We danced a jota — that was a country dance. And we played castanets. My mom let me put on lipstick — I was so thrilled.” Rita Moreno: Pathbreaker, Activist and ‘A Kick in the Pants’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z One evening we came upon a costumed crowd: women with castanets wore 19th-century dresses with white, billowing shirts and long, wide skirts; the men wore knickers. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z You imagined a chorus of guitars and castanets in the wings. Joining the Caravan: The Gypsy Aesthetic Gains in Popularity on Runways and Streets 2012-07-11T21:27:14Z Most are familiar: spring, castanets, ratchet, whip, sleigh bells, celesta. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z There are all kinds of stylized Spanish dance here, some with castanets and some with fans. Bolshoi Ballet Performs ‘Don Quixote’ With a Smile 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z There’s a percussion number with stirrers and glasses, and tongs used as castanets. 6 Immersive Theater Shows to See in New York 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The ensemble dances are colourfully extrovert and musically drilled, and the collective flourishing of cloaks, castanets and fans a star turn in itself. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Don Quixote – review 2013-04-01T12:11:43Z Different percussion instruments — a gong, drums, castanets — accompany the music’s five sections and are answered onstage by different props for the dancer: hand bells, a long cylinder, a fan. Mark Morris and Lou Harrison, a Large-Spirited Partnership 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian I am in a room with five adolescent boys who are making a right old racket on an array of drums, xylophones, maracas and castanets. How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z It is largely a matter of instrumental and vocal colour: everything from Ensemble Elyma's fiesta of castanets, tambourines and guitars to the four-voice austerity of Ensemble Le Sans-Pareil's musical journey from Lisbon to Rio. Latin American Vespers 2010-08-24T15:08:00Z While their rhythmically drumming heels and purring castanets competed with the sounds of the BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena, their choreography peppered the rigorous discipline of Spanish classical dance with an unfettered physicality. Prom 17: BBC Philharmonic/Mena – review 2013-07-26T16:24:10Z In the tango that followed, what was previously implied in rhythm became literal in exotic-Spain castanets, and the closing tarantella took itself too seriously. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z She also learned to play the castanets and to perform flamenco dances. Magdalena Ko?en?: 'I'm not scared of the big maestro' 2012-05-16T18:00:01Z Those castanets sounded again in “The Art and Ecstasy of the Chaconne,” a concert on Thursday evening at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Music Review: ‘The Art and Ecstasy of the Chaconne,’ at Ethical Culture 2012-10-05T22:24:13Z And the pain of that circling heats her subsequent duet with the singer Emilio Florido; she takes his castanets, and probably his heart and pride, too. Review: A Guitarist Rejects Her. But She Knows How to Be Cruel. 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The museum has also brought out ballerinas’ makeup tubes, castanets and satiny shoes, as well as paperwork that survived the Ballets Russes archival diaspora. Antiques: A Ballet?s Costumes Take Center Stage 2010-09-23T21:11:00Z His tempo-setting finger snap makes it sound as though he's had castanets surgically implanted at the base of his thumb — and amplified. PNB's 'All Premiere': 4 new works, including 1 by Mark Morris 2012-10-24T20:52:05Z She still has her wooden castanets from about 80 years ago and can still, just about, raise her leg to her head. Ballet Rambert's Sara Luzita, 100, still dancing at Ely care home 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z All castanets and flamenco skirts, this is a big, ballsy cabaret number about love driving you crazy. Eurovision 2023: Every song ranked, from Albania to the UK 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z She dressed in an elaborate cloak, wielded a guitar and castanets and, when it was her turn to step into the center of the group and dance, did her best to master complex choreography. LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, instigators and power players breaking through barriers 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Jokes aside, those early experiences of singing, dancing and playing guitar and castanets were formative. Meet Lina González-Granados, L.A. Opera's new resident conductor 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z A firm drumbeat and dramatic flourishes — castanets, chimes, maracas — added to the grandeur. Phil Spector, record producer and convicted killer dead at 81 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z Rachel Peacock said it "brought a lump to my throat" when the castanets were put in Sara's hand and she started playing them along to the flamenco music. Ballet Rambert's Sara Luzita, 100, still dancing at Ely care home 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z She claps her hands and the rings on her fingers clack like castanets. “Philosophy of the Foot” 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z As she bats her spoons, they snap at each other like castanets; she isn’t controlling the tempo but weaving in and out of the vocal melody. The song of the spoon lady: Pain, perseverance and an unlikely journey to viral fame 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Hayworth pursued her passions for oil painting, playing the castanets and golfing. Rita Hayworth’s daughter describes late movie star’s devastating battle with Alzheimer’s: ‘It was very painful’ 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z The most unusual performer of the three — Lucero Tena, 80, a Mexican/Spanish dancer who became a virtuoso of the castanets — was also the most wildly acclaimed by the crowd. Review: Plácido Domingo brings the music of Spain to Hollywood 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Dancers occasionally are sidelined to let the music speak for itself, although they are enlisted to keep up the clapping and provide the percussion, sometimes using castanets, as well. Flamenco dancer resurrects colorful dance for audiences 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z On cold nights, when they slept in the same bag, they fit no problem, and when they jammed against each other for comfort their hips clacked like castanets. “Herman Melville, Volume I” 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z “Vision of Spain” captures bullfighters, fishermen and dancers; 230 linear square feet of paintings hang at eye level, surrounding you; you can almost smell the fish and hear the castanets. Finding Washington Heights 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z “I would ride the golf cart with her because she was golfer. And at home, she would put on music and play the castanets. … I had a wonderful childhood.” Rita Hayworth’s daughter describes late movie star’s devastating battle with Alzheimer’s: ‘It was very painful’ 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z They sing, breaking off for whirling dance routines, and are accompanied by hand drums and deafening metal castanets. The musicians fighting back against extremism - BBC News 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Instead of using your thumbs to tap the screen, you click them against your forefingers like tiny castanets. Pinc is a whimsical VR iPhone case that tracks your hands 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Now, with more than 50 years experience, Juan is almost unique in making castanets in the traditional way. Last of the castanet makers? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The scollop and oyster Their two shells did roister, Like castanets fitting; While limpets moved clearly, And rocks very nearly With laughter were splitting. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z Soon to the sound of castanets they wriggled their bodies in a way that was not so much suggestive of dancing as of flea-bites. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Above the castanets of hansoms and the horns of motors the omnibuses rolled like drums ... the hansoms were going back, back, the motors were going forward; but the omnibuses were going home, home, home. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Then, as the music quickens and castanets click out, the boys grow animated, and move swifter to and fro, raising their arms in curves and graceful interlacing rounds. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z It had in it a little round uncovered table, a tambourine, a violin, an accordion, castanets, and one or two cushions. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Twice the music stopped, and for a few seconds the lads moved slowly to the sound of their own castanets. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Gerald made a hurried move, the piece rattling upon the board as if he had been playing the castanets. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z The young men spring to their places, rattling castanets or imitating their sound by snapping their fingers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z It's all violent, without a dream of a nuance or a hint of "distinction"; all prose trumpets and castanets and such—with never a touch of the fiddle-string or a note of the nightingale. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Even my faithless comrade, draped in her flower-garden shawl, practised the steps of a seguidilla to the rattle of the castanets and laughed at my defeats. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Fandango, fan-dan′go, n. an old Spanish dance for two, in � time, with castanets, proceeding gradually from a slow and uniform to the liveliest motion: a gathering for dancing, a ball. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Presently this Andalusian Papagena lifts her arms, and the sharp, merry crack of the castanets is heard. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Spangles glitter; the sharp clank of ivory and ebony castanets beats out the cadence of strange, throbbing, deepening notes—assonances unknown to music, but curiously characteristic, effective and intoxicating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Look at that shot silk, green and purple; and whom do you take that to be a portrait of, that lady with the castanets?” Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The tassels of curly ribbon, tinted to match the dainty touches of color in their costumes, seem to droop in exhaustion from the tossing castanets. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Above were growing pearly pease, and beans of many kinds With pods like tiny castanets to mock the summer winds. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z This he would carry by the tail to his sleeping pets, arouse them by dangling it against their heads, at which, while half asleep, they would click their beaks like castanets. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Seldom does one see girl-faces so full of fun and so supremely happy, as they adjust the castanets, and one damsel steps aside to whisper something sly to a sister or friend. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The boys accompany the minuet-like movements with the clinking of castanets. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z Then they were the castanets of a sinister dance. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z It was a rotten way of ending a startlingly successful, though not much blazoned career, decided Helston Varne, sitting there in the inky blackness, his teeth now chattering like the proverbial castanets. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Together with priestesses, they celebrated her rites with flutes, horns, castanets, cymbals and tambourines, madly yelling and dancing until their frenzied excitement found its culmination in self-scourging, self-laceration or exhaustion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z They have likewise another kind of music, which they make use of in dancing, in the manner of castanets. The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island 2011-11-15T03:00:19.650Z They dance to the castanets, and win handclaps from grandfathers and grandmothers, who recall their own dancing days of forty or fifty years ago. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Recognising me as a stranger, she stopped just in front of me, struck her castanets and danced, at the same time directing the movements of her companions, who formed a circle around me. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Light streamed from open doorways, the wail of lyres and the jingle of castanets resounded within and without. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Players and riders,—men and women,—clothed in gay raiments, rendered brilliant with spangles, paced backwards and forwards along their platforms to the sound of drums, organs, and Pandean pipes, cymbals, tambourines, and castanets. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z Josie shook the castanets, Stacy beat the drum, Will ground the organ and sang, while they all danced like street Arabs. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z The old folk sit around on chairs; someone clicks a pair of castanets, and a graceful girl begins to dance. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z And again the Spirits repeated their rune, and their voices were like the clicking of castanets. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z The tall palms clicked faintly in the breeze with a sound like distant castanets. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z Everything is still most primitive.—Nevertheless he enjoyed the pamperruque which was danced before the ch�teau by seven men and ten maidens, gaily dressed—the women armed with tambourines and the men with castanets. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z I am Malek-al-Chiras of Granada, professor of castanets in the two Spains, and come to France with my sister, Salamalech, to dance the bolero before Cardinal Richelieu. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z On every evening in summer, the inhabitants dance in their patios to the guitar and castanets, while the street lads perform their Oriental antics in the plazas and bye-streets. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The Lion skipped right round the parlour three times, snapping his claws like castanets. The World Turned Upside Down 2011-09-14T02:00:49.820Z Outside one open window the merry crickets were playing castanets in those dreadful trees. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z It consists of penny whistles, banjos, castanets, soup-bowls, knives and forks, and anything else within reach. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z I shall say that we are Moors from Spain, that we have come from Granada to give lessons in castanets. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Their shapely, lissome feet skim and bound in bewildering and intricate steps, to the clicking of ribbon-decked castanets. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z It was fortunate that she always gave warning of her proximity by making the noise of castanets with her tusks, so that we had time to get elevated before she arrived. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z For a few minutes the pile resembled a struggling mass of dogs, and the air seemed filled with flying hair, fur and foam, and the snapping of teeth was like castanets. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z With cymbals and rattle of castanets, And shriek of slug-horns, the North Wind Bows the oak and the moaning fir, On russet hills and by roadsides stiff with rime. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z "When monseigneur is here the house is full of ladies and gentlemen," answered the host; who believed that the brother and sister had come to play their castanets before the marquis. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z The cup rattled like castanets upon the saucer. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z I gasped, my teeth chattering in my head like a pair of castanets. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z "Oh, Hope, Hope, this is beautiful, beautiful!" and Kate began to dance wildly around the room, thrumming an imaginary pair of castanets as she danced. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z What an infamous idea, to imagine that a priest of Isis and Cybele, by playing cymbals and castanets, will reconcile you to the Divinity. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z There the fandango was danced on the velvet turf, while clattering castanets kept time. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z Again he follows a Spanish dancer with castanets and seems to depend upon nothing more than the easy laugh accorded to the imitator, but as he goes on it isn't just a burlesque. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z "It is clear that Real Madrid are behind the doping accusations against Barcelona," he snapped, clacking on some castanets for added emphasis. The Fiver 2011-03-22T16:30:41Z I shook like an aspen, and my teeth for a time chattered like castanets. The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, 2011-01-17T03:00:42.913Z He thought the moment of his arrest had come, and his knees seemed to take on a desire to figure as castanets. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z Multitiered skirts whirled as their wearers spun, arms aloft and castanets clacking. | New Jersey: Spanish Dance Theater Is Awhirl in Drama and Color 2010-12-19T00:53:50Z You have deprived the poor of these things, and have plunged them into idle talk, gossip, songs, castanets, pipings, and trifling. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII At the first vehement notes of the tambourine the girl began the dance; Lalla stood near he old woman and clattered the castanets. Four Phases of Love The tall chimney clusters were black against the sky, and beneath them and about the overgrown porch the ivy leaves clattered bonely like fairy castanets. Deep Moat Grange Seville with her guitars and lemon-trees, her castanets and oranges and fans, her fountains and carnations and flashing Andalusians, was for him the city to which one day he would return and dream. Sinister Street, vol. 2 It was exhilarating to follow her over the wooden road that answered to his footsteps like castanets, and as he caught up with her to fondle her bent arm. Sinister Street, vol. 1 When they shook the Greek tambourine or the Asiatic castanets, in the licentious mazes of the bacchanalian dance, they were generally irresistible to the German barons, but were extremely offensive to serious people. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. He cast a wild glance behind, and squeaked again, and his teeth began to go like castanets, as the hot breath of the thing fanned his back. The Night Operator They were some distance off, but their short wings seemed to clack like Spanish castanets and their long legs looked like dangling bits of string. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series It seems to me nothing but a series of chicks, as though they were rattling castanets with their tongues.” Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa An instance of the use of castanets in opera occurs in the Habanera in Carmen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Afterward the dance was changed to a Spanish one, in which, instead of castanets, the dancers from time to time snapped their fingers. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. Perhaps I am playing it at the last gasp of fright—my poor knees clapping like castanets...... Where the Pavement Ends Just then a mighty rolling peal of thunder shook the house, making the doors and windows rattle like castanets. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Then he commenced to shiver, till his teeth rattled together like castanets. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War When intended for use in the orchestra the pair of castanets is mounted one at each end of a wooden stick about 8 in. long, which facilitates the playing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Her eyes started from the sockets, and the weird and barbaric amulets hung about her person rattled like castanets. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War The great edifice with all the ceremonial of its religious services is woven into their life, as is the sound of the guitars and castanets that echo within its portals and courtyards. Cathedrals of Spain She stamped her foot now, and the castanets were sharp, exasperated. The Bright Shawl When the march finished, Isabel, who wore a half-mask of black satin, and her hair in two long braids plaited with gold tinsel, danced a Spanish dance by herself, alternating tambourine and castanets. Ancestors A Novel Three of the women, squatting on the floor, began to fillip their castanets with lively clacking, while another beat with her hands on a globe-bottomed timbrel tucked under her left arm. Sónnica By-and-by when eye and ear are attuned, you will see the light reflected from the pine needles glistening like metal, and hear the click of the same needles like fairy castanets of joy. Through Our Unknown Southwest Through the exits whiffs of garlic filtered from the kitchens below, and with them, from the exterior arcades, came the beat of timbrels, the click of castanets. Mary Magdalen La Clavel was indolent; she tapped a heel and sounded her castanets experimentally; a reminiscent smile hovered on the sombre beauty of her face. The Bright Shawl Though no longer believing themselves observed, they proceeded silently and with caution,—the only noise made among them being the chattering of their teeth, which were going like three complete sets of castanets. The Boy Slaves Tired of this, Mac put on a pair of castanets and danced a Spanish fandango. Aliens The walls shook with a dull vibration, and the window-panes were like castanets. The House by the Lock They were popular, with a vengeance—for every little street arab had beef bones for castanets, and every new song was roared out in the streets until it nauseated. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign Through the music Charles could hear the stamp of her heels, the augmented shrilling of the castanets. The Bright Shawl Malague�a Spanish 3/8 In couplet form A dance of moderate movement, accompanied by guitar and castanets; languorous and sensual in mood. Music: An Art and a Language "Nothing of the sort!" said a voice like the click of castanets; and here was Mrs. Tree again, pelisse, hat, stick, and all. Mrs. Tree The young girls in their silken bodices, short skirts, red stockings and mantillas, rattled their castanets as they entered with their partners. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The canoe was fitted with sumptuous cushions, upon which the monarch took his siestas, to the music made by dancing maidens with bells and castanets. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew La Clavel secured the castanets lying on her dressing-table—in answer to their irritable rhythmic clinking she projected, for an instant, a vision of all desire. The Bright Shawl But it is the snake––the one you say has the castanets in the tail, and it has put the poison in the foot of your horse!” The Flute of the Gods Then came the sharp and yet mellow clack of the dancers' castanets, and finally the soft tones of the flute, blending the whole into harmony. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Then swirled near a band of gypsies and moors, with guitars, tambourines, mandolins and castanets, led by Bizet; Africa seemed familiar land. Melomaniacs The watching coyotes sat down or walked around, barking, yelping, howling, snapping their teeth like castanets, sure of a feast to come and hungrily impatient for its beginning. Two Arrows A Story of Red and White "Si, se�or, si," whispered Tormillo, and his teeth clattered like castanets. The Spanish Jade Like rattle chill Of teeth, her castanets she smote Full in their faces awed and still. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems At the same moment, a guitar and castanets were heard in the adjoining room, accompanying the song. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Then he went into the cabin and slipped another bag over the head of the unsuspecting Bones, who fluffed all his feathers and snapped his fierce beak like castanets. The Backwoodsmen I believe the Bumble’s got some castanets and things put away that we could borrow.” The Madcap of the School Now and again Manvers heard the throb of a guitar, now and again, with sudden clamour, the clack of castanets. The Spanish Jade There, in the dingy inn, she begins a wonderful dance, shaking her castanets and making herself very beautiful and fascinating once more to Jos�. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces The little clicking castanets that rang out so sharply were in her hand beyond a doubt. The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. “It’s less work to go ahead than to turn back, now,” broke in Joe, his teeth accompanying his words with the clatter of castanets. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise There could, of course, be no piano accompaniment, but the girls 250 made up for it by a liberal clashing of cymbals, rattling of castanets, and jingling of tambourines. The Madcap of the School In a moment Flora had retired within the caravan, and emerged again with a pair of castanets in her hands. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama The scollop and oyster Their two shells did roister, Like castanets flitting; While limpets moved clearly, And rocks very nearly With laughter were splitting. The Lilac Fairy Book “Good Gorramity!” he exclaimed, his teeth chattering like castanets, as the words passed between them. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea As it went off, he was surprised at a singular noise which it made in running, not unlike the rattling of two pieces of loose bone knocked sharply together; in fact, a pair of castanets. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains There was a still more musical clause that I cannot put into syllables, then a rattle exactly like castanets, and lastly a sort of "Kr-r-r! kr-r-r!" in the tone of a great-crested flycatcher. A Bird-Lover in the West On our way back we again pass through the slave market, where a bevy of dancing-girls with tambourines and castanets look wistfully at us, hoping for an audience. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The women crowded up against the men, seeking comfort by physical contact with them, their teeth chattering like castanets. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Now a herd of brown goats came, the offering of a pious Phocian; now a band of Aphrodite’s priestesses from Corinth whirled by in no overdecorous dance, to a deafening noise of citharas and castanets. A Victor of Salamis A man seated on a broken chair was twanging a guitar, the surrounders beat their hands in time and the dancers made music with their castanets. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia The flute, the tambourine, and the castanets continued playing, the dancers sprang, the girls turned, but a gleam of alarm shone in the eyes of all, an expression of defensive solidarity. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan They tramped along the board-walk, with heels clicking like castanets, conscious that the world was hushed in night's old enchantment. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life What a contrast to the dull earthy-hued little hen, for whose slightest favour he neglects food to raise his Argus-eyed fan, clattering his quill castanets and screaming challenges to his rivals! The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Songs and castanets are heard; youths and girls mingle in the dance under the blossoming acacias; whilst beggars sit upon the sculptured blocks of marble, and refresh themselves with the juicy water-melon. The Sand-Hills of Jutland The boys ceased to sing, but continued the dance, marking the time now with castanets, and the mundane instrument contrasted strangely with the glittering altar and with the kneeling priests. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia The drum continued beating, the flute shrilled, the enormous castanets clanked, but not a couple sprang into the center of the plaza. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The orchestra tinkled all kinds of drums, castanets, bells, fiddles; many of them having strange shapes and shrill noises. Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines Merely to play the castanets requires a severe tutelage. The Merry-Go-Round Don's teeth were chattering like castanets, for the night had grown cooler and a little breeze was blowing from the west, and his clothing was still far from dry. Left Guard Gilbert Yet the dances are still Spanish; and even if the pianoforte has ousted the guitar, the castanets give, notwithstanding, a characteristic note which the aggressive muslin and the pink, ill-fitting tights cannot entirely destroy. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia The Little Chaplain was flipping castanets as enormous as the shells brought in by T�o Ventolera. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan They whirled about; they executed steps; they snapped castanets. Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines Sometimes castanets are not used; cymbals supplant them, or tambourines, or even fingers. The Merry-Go-Round She stood just over the stove on one little toe, rattling some castanets, which made no sound, and never getting a step farther for all her prancing. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Again the ten boys repeated their song and dance and their castanets, and with a rapid genuflection disappeared. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Still the big setter, his silver-studded collar tinkling slightly like tiny shining castanets, galloped after that disreputable car as if he belonged to it and had been left carelessly behind. Frank of Freedom Hill An attempt was made at amusement when we gave two dances; one with castanets and tambourines and much swirling and swooping; another with Spanish shawls draped on us. The 1926 Tatler Her skirts flew about her, her pigtail swung round her in the air, her feet struck the ice firmly together like a pair of ringing castanets. The Dark Tower The castanets and music in the other room grew louder. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play And in my ears I hear the twang of the guitar, the rhythmical clapping of hands and the castanets, as two girls dance in the sunlight on a holiday. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Underneath this embodied spirit of night galloped the dog, filling the woods with barks, leaping high into the air, his teeth snapping and clicking like castanets. Frank of Freedom Hill They came pouring forth, those precious cakes, spilling out at the touch, and cracking together like castanets. The Boy Tar And they all began to dance and sing, and play on castanets and tambourines. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Thus, for hours, the submarine egg-gatherers continue at their arduous, perilous task; and, having finished it, they come paddling back to the shore, trembling, and their teeth clinking like castanets. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure In saying these words the young girl snapped her fingers together till they cracked like castanets; while her countenance, instead of expressing any very painful emotion, exhibited an air of perfect contentment. The Tiger Hunter He grinned most horribly, and snapped his teeth together like the rattle of castanets, as I rode up close to his side, and gave him his quietus with a pistol. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 The bobbins disentangled themselves under her fingers with a sound like the clicking of castanets. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life In Spain, they have a dance, called, Les Folies d’Espagne, which is performed either by one or by two, with castanets. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing His state of mind was not improved by the sound of the artist’s teeth chattering in his head like castanets. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains Though no longer believing themselves observed, they proceeded silently and with caution, the only noise made among them being the chattering of their teeth, which were going like three complete sets of castanets. The Boy Slaves Two rang bells, two played castanets, and two sang. The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales The dancing Spaniard with his eternal castanets whispers but a word to his dark-eyed senorita as he hands her another perfumed cigarette. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The castanets the Neapolitans most frequently use, are of the largest size. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing A wagon and a wobble-wheeled buggy, its dry spokes rattling like castanets, went by. Land of the Burnt Thigh Her pulses leaped to the throbbing notes, and she flung herself sinuously into the measures of the tango, snapping her fingers in lieu of castanets. The Fifth Ace David and all the people of Israel danced before Jehovah with all their might to the music of harps and lyres and drums and castanets and cymbals. The Children's Bible While the animal is in the act of running, its long split hoofs strike together, giving out a series of singular sounds that resemble the crackling of castanets. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys In a moment I was surrounded by a dark mass of angry creatures, leaping wildly at my legs, uttering shrill grunts, and making their teeth crack like castanets. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Two or three, standing close to him, can hear his teeth clacking like castanets! The Death Shot A Story Retold I expected to hear your teeth chattering together like castanets. Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win And then came the others, on foot: tambourines and wood blocks and parade cymbals and castanets. Pagan Passions The saints preserve me!" he exclaimed, while his teeth chattered like castanets, "this is horrible. At the Point of the Sword There was a tentative, half-hearted rattle of some castanets—which could have been managed by the Swami wiggling one knee, if he happened to have them concealed there. Sense from Thought Divide So I freely own that my jaws ached with the effort of keeping my teeth from clicking together like castanets. The Paternoster Ruby "But we came out to cut thatch, not to chase deer and get lost in the woods," suggested Goodman trying to laugh, though his teeth chattered like castanets. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims There, under expert tuition, she learned to rattle the castanets, and practised the bolero and the cachucha, as well as the classic arabesques and entrechats and the technique accompanying them. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert The knitting needles clicked upon each other in her trembling hands, like fairy castanets. Doom Castle "B-b-beats anything I ever s-s-struck!" chattered Toby, whose teeth were apparently rattling like castanets, either from cold or excitement, possibly a little of both. Afloat on the Flood “Plenty too much fever here come,” remarked Cupid, while his teeth clattered together like castanets. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Dawn had broken, though the sun was not yet up, and Colin shivered with the wakening and the cold, his teeth chattering like castanets. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Well, I ought to dance, with Father a born fiddler, and Mother brought up with castanets in her hands. Shorty McCabe on the Job We turned blue, and no matter how firmly I tried to shut my teeth they rattled like a pair of castanets. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 It consisted of two pebbles that were held in the hand and smitten together, after the manner of castanets, in time to the music of the voices. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Drums resounded, clarinets screeched, castanets clattered, and the shrill cries of the dancing girls rose above all the tumult. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs The effect of this animated picture was farther heightened by the cries of the venders, the harmony of some neighboring barber's guitar, the continual jingling of the mules' bells, and the clicking of castanets. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II It was bitterly cold and snowing hard, and we had scarce left the court-yard when I fell to shivering, my teeth clicking like castanets. The Statesmen Snowbound If she had produced a pair of castanets or a tambourine, he felt that such accessories would have been quite in keeping. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) His teeth were pounding together like castanets, now, so loudly that he feared Aunt Matilda must surely hear them. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) One of the Chinamen was so frightened that he let go all holds and dropped into the water, while his companion remained in the tree, his teeth chattering like castanets. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World It was a whirlwind of a dance, and an old wizard with a tom-tom, and a dark giant with metal castanets made music for the dancers, taking eccentric steps themselves as they played. The Golden Silence The sheets were jerking at the belaying pins, the blocks rattling in sharp snappings like castanets. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 The gray green moss hung festooned from branch to branch; and the light sifted down a tempered rain of gold; and all the shiny evergreens shook gypsy castanets of joy to the riffling wind. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The part the tambourine and the castanets play in these dances must be seen and heard to be understood: they punctuate not only the music, but also the movement, the sentiment, and the refrain. Spanish Life in Town and Country She had borrowed two sets of castanets, a pair of cymbals, and a triangle, and with these loud-sounding instruments she and her companions emphasized the chorus. The Luckiest Girl in the School Out in the garden, the Judge heard the click of castanets and the tap of the high heels. Judy So we waited, and I could hear his teeth clicking like castanets. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The pine needles clicked pixy castanets; and the moon beams sifted through the trees a silver dust. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The castanets are made of ebony, and are generally decorated with bunches of smart ribbons, which play a great part in the dance. Spanish Life in Town and Country The teeth of the plump little one—La Chica—rattled violently like castanets. Romance As the dance proceeded, the sound of the castanets grew wilder and wilder, and the high heels beat double raps on the floor. Judy His head shook so that his teeth rattled like castanets. The Mystery at Putnam Hall The School Chums' Strange Discovery The motion greatly resembles those of danseuses playing the castanets. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 Later an automobile agent visited the town—at the secret bidding of her Highness—but he was so unceremoniously hustled over the frontier that his teeth must have rattled like a dancer's castanets. The Princess Elopes My teeth chattered like castanets, jarring in my jaws until it was painful. Romance Until Montoya started giving one-man concerts in 1948, flamenco was strictly a music to accompany singers or dancers, who added to the rhythm with castanets, snapping fingers and feverishly clicking heels. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s My hands were around the throat of Prince Ernst of Wortumborg, and I was shaking him till his teeth chattered on each other like castanets. Arms and the Woman And Jack's hand, inside Mr. Stokes's beautiful, tall collar, shook Bertie back and forth till his teeth chattered like castanets, and his good-looking pink face grew more and more like a large, boiled beetroot. The Motor Maid On these occasions the music was not always composed of many instruments, and here we find only the cylindrical maces and a woman snapping her fingers in the time, in lieu of cymbals or castanets. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. The Lydian flute, as may be supposed, was the instrument which accompanied the dithyramb, associated with all kinds of harsh, clashing instruments, such as cymbals, tambourines, castanets. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The little sitting-room was drowsy as a church, its darkness not so much lit as stained amber by candlelight, and her voice was quiet and pattering and gentle, like castanets played softly. The Judge They were snapping their strong hooked beaks like castanets, and hissing indignantly. Children of the Wild To all such stupid moralizing it prefers the click of the castanets! Preaching and Paganism They danced to the music of the pipes, the lyre, the castanets of wood, steel, or brass, as is shown in the illustrations taken from the monuments. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. For the nonce I gave up the castanets to the bosun, and beat the drum myself, thumping it on its sound side joyously. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Now break forth from court and garden, and street and lane, the tinkling of innumerable guitars, and the clicking of castanets; blending, at this lofty height, in a faint but general concert. Washington Irving There is a wild look in Philander's eyes, and his teeth rattle like castanets. Miss Caprice Along its landward edge the plumed palms stood sentinel, rustling to the lipping waters and to the curious note of the Thibet-trees, sounding their long dry pods like castanets in the evening breeze. The Flower of the Chapdelaines The cold perspiration started from every pore, and each tooth in his clerical jaws clattered like pairs of castanets. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week He even lingered a little while in front of a café, where men were playing guitar and mandolin, and girls were dancing with castanets. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty The music is that of a reed pipe or a tambourine—a number of attendants assisting with castanets. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales All this was succeeded by vineyards, grape trellises, and arbors, with busy elves gathering the fruit which hung in purple clusters, and beneath the arbors other elves rattling castanets, beating tambourines, and dancing. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays Arline enters at their head, joyously singing, to the accompaniment of the rattling castanets, "Come with the Gypsy Bride;" her companions, blithely tripping along, responding with the chorus, "In the Gypsy's Life you may read." The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Julian whirled Cuckoo into the throng, and Valentine, snapping his long white fingers like castanets, stamped his feet as if to the measure of a wild music. Flames The falling water, sleeping in the dam or toiling all day at the mill, gurgles like the tinkling of castanets. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Why do they call themselves by the graceful name of "cuspidor"—suggestive of castanets and Andalusian wiles? The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 The teeth of the whole party were chattering like a concert of castanets. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 My wet clothes clinging round my body began to chill me now, and as I crept into the house and upstairs to my room, my teeth were chattering like castanets. Aylwin The trumpets of vice rang in his ears in vain, mingled with the more classical music of his life as the retreat from the barracks of Seville mingled with the click of Carmen's castanets. Flames But he was still dreadfully frightened and his teeth rattled like castanets. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians He knelt down, clapping his hands and snapping his fingers to imitate castanets. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 It was a feast of lanterns, and not without the accompaniment of guitars and castanets, and rich, soft voices. In the Footprints of the Padres Suddenly in the stillness they heard far away a dull rattling sound like the clatter of distant castanets. The Firm of Girdlestone I will grant Gallipolis as to her costume, but firmly to Seville or Valladolid I am held by her eyes; castanets, balconies, mantillas, serenades, ambuscades, escapades—all these their dark depths guaranteed. Heart of the West [Annotated] Meanwhile, the young man, who had regained his composure, brought from the inn some castanets, and before I was aware all were dancing merrily beneath the trees. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English When will the aristocracy of genius in France give over jingling, like castanets, their trashy rhymes "gloire" and "victoire," and apply themselves to objects worthy of creatures endowed with the faculty of reason? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 La Tulita have the castanets and just float up and down the sala, while all stand back and no breathe only when they shout. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California Two harvests a year; villages resonant and gay; a stately poverty; all Sunday the sound of guitars, dancing, castanets, love-making; houses clean and bright; storks in the belfries. The Man Who Laughs She was dressed as a Spanish dancer and in one hand held a tambourine and castanets. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts In this place likewise there were many vipers and serpents, the most dangerous of which have a kind of rattle on their tails, making a noise like our castanets. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time His father and I never knew why he cried for castanets. The Mettle of the Pasture Fandango, a popular Spanish dance, specially in favour among the Andalusians; is in ¾ time, and is danced to the accompaniment of guitars and castanets. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge He could hear the castanets of the tweed weaver's loom and the hum of his uncle's deep voice as he sang at his work. What's the Matter with Ireland? Now and then one of them sang, or a Spanish dancer pirouetted, clicking her castanets and casting languishing glances at the ring of auditors about her. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts The moment came when he could hold out no longer, with his teeth rattling like castanets, and his red face so hot that it was painful to the touch. Brave Tom The Battle That Won Materials for dancing; as masques, castanets, and a ladder of ten rounds. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Ah, the dear little mare, how I loved her when I felt her settle down into that long, easy gallop of hers, her hoofs going like a Spanish girl's castanets. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard There was a rattle as of castanets outside the door. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 Alice agreed, gaily; and she hummed a bar or two of "LaPaloma," snapping her fingers as castanets, and swaying her body a little, to suggest the accepted stencil of a "Spanish Dancer." Alice Adams So named from the resemblance to two chestnuts, or because chestnuts were first used for castanets. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section C And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room. Little Women This tree grows a hundred tiny castanets in a bunch, and when they ripen and become dry the wind shakes fine music from them. The Harvester It was a strange clicking noise in the distance not unlike castanets. The Lost World Men, sheepish of their smiles but with the small heels overhead clanging like castanets into their spirits, dared to glance up. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It But just the same, when she inquired of a traffic policeman the direction to the Hotel Hudson, even the mundane wording of her asking clicked like happy castanets into her spirit. Star-Dust Does she use the castanets, and wear a mantilla instead of a cap?' Love at Second Sight He planted wild yam under her windows that its queer rattles might amuse her, and hop trees where their castanets would play gay music with every passing wind of fall. The Harvester At the end of the apartment a lady ceased, on his appearance, humming an air to which she was dancing, and at the same time imitating castanets. Vivian Grey Out from the boats rushed music in clouds like incense; wild, African music of chanting voices, beating tom-toms, or clapping hands that clacked together like castanets. It Happened in Egypt Tum-tum-tum, tum-tum-tum," and she began swaying her body in time, humming an air and banging out the accompaniment, "'With my castanets, with my castanets.' Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California The rope soled sandals make this dance silent and infinitely light; one hears only the frou-frou of gowns, and ever the snap of fingers imitating the noise of castanets. Ramuntcho And the hop tree has its castanets all green and gold. The Harvester The rub and thrum of tamburelli and the clicking of castanets are heard, too, as twilight comes on, and the salterello is danced by many a group. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Furious blasts clutched at the windows, and rattled them like castanets. The Green Satin Gown Besides these, there were clanging instruments which were used chiefly in religious ceremonies: such were castanets, the cymbal, and the tambourine. Outline of Universal History The same moment the tiles on the roof began to clatter like so many castanets in the hands of giants, and the ground to wriggle and heave. A Rough Shaking Other girls were provided with a kind of castanets,—two flat pieces of hard dark wood, connected by a string. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints She clicked some castanets in her throat, which was her way of laughing. Geoffrey Strong Poppy snapped her fingers like a pair of castanets, making the little dogs start and whimper. The Far Horizon Then Kent passed her, loping back to the town, the led horse shaking his saddle so that it rattled the stirrups like castanets as he galloped. Lonesome Land From the dining-room came a din of songs, hand-clapping and castanets. The Quest Those bearing the hammer and fan were the Daikoku band: they were to sing the ballads Those with the castanets were the Ebisu party and formed the chorus. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints At the end of twenty minutes or so George began turning a delicate blue and a clatter as of distant castanets provided an obligato when he spoke, the same being performed by George's teeth. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Imitation rackets, battledoor and shuttlecock, hoops and sticks, castanets, cup and ball, tambourines, guitars, violins, hand-organs, banjos, and drums, all have their little day as fashionable favors. Manners and Social Usages A little black fellow, whose sobriquet is Othello, manages the castanets, and there is a tolerable flute played by one of the afterguard. Journal of an African Cruiser A crowd of thrushes go chasing a crow across the sky, making a great to-do, like a clattering confusion of faulty castanets. Wanderers A piano was tucked away in a corner, but the dancers kept time now with castanets and now by snapping their fingers. Familiar Spanish Travels But now he wanted to go to that table and knock the heads of Cheever and Zada together; he wanted to make their skulls whack like castanets. We Can't Have Everything "Do you know anything of it, fellow?" said the officer, looking at Andrew, whose jaws were chattering like a pair of castanets at the threats thrown out by the Highlander. Rob Roy — Volume 02 Take heart of grace, man," said Campbell, "and dinna sit clattering your jaws there like a pair of castanets! Rob Roy — Volume 01 As it was, Thor disappeared slowly in the direction from which he had come, his great head hung low, his long claws click, click, clicking like ivory castanets as he went. The Grizzly King They accompanied themselves with castanets, and, though the little fatling toed in and wore a common dress of blue-striped gingham, I am afraid she won our hearts from her graceful rival. Familiar Spanish Travels With his eyes closed, he saw her again playing the castanets, rounding her hips and shooting forward her little foot, in order to make the enraptured rustics admire the sculptural beauty of her leg. The Grip of Desire A band played behind the pillars, the rattle of castanets breaking in on the tinkle of the guitars when the beat was sharply marked. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" I saw the child dancing to the castanets, and it was a dance which one of our wretched, shameless slaves would not have danced.' The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History The gewgaws clattered like castanets, as though in frantic expostulation, and the radiant spun-glass humming-birds quivered until we expected them to break from their elastic fetters and fly away. A Versailles Christmas-Tide Snow had been falling above the village; our teeth chattered like castanets. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Notwithstanding some difficulties attending the manipulation of his instrument, Piney Woods managed to pluck several reluctant melodies from its keys, to an accompaniment by the Innocent on a pair of bone castanets. Short Stories Old and New His jaws snapped like castanets of steel,—and the sound awakened him, and he sprang to his feet, his spine as stiff as a brush, and his snarling fangs bared like ivory knives. Kazan "Look, look at that!" he chattered, his teeth clicking like castanets with sheer terror. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic With the exception of the first three, which are round dances, the dances are danced by two persons; the steps are very fancy, and for some castanets are used. Chimes of Mission Bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions And mark thee, when my heart is sad, And full of sweet regrets, Or when it throbs to laughter glad, Like feet to castanets. Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems And, chattering as if his teeth were castanets, the babu trod gingerly down damp stone steps whose center had been worn into ruts by countless feet. The Winds of the World He blubbered as his teeth went together like a pair of castanets. The Boys of Bellwood School Faustina shook as with an ague-fit, and her teeth chattered like a pair of castanets, as she crouched down in one corner of the back seat and huddled all her wrappings close about her. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths And surely the cymbals clashed now and again overhead; and the timbrel rang clear; and the castanets tinkled, keeping time with the measure. What's Bred in the Bone Chilled to the bone, his teeth chattering like castanets, the old man was stooping over the inanimate form on the ground when the two men came up. Jane Cable Presently up the street I heard a bony clack-clacking, and guessed it was the castanets of a serenading party. Sketches New and Old, Part 4. The "hellish harmonies" mostly result from an improvised band, one strumming the guitar, another clapping the sticks, and the third beating the bell-shaped irons that act as castanets. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Signor Francesco must follow her as, lamp in hand, she went downstairs, her high heels clattering like Spanish castanets. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca He thrust out both hands in front of him, and made the knuckles of every finger crack like castanets. The Eye of Zeitoon He chuckled; he clicked his loose false teeth like castanets. The Auction Block The suspense enhanced the Judge's perturbation till his chattering teeth sounded like castanets. The Spoilers Rouletta was about to move on, when the other addressed her through teeth that clicked like castanets. The Winds of Chance Southern Arabia has never been celebrated for producing musicians, like the banks of the Tigris to which we owe, besides castanets and cymbals, the guitar, the drum, and the lute, father of the modern harp. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 He made all eight fingers crack like castanets. The Eye of Zeitoon We knew her instantly for a Spanish dancer, because she had a fan in one hand and a pair of castanets in the other. Europe Revised They were restless and whining, and the snap of their jaws was like the clicking of castanets. The Golden Snare With the words she ran from the room, but was back in an incredibly short time, gowned as Bizet's cigarette girl, a red rose in her black hair, castanets upon her fingers. The Pit As he is off duty, he is wielding a magnificent twisted walking-stick, and he shakes in his hand like castanets the precious pair of scissors that never leaves him. Under Fire: the story of a squad Mrs. Wiggs made the statement as cheerfully as if her elbows were not sticking out through the boy's coat that she wore, or her teeth chattering in her head like a pair of castanets. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch The half-dozen slender legs darted in every direction like sword thrusts to reach their victims, and the cruel claws snapped so rapidly that the sound was like the rattling of castanets. The Sea Fairies Such an effect had the cold upon his jaws, that his teeth rattled like a pair of castanets. The Adventures of Roderick Random Then suddenly she tossed the castanets far across the room and dropped upon the couch, panting and laughing. The Pit They were the first musicians; they possessed guitars, single and double pipes, cymbals, drums, lyres, harps, flutes, the sambric, ashur, etc.; they had even castanets, such as are now used in Spain. Atlantis : the antediluvian world The howling chorus came up to the tower, with a clash of enormous castanets, and of poles beaten rhythmically together. The Garden of Allah At every house the women dance and sing, clashing castanets or cymbals of brass and jingling bunches of little brass bells in both hands. The Golden Bough The scallop and oyster Their two shells did roister, Like castanets flitting; While limpets moved clearly, And rocks very nearly With laughter were splitting. The Lilac Fairy Book The castanets snapped like the crackling of sparks; her black mantilla was a hovering cloud of smoke. The Pit All the while his teeth kept going like castanets, with a rapid champing sound. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches She wanted the roar of the tom-toms, the dash of the cymbals, the rattle of the negroes' castanets, the fluttering, painted figures of the dancers. The Garden of Allah Only one woman danced at a time, throwing the upper part of her body into the oddest postures, while she held in her hands a branch of fir or a kind of wooden castanets. The Golden Bough The unexplained matter was that neither of the trees ever touched the walls of the house during the highest wind, and that trees could not rattle like a man playing castanets or shaking dice. Desperate Remedies The boy's teeth were pounding together like castanets by the time they reached Cedarville, and every muscle ached with the fatigue of shaking. Main-Travelled Roads "Me too! me too!" sung Rob, dancing with joy, and clapping his precious pail and cover like castanets. Little Men And thereupon, he hurled his cap at the wall, and snapped his fingers like castanets. Notre-Dame De Paris I could hear the castanets and the tambourine, the laughter and applause. Carmen The colonel offered them the use of his band, but they, quite rightly, preferred the guitar, the castanets, and a woman's voice; an accompaniment which gave the dance its national characteristics. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot They were weak and paused often, catching themselves, in the act of stooping, with giddy motions, or staggering to the center of operations with their knees shaking like castanets. The Son of the Wolf Not very long before dawn I heard the Hottentot Ventv�gel, whose teeth had been chattering all night like castanets, give a deep sigh. King Solomon's Mines Jehan gazed at him with a malicious, knowing look, and cracked his fingers like castanets. Notre-Dame De Paris Carmen was squatting down near me, and every now and then she would rattle her castanets and hum a tune. Carmen The faint creaking of the metal bunk seemed, in the dead stillness and to his highly-tensed senses, like the rattling of castanets. The Yellow Claw "The ends of the bone think they are castanets as it is," I explained. The Man in Lower Ten He still continued an unabated whistling, and as nobody would dance, pulled off his coat, produced a pair of castanets, and whistling a mazurka, performed it with tremendous agility. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo Over her thumb hung castanets and in her hand was a tambourine. Bucky O'Connor Pshaw! what must be, will be!' and she rattled her castanets, as was her way when she wanted to drive away some worrying thought. Carmen I will grant Gallipolis as to her costume, but firmly to Seville or Valladolid I am held by her eyes; castanets, balconies, mantillas, serenades, ambuscades, escapades--all these their dark depths guaranteed. Heart of the West But when the drums began, the fife and the castanets, the canoe started, quivered, the paddlers dipped, it raced back to that shore whence it came, that shore that we thought island. 1492 They accompanied on guzlas, on castanets, on tambourines, and sang the old airs, doleful and languorous, or excitable and breathless as the flight of the earliest nomads in the beginnings of the world. The Secret of the Night And she danced about the room, snapping her fingers instead of castanets. An Unsocial Socialist I told her I should have liked to see her dance, only there were no castanets to be had. Carmen Beneath it, wedged knelt Tommy with a pistol firm in his hand; but the plates were rattling up and down like castanets. Lin McLean Then at his gesture one brought his presents, a mirror, a rich belt, a knife, a pair of castanets. 1492 Listening attentively, Servadac and his associates could distinctly recognize a human voice, accompanied by the notes of a guitar and by the measured click of castanets. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space By the bed-head stood a rickety cupboard on four feet with a door that continually rattled with a sound like castanets. The Country Doctor She was to warn them with her castanets the instant she caught sight of the patrol. Carmen I hear the dance-music of all nations, The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss, The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets. Leaves of Grass Dice rattled, now there were castanets and dancing, and now church bells seemed to rock the place. 1492 Only give them a guitar and their castanets, and they will soon forget all care and anxiety. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space If there had been words enow between 'em to have expressed provocation, they had gone together by the ears like a pair of castanets. The Way of the World From his left shoulder the raven partly arose, moving his big wings, and: "Smartest leg!" it shrieked in Kerry's ear and rattled imaginary castanets. Dope With that he pretends to dash a tear from his eye-crocodile!—and goes out, leaving me in my fur by the blazing fire, my teeth going like castanets. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes She hummed a tune to herself, rattling a pair of castanets slightly now and then. Within the Tides The Spaniards were in the best of spirits; one of them played the guitar, another the castanets, and the rest joined in a ringing chorus. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space In the dark that followed came a rhythmic thud of hoofs far up the creek, and the rattle of living castanets. The Lure of the Dim Trails "Yes, yes, my little friend," he crooned in Chinese, while Tling-a-Ling rattled ghostly castanets. Dope "Smartest—" He even attempted the castanets imitation, but was overcome by drowsiness. Dope Before he had really time to understand the subject of the quarrel, the girl jumped up rattling her castanets loudly. Within the Tides "No mistake about that, sir," replied Ben Zoof; "a Spaniard would rattle his castanets at the cannon's mouth." Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space While he was dressing his teeth chattered like castanets in a minstrel show. The Lure of the Dim Trails The uncanny cracked voice proceeded to give an excellent imitation of a police whistle, and concluded with that of the clicking of castanets. Dope |
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