| 单词 | crotchet |
| 例句 | The four principal beats of our bar are known as ‘crotchets’ - each crotchet is made up of four semiquavers - and we can use these crotchets to track where the strong, or accented, beats fall. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z "I can't read or write music," she said, "but if I were a musician, I'd have put a crotchet here instead of a quaver." Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z I'd have too many crotchets in a bar and things like that, but still wrote symphonies and concertos. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z What binds the stories are the tight relationships of Varg and his colleagues and their hilariously human crotchets. Philip Kerr’s Last Novel and a New Series From Alexander McCall Smith 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But then, each of the dead has some crotchet or obsession. Never mind that all of the characters are dead, ‘The Dirty Dust’ is full of life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z “Have you ever watched a woman crotchet?” she asks in a telephone interview from her Seattle home. Washington works — and plays — at Northwest Folklife Festival 2013-05-23T18:05:39Z They grope for direction but are seldom lost for words, and beneath their barmy crotchets and pretentious dissertations there’s heartache and yearning. Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy 2012-03-18T05:30:57Z Ms Crofts described the crotchet part of the project as a "labour of love", and said she took it with her wherever she went so she could work on it during spare moments. Ilkeston: Woman crochets 6ft soldier to mark Remembrance Day 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z It’s also even in more mundane ways, in cross-stitch, in crotchet and quilting, creating beauty literally from the scraps on the margins. Imani Perry: Don’t marginalize the South in America’s history 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Maybe you already sew, crotchet, build furniture, compose music or write short stories. If you want to boost your brainpower, do what you love | Provided by Koelsch Communities 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z A yellow crotchet collar is the one she wears when she announces a majority opinion for the Supreme Court, she told Katie Couric. Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a cultural icon, from fashion choices to portrayals on the big screen 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z As for the campaign for zero cash in the service of negative interest rates, Mr. Rogoff’s brief is best seen not as detached scientific analysis but as a kind of left-wing crotchet. Hostage to a Bull Market 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z In one particularly musical moment, he expresses planetary motions in musical notation — the orbits of Mercury, Venus and their neighbours spun out into crotchets and quavers. Strike a chord 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z "Is 'Forward Guidance' a crotchet .... to which exaggerated importance is attributed?," Fed's Fisher asks, is rate guidance just a fad? 2014-03-21T17:54:15Z But if he has what they must think ecclesiastical crotchets, he always manages them with most skilful prudence. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Where the controversy is of a smaller kind and admits of crotchet, then he is pretty sure to bring out a crotchet of some kind. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z He is a wretched, cross-grained, fidgety man and full of crotchets. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z It was not any political crotchet that occasioned this stoppage. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z It was a favourite crotchet with this writer, that heraldry did not owe its origin to any particular period or nation, but that it sprang from the light of nature. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z A thief, with crotchet at his back— A Honey thief—ill may he thrive. Buzz a Buzz or The Bees 2012-02-18T03:00:15.753Z He has a crotchet about Russia, a theory about China; he gets quite beside himself in his anger over the anonymous leading articles of the London press. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The marquis was a tall, well-built, handsome fellow, dreamy and absent in manner, pedantic in his ways, a trifle too much enamoured of the crotchets of his day. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z He, according to "Wegeler's Notizen," gives it with a minim—I with a crotchet; but neither of these can, to my mind, be made to suit the character of the movement. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z He was so beset with crotchets which required coaxing. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z His brother's ruin showed the result of crotchets. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z There on the platform sat the good, the gifted, and the fearless Francis Newman; and immediately around him were some dozen embodied and living crotchets and crazes. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z She certainly was full of whims and crotchets, and would try the patience of any one but a saint like Miss Liza. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z God knows, who has kneaded into me those mad desperate fancies and crotchets, which perhaps would sit better on a Hero Schabacker than on an Army-chaplain under him. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Denoting common time; the former indicating four crotchets to the bar, the latter two minims to the bar. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z What a lack of common prudence would he show then, if for a crotchet he should bar himself out of Tom Tiddler's ground! My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z But no school lives on one grand idea; and this school had its chimeras and crotchets—almost its crazes. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Fad, fad, n. a weak or transient hobby, crotchet, or craze: any unimportant belief or practice intemperately urged.—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Tennyson appreciated “Old Fitz’s” fine qualities as a critic, but he recognized their limitations, and in particular his “crotchets” and prejudices. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Denoting that the beat of a crotchet is equal to the pulse of the pendulum of Maelzel's metronome, with the weight set at 80. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Now he was consumed with rage in that his younger brother should show so little proper feeling as, for some silly crotchet, to jeopardise his senior's interests. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z "X," I said to myself, "you are mad, and I, poor sane fool, can only remember that I once did crotchet work in drawing-rooms." By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z They were sickly things these dancers—crotchets and quavers and semiquavers who had captured the semblance of humanity, who breathed and bowed and capered, merely because musick had conjured them into existence. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z FitzGerald had his limitations and his prejudices—his “crotchets.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z But like all theoretical crotchets, he carried his philosophical speculations too far. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z It is only a stupid ceremony; but I daresay it is just as good as our own crotchets. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z Illustration is a mania of the day—a crotchet of a public whose reading appetite, it is to be feared, is in no very healthy state. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z When he spoke of crotchet, he probably meant cruck, of which it was a later derivative. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z That foolish boy has got some crotchet into his head. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z Some of these represented mere crotchets, but they were all intended to aid in that conservation of English undefiled which was so dear a purpose to Mr. Bryant. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z If he got a crotchet inter his head, you couldn't beat it out—he was worse now than he was afore he got married the second time. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Now, by our Lady! every man hath his crotchets in this world, but we must ever sing with the birds we live with. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z Whereupon not knowing what to do, and being loth to be discredited, a crotchet came into his crown, which he presently put in execution. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z That child has got more crotchets in his head than you can shake a stick at. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z Look, there is a man with a crotchet; he keeps on perpetually scratching his left ear and his right palm alternately, and then touching the ground with the tips of his fingers. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z Don't mind my crotchets, Miss Farrell, I have a fancy to have you here with me at the obsequies of all this sixteenth-in-the-twentieth century nonsense. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Is there any happiness like that escape on a summer's day from the dull struggle with vacuity, brown paper-covered books, dates, ink-blots, cramps, and crotchets, into the open air of birds, sounds, flowers, liberty everywhere? Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z "Why did I vex you so often, and pain you, even by my death, and be so unforgiving to all your little innocent crotchets?" he said, weeping bitterly. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The list of representatives of the 8th February was a harlequinade, including every republican shade and every political crotchet. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z God knows, who has kneaded into me those mad, desperate fancies and crotchets, which perhaps would sit better on a Hero Schabacker, than on an Army-chaplain under him. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z And they agree on so many points—even their crotchets. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z Moreover, to set up fidgetty crotchets as principles of truth, whereby the sense of the ludicrous is excited in others, and not reverence, is not the way to increase and multiply. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z She is seldom able to be dressed before twelve, and can do very, very little—to read a few verses or do a row of her crotchet is the outside. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The body which occupied his attention at this crisis of the commonwealth, was a musical deputation, which craved sweet counsel regarding some matter of crotchets or of bars. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z A capital girl, only rather too full of crotchets: she was always a little too high up in the sky for me, but she would have suited you. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z It was a most unreasonable time for such a summons, but Sarah was a fidgety old crotchet, and knew how frightfully good-natured Mrs. Sutton was. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z "Well, you have always some new crotchet in your crotchety little head," said Jennie, as she started to obey. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Where the beat is in crotchets it sounds unduly slow:— Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z Oh 'twill be An excellent age of crotchets; and of Canters. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z That's the dreadful thing about old people; they are ever for making the whims and crotchets of age the rules of life to others. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z He has a crotchet in his head about buying up half the West of Ireland,—some scheme about flax and the deep-sea fishery. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Yes; but this is a mere crotchet, an effect of his malady. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z Three even crotchets with judicious tempo rubato would give it. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z She relapsed into what M. d'Hergemont called her crotchets; and they pursued their road in silence. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z With rheumatism in his joints and crotchets in his brain, He finds that he can hardly catch th' accommodation train. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z But as the papers contained little or no war news, we had no time to bestow upon the crotchets of the Yankee brain, and they were promptly consigned to the waste-paper basket. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Among the changes of opinion which had by degrees crushed down Mr. Armstrong's prejudices and crotchets, were two important ones, not perhaps in themselves, but in their results. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z The words "silver bangle" want four quavers instead of two crotchets, and it will be worn on the hand as they call the wrist or any part of the arm. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z Every name or remark that he has added to the text, is scrupulously inserted between crotchets; nor is there, throughout the whole, any one passage or word of the original author's so inclosed. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z There is music open, stave and cleff and crotchet and quaver; but the big-headed notes seem to be bobbing up and down upon their spindle bodies, and wagging their tails, and waltzing round and round. A Little World But come, my lad: to be serious, what has put this crotchet into your head?” A Double Knot By means of six accents, one bar and a crotchet it is possible to note with sufficient precision the indications of tone without which the Annamese words have no sense for the natives. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The ends he always took seriously—the crotchets he often took humorously, to the great easement of many situations that are liable to arise on a committee. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History He said that beast of a Ricevitore—the receiver of customs—had confiscated a roll of manuscript music he had with him, taking the crotchets and quavers for a secret political correspondence. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico You can't expect to ride your new crotchet without anybody's trying to make him kick you off: especially as we shall have to go on foot still. Tom Brown at Rugby The seven last letters of each series stand for the seven musical notes—the first series representing quavers, the second minims, the third semibreves, the fourth crotchets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" There were many persons who lived by raising up bugbears of this description in the present day, and those persons were always raising up some new crotchet or another.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. I don't know how it was, but it seemed to me that the duchess came back from England with some crotchet in her head, about something she heard in London. Jack Hinton The Guardsman I may say so honestly to you; for you are one of the best of them, though you have your crotchets, too, no doubt. Edelweiss A Story It is entirely free from all casuistical crotchets and distinctions without a difference. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews For be it known that Maria Penstemon had a will of her own, and a strong tendency to foster crotchets. The New Mistress A Tale He must have been a sanitary man; his fiddle was a crotchet. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Evidently the preacher is a learned, painstaking student of the Dryasdust school—full of crotchets; but the biggest crotchet of all is that he should go on preaching year after year in Mill Yard. The Religious Life of London The English Government, on some fine-drawn crotchet, refused to colonies which were weak and helpless what they would have granted without a word if demanded by Victoria or New South Wales, whose resentment they feared. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Again, though he was a philosopher he was not, I think, a man of crotchets. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) The present crotchet was homoeopathy, which, without expressing any belief for or against, the doctor had forbidden her to practise. The New Mistress A Tale She is certainly getting the worst end of it, and after putting up with Bob Harrison’s crotchets so many years.” The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks The purchase being secure, the finger is to be employed to keep the fœtus from escaping, by pushing it against or towards the point of the crotchet, and holding it there. The Dog They have infinite crotchets and caprices with their clocks and watches, which seem made for anything but to tell the hour—gold-repeaters, watches with metal covers, clocks with hands to count the seconds. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time What in the world is the young 'un after now?" thought he; "I've swallowed a good many of his crotchets, but this altogether beats me. Tom Brown's School Day's “Nonsense, dear!” he cried, laughing; “why, what crotchet is this that you have got into your head?” The New Mistress A Tale And this pernicious result is strengthened by another crotchet of the popular mind—the habit we have fallen into of regarding the human race as a continuous whole instead of being the individual. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 I will now proceed to describe the crotchet, and explain the manner in which I have employed that instrument. The Dog Lesbia set to work to try and explain the functions of a minim, a crotchet, and a quaver. Loyal to the School Yes; but there is a great difference between may and will take place: thereby hangs many a difficult crotchet to unravel. The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. She's marrying the first man in Europe,—be the other who he will,—and she has as many crotchets and misgivings about it as if it was little Hans, there, below! The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life "Your crotchets deceive you in a singular manner," said Axel, embarrassed, and wishing to escape. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors As regards other means—such as the tube and wire, the crotchet, the supports to the abdomen, and the employment of stimulants—these must be regulated by the circumstances of the case. The Dog This big note with a hole in it is a semibreve and it counts four of these black notes, which are called crotchets. Loyal to the School In the midst of this carnage of crotchets and quavers, the director is obviously the controlling spirit who "rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm." Physiology of The Opera Seclusion and blissful ignorance have preserved them from the crotchets of reformers, and continued to them the benefits of a wholesome despotism. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Our host yonder," continued Mr. Humphreys, in the best of humors, sipping his coffee, "among his other crotchets, endows his people with what Nature saw fit to deny to them,—souls. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 Mr. Perry, to whom I applied, had a human crotchet in his shop, and this he consented to alter according to my directions. The Dog He avoided collision with any of their crotchets and idiosyncrasies. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. They are willing to agree to anything reasonable, and do not persist in amendments just in order that a favourite crotchet may be gratified. The Hills and the Vale And though of late years she has been made something of a heroine, it is to be feared that admiration has been directed rather to her crotchets than to her character. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Perhaps I might make some impression on him, and prevail upon him not to press his crotchets too far. Eyes Like the Sea I stayed till the alterations were completed, and by eleven at night reached home, to put the adaptation of the crotchet to the test. The Dog She is a quaint one, full of her crotchets, but clear—clear as a bell where her interests are involved. Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories A crotchet this, perhaps, of my own; but it is my feeling, nevertheless. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I It was in defence of the dogmas of the Church that Coleridge elaborated his unhappy crotchet of the diversity of the reason from the understanding. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Now he must simply start afresh, in consequence of what his Protestant friends regarded as an ecclesiastical crotchet. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Not a mark which I could attribute to the crotchet was to be discovered. The Dog Your young shoulders will have to learn to bear the crotchets of all sorts of people and not bend or break under them.... The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Is it a crotchet or a quaver that has a waggle on the end of it? I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts I never paid much attention to Neighbor's crotchets before I met Ruth. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended I’ll be bound they all think you an honest fellow like themselves, a worshipper of the gods, without crotchets or hobbies of any kind. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century So simple is the crotchet, which ought to be highly polished, in order to secure its being perfectly smooth. The Dog It is a point of honour among us to know every kink and crotchet of day-to-day working. An Ocean Tramp That crotchet is not one I should choose to entertain for an instant. Shirley Luke Shepard felt immensely superior at this time to Mr. Northrup with his crotchets and foibles. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended It is not the fascinating and humorous egotism of Lamb, who disarms us80 beforehand by a smile at his own crotchets. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Mainly, we unhesitatingly reply, through the influence exerted by certain crotchets entertained by the bodies themselves on their political standing. Leading Articles on Various Subjects For Khalid is gradually becoming a man of ideas and crotchets. The Book of Khalid The whole action must be free and bold and the tempo for this exercise should be not slower than M.M. crotchet = 100. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. For the purposes of creating the midi file, the transcriber replaced the rhythmical notation of the penultimate bar with 'quaver, dotted crotchet, crotchet', hence, maintaining the triple time pulse. Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. His villains want backbone, and his heroes are deficient in simple overmastering passion, or supplement their motives by some overstrained and unnatural crotchet. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) What became in our times a heresy in the theological field, would have spent itself, as the mere crotchet of a few unripened intellects, in the metaphysical one. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Suddenly it is taken up by a minister of commanding influence, and the bore or the crotchet of one parliament is the great party controversy of a second, and the accomplished triumph of a third. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Here, indeed, is a gentleman who is certainly neither a dealer in crotchets nor a rider of hobbies. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement To 'humor' a man, as the word is here used, is to turn and wind and manage him by watching his moods and crotchets, and to touch him accordingly. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Nobody can be freer from the dominion of crotchets. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Men carefully weigh principles for the assertion of which they may be called on to sacrifice or to suffer, and are usually little in danger, in such circumstances, of becoming martyrs to a mere crotchet. Leading Articles on Various Subjects What importance can we attach to the crotchets of a madman? The Confessions of Arsène Lupin "Most people have some crotchet or other," said the Rector. The Perpetual Curate Look here, Roby; you got that crotchet into your head in the delirium that followed your wound. The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War But putting aside this and the crotchets about336 spelling, which have been dignified with the name of philological theories, the general direction of his sympathies is eminently characteristic. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The remainder, excepting Miss Arden, may be classed with mutes, crotchets, irregular verbs, quotations, and parallels.’ The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies. Many laughed at his machines, regarding them only in the light of crotchets,—frequently quoting the proverb that “a fool and his money are soon parted.” Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson It is unnecessary, in this three in a bar, to mark all the quavers; the rhythm of a crotchet followed by a quaver in each beat suffices. The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art "That's a crotchet of yours," said he, smiling at her: he thought if this were all, the thing might be managed. The End of a Coil He was courteous and attentive to his guests, though occasionally irritable when his favourite crotchets were transgressed, or especially if his fixed hours of work were deranged. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Any little temperamental crotchets in which you differ from the run of people round you? Sundry Accounts The idea that the value did not lie in the government stamp they dismissed as an idle crotchet, a wire-drawn theory, worthy only of "literary fellows." The Critical Period of American History By this time I was well aware of Mazarin's crotchets, and took care to present myself at the proper time. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France I declare, if you are going to help him in his crotchets, I won't let you see much of him! The End of a Coil The late Professor De Morgan devoted a bulky and instructive volume to an account of such people and their crotchets. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest Is he a point of admiration whose head is too heavy, or a quaver or crotchet that has lost his neighbors, and fallen out of the scale? Spare Hours In his eyes they were subjective crotchets limited to some, and not objective crises common to all, who think. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 One might expect her to be content with so dignified and enviable a lot, and to pass tranquil days in coddling the cottagers, patronizing the rector's wife, and impressing her crotchet on the national school. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) With this set Tom soon fraternized, and drank in many new ideas, and took to himself also many new crotchets besides those with which he was already weighted. Tom Brown at Oxford I saw lace albs there, with crotchet work marvellously executed by hand, and adorned with brilliants. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 She was blind to the glory of to-morrow and more than filled with absurd crotchets, and yet there was but one woman in America who could make my heart run away from control. A Virginia Scout Lord Ripon closed his eyes to all this—doctrinaire at heart, he could see nothing but his own crotchets. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Our whimsey crotchets will manage it all; Deep! A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II You've got a whole skin, and a lieutenant's commission to make your way in the world with, and are troubled with no particular crotchets yourself that need ever get you into trouble. Tom Brown at Oxford But I would not add one leaf to these wreathes, nor one crotchet to the songs of praise which vibrate around them. The Merry-Go-Round ‘I should never have believed a man of his years could be so green; but some men get crotchets about honour in the army, especially if they get elderly there.’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster This is the Irish crotchet, which in its finer varieties is a close imitation of Venetian Point, but made with fine thread and with a crotchet needle. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The treatise of the known author may, as we have said, carry that author's controversies on its own shoulders: and even his crotchets, if we may use such a word. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Why, then, should valuable space be wasted for three birds, simply to perpetuate an error in working out a crotchet? Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. It is my firm belief that there is an intimate relationship between the stomach and the ear, the saucepan and the crotchet, the mysteries of Mrs. Rorer and the mysteries of Mme. The Merry-Go-Round Here they are intolerable—intolerable, self-sufficient, impertinent upstarts, full of crotchets of their own; and the bishop is a weak, timid fool; as for me, I never go inside a church. The Bertrams He was full of such fads, and nothing should persuade him to alter the crotchets, which, for want of something better, he made the marks of his dour character. The House with the Green Shutters Aunt Sophia was, in their opinion, all crotchets, all nervousness, all fads. Girls of the Forest "No crotchet at all," she answered, and then all at once she got up and stood before the mantel-glass, looking at herself fixedly. Vagabondia 1884 In truth, Virchow does me greatly too much honour when he designates as my "personal crotchet" an idea which for the last ten years has been the most precious common possession of all morphological science. Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel There was ever a commercial crotchet in your head, and I am sure it now suggests the rejoinder—that to rule the world is nothing, so long as one can't rule the market. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 He remarked casually that there was manifestly some whim or crotchet back of the man’s action, such as is so frequently the case with aristocratic people. The Goose Man She put her foot down 29 on this little crotchet, and pressed this passing desire out of sight. Girls of the Forest Presently, Professor Villiers remarks to the orchestra, “Instead of playing two short quavers, please play the crotchet in three time.” The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Here you have just that kind of crotchet that I am going to deal with. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. But the crotchets and quavers became people, and the staves the roads along which they passed; and, the more he tried, the more excited he grew. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne She looked upon his apathy toward the theatre and his dislike of social distractions as a caprice, a crotchet on his part. The Goose Man It is of such consequence to have an Archbishop of York, who will, like the late Archbishop, avoid quarrels and crotchets, and live peaceably with all men. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 Hence others, whose defect in intellectual training is more latent, have their most unfortunate crotchets, as they are called, or hobbies, which deprive them of the influence which their estimable qualities would otherwise secure. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Now, who knows but these crotchets will be worth hearing about? Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. What there was in the boy that moved him to write verse it would be difficult to say—some bent, some crotchet, which defies explanation. American Men of Mind But the drudgery of teaching the young mind to distinguish between crotchet and quaver, and mark time, mark time, wore Von Barwig out. The Music Master Novelized from the Play Curse me if I can tell how it is; since I've been in that vault, I've got some queer crotchet into my head. Rookwood Many of the things brought forward would now be called crotchets, which is the nearest word we have to old paradox. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I Then why may not my book on crotchets find readers? Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. Who, not the Duke? yes, your beggar of fifty; and his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the Duke 120 had crotchets in him. Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy 140 head. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] One of these rules seems to our eyes a principle dictated by common sense, while the other looks very much like an idle crotchet. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society But there is this difference, that by calling a thing a crotchet we mean to speak lightly of it; which was not the necessary sense of paradox. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I I don't pretend that a person has any thing to boast of, because his head is full of crotchets. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. As for Trencher, the one crotchet in his cool brain centred about that worthless trade dollar. From Place to Place Now, in the enforced retreat he was undergoing on her account, he gave way to all his crotchets, the greatest of which was fancying himself always ill. Artists' Wives "The three sedate musicians in the orchestra, totally engrossed by minims and crotchets, are an admirable contrast to the company in the pit." The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency The infernal noise jigged on his brain-pan as if every flying crotchet and quaver stamped like the hoof of a little devil in the surface of his brain. Despair's Last Journey A crotchety person, according to this same Noah Webster, whom I have quoted before, is one who has whims or crotchets in the brain. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. I shall soon find out what your special fads and crotchets are. Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story The right of General William R. Terrill's brigade of Jackson's division rested on woods to the left of Rousseau, his left forming a crotchet to the rear. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Many a tyro who plunges into the stream of Bach's crotchets and quavers soon finds himself encompassed by a whirlpool of seeming impossibilities, and is frequently heard to exclaim that the passages are impracticable. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators The crotchet, formed by the front line and General Desha's division was an important point. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 For some of Mike's crotchets I am indebted to this old friend of his. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. We are such very old chums that I put up with his religious crotchets. Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story Thus for each note in the music there is one step, one progression in space, while at the same time the note, if of greater length than a crotchet, is analysed into crotchets. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze There is another crotchet to be mentioned: some will tell you they will inform you who made your Violin by taking the belly off, and examining the shape of the blocks and linings. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Likewise from the Times: so semi-briefs may speak a temper dull and phlegmatic; minims, grave and serious; crotchets, a prompt wit; quavers, vehemency of passion, and scolds use them. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 All the time, however, Mike had a crotchet in his head. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. His second important peculiarity shows that he must have been an odd and crotchety creature, but one with sense in his crotchets. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Notes of shorter duration than the crotchet, i.e., quavers, triplets, etc., are expressed also by steps which become quicker in proportion to their frequency. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Even in his crotchets and quavers he was charming. The Masques of Ottawa At first, as has been already stated, feeling its way with difficulty amid a host of obstacles, long-established and successful rivals, Government prosecutions abroad, and personal crotchets and peculiarities at home. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But he had his crotchets about an act of charity, as well as about every thing else. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. His father wished him to be trained for the law, but music had greater charms for him, and the margins of his books were marked over with crotchets and quavers. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present A man with a crotchet should select a partner with the same morbid fancy. Plain Facts for Old and Young The reader will notice that there is a separate movement for each crotchet in the following tune. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries In ten minutes they built us a booth for the night; driving two crotchets into the ground, they joined them with a ridge-pole, against which they inclined a number of sticks for rafters. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America With all his oddities and crotchets, he always had a kind and warm heart beating in his bosom. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. "My little freshwater college wasn't strong on the sciences," said Shelby, speculating whether this particular crotchet required humoring. The Henchman Nor do we detect affectation in her most notable vagaries and crotchets. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 But it is not the Christian doctrine of redemption for which Mr. W. labors so zealously, but a theory, a crotchet, an invention of the elders. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story It was one of his innumerable and rather provincial crotchets to encourage prose as against poetry. The Victorian Age in Literature My business is with another family of crotchets. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. "Humor a silk stocking according to his crotchet, that's my maxim," submitted Bowers as they threshed the matter out in its latest aspect. The Henchman Your friend’s notion of my life has put a crotchet in my head of sketching it in some future epistle to you. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham That fellow De Burgh has the queerest crotchets, and doesn't hesitate to air them. A Crooked Path A Novel "I don't know," he said; "folks are queer crotchets." Autumn Mr. Webster could not have hit my crotchet more exactly, if he had taken aim at it on purpose. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. But don't you be such a fool as to ruin yourself for a crotchet of Monk's. Phineas Finn The Irish Member But my father had his crotchets—which is odd, as I'm supposed to resemble him—he had his crotchets, and among them was an affection for your father. Dead Man's Rock Dresden life at last flowed more easily with Hasse and Faustina on the advent of Augustus III., who possessed his father's connoisseurship without his crotchets and favoritism. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag One would think he need not have wondered long, when there were so many people suffering from the want of what he abounded in; but Mr Benjamin, honest man, had his crotchets like other folks. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 Let us turn our attention, at present, to crotchets. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. Because, of her intention toward you, I am not so sure—but, women are queer creatures and prone to take queer crotchets. The Colonel of the Red Huzzars You are wondering at the name 'Craigie Cottage'—another crotchet of my father's. Dead Man's Rock By a half-word he let drop, I fancy he has a crotchet in his head that his lordship will find him some work when he comes home. Elster's Folly It would have been happy for you, if my diagrams and crotchets had gotten you to sleep on that day, as you are pleased to say they eternally do. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 The crotchets are natural and unavoidable in one case—the warts are natural and unavoidable in the other. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities. The quality has much fallen off during the last eighteen months, but it affords a convenient outlet for the young colonists to air political and social crotchets, and to descant on philosophical theories. Town Life in Australia My father had his crotchets, it is true; but he was no fool. Dead Man's Rock She had grown sourer with years and more eccentric with authority, but the general never failed to treat her crotchets with courtesy or to open the door for her when she came and went. The Voice of the People Mr. Hawkins' powerful address quickly disposed of Dr. Kenealy and his crotchets. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Compelled to insert in one of his works the qualifying opinions of the censor of the Sorbonne, he inserted them within crotchets. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 As to his entertaining any superstitious crotchets about having his hair cut,—the spirit of the age forbid it! Idolatry A Romance By taking the crotchet as the unit to start with, the old-fashioned plan of exalting the semibreve, the least used note in music, to a primary place, is avoided. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students The parallel order with a crotchet on the flank, is sometimes used in a defensive position, and also in the offensive with the crotchet thrown forward. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. He had gotten the philosophical blockhead's crotchet into his head, and carried the principle, in a practical point of view, much further than ever the old fool himself did in his life. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Thought is growing agreement, and that in which the race cannot meet me is some whim or notion, a personal crotchet, not a cosmic and eternal truth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 What particular crotchet could he have been humoring in this case? Idolatry A Romance Alfred's father was Mr. Johnson's first cousin and had more crotchets and worse. The Melting of Molly Wellington, at Waterloo, formed the parallel order with the retired crotchet on the right flank. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. She kissed it when she looked at it now, and placed it very near the crotchet edging in her regard. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town Governor Shelby, as senior major general of the Kentucky troops, was posted at this crotchet, formed between the first and second divisions. Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians The passage in crotchets is omitted in the folio, because I suppose as the story was forgotten, the jest was lost. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies The latter, always a respecter of the peculiarities and crotchets of his friends, promised. Twelve Men "I shall bow, in spite of Dr. Grey and his crotchets," said she. Christian's Mistake But her heart was not stirred by it as it had been by the crotchet edging which Jenny Ray had made for her. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town Conrad must come to the country to get rid of his crotchets! The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 What is printed in crotchets is not in the folio. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Most of the members are more anxious about their own crotchets or their own consistency than about the country. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government Along the mighty profile of the hill a fringe of little black crotchets advanced. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria The great majority of them are disinterested and patriotic men, who will not allow in the long run either personal ambition or political crotchets to prevent them from coöperating for the good of the cause. The Promise of American Life He defends the Commission of Triers and the Commission of Ejectors, and more than once twits Goodwin with having taken up at last the extreme crotchets of Roger Williams the American. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 He has taken a fancy to her; she is odd, as he is; and he isn't so queer after all, but that his crotchets have a good, straightforward sense of justice in them. Real Folks Whether it happened to be a sound idea or a crotchet, it stood before his mind with the clearness of an object in sunlight. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs Suddenly reinforcements arrive, hundreds of them; the whole sky-line bristles with crotchets moving swiftly along it, bending forward almost double, as if driving through a hailstorm. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria They have an infinite interest and curiosity in the hubbub of human moods and crotchets that surrounds us all. Mince Pie Sometimes a want of proper support for the flanks is remedied by throwing a crotchet to the rear. The Art of War Miss Balquidder had, like most folk, her opinions or "crotchets"—as they might be—and one of them was, to keep her business and friendly relations entirely distinct and apart. Mistress and Maid "Excuse me," said Lamb; "on the subject of characters in active life, plotters and disturbers of the world, I have a crotchet of my own, which I beg leave to reserve." The Bed-Book of Happiness Thus from self-love or wilfulness or vanity they work their own humours and crotchets and fancies into the matter, or overlay it with some self-pleasing quirks of peculiarity. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England He was a 'character,'" said an English critic at the time: "a man of whims and oddities, of hobbies and crotchets.... Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 This is dangerous; because a crotchet stuck on a line hinders its movements, and the enemy may cause great loss of life by placing his artillery in the angle of the two lines prolonged. The Art of War The old man had too many crotchets and too much combativeness to be popular. California Sketches, Second Series It is furnished with crotchets and creeping foliage. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 583, December 29, 1832 He was an old-fashioned Whig, with some peculiar crotchets, and never could work with any Cabinet.” The Three Brides Professors still have their crotchets like other people; but we can scarcely conceive a professor of our day coming out like Adam Smith, and making fishwives to pass such observations on his demeanour. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character The parallel order with a defensive or offensive crotchet; 3. The Art of War Yes, yes, one of your crotchets, dear doctor, nothing else. Miriam Monfort A Novel He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know,—the same yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" There are in him no quaintnesses, no crotchets, no conceits, and no involutions or affectations—all is transparent, masculine, and energetic. Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham Why is it," thought Matthew, stretching himself in his chair, and looking critically at the widow, who was knitting crotchet work, "why is it that I no longer adore her? Round the Block It may be also the result of an offensive combination; but then the crotchet is to the front, whilst in the case of defense it is to the rear. The Art of War The squat little Spanish peasant is not more gloriously incapable of following the chivalric vagaries of his master than the simple soldier is of grasping the philosophic crotchets of his brother. Sterne Whatever honest, commonplace affection was in the man came out in a simple way to this Lois, who ruled his sick whims and crotchets in such a quiet, sturdy way. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 But they bore with my "crotchets" very patiently, and even seemed to enjoy them. Half a Century At the mention of Calaveras County, the widow suddenly fixed her eyes upon the stranger, and then dropped them on her crotchet work. Round the Block The battle of Prague is a very remarkable example of the danger to which such a crotchet is exposed if properly attacked. The Art of War Man is a jumble of contradictory crotchets, and it would be difficult to find anywhere a financier who lived, as they are all commonly supposed to do, purely for the pleasure of amassing wealth. International Finance That is to say, they will be taken from last year's MSS. and the crotchets moved up one space and the quavers down one space. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 18, 1917 But the noun which this author supplies, the meaning which he guesses that he had, he here very improperly stows away within a pair of crotchets. The Grammar of English Grammars Mr. Minford, aside from this absurd crotchet, may have possessed real mechanical genius. Round the Block This was an entirely new legal crotchet, but the federal government was then young, and jurisdictions had not been determined as clearly as has since been the case. The Crater Contributions stopped; Parliament gave merely enough money for routine expenses; the trustees lost their zeal but not their crotchets; the colony went from bad to worse. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime The antipathy to Scotland and the Scotch already noticed was one of Johnson's most notorious crotchets. Samuel Johnson Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet. Heroes of the Telegraph Then of these "statesmen," most clung, if not to self-interest, to personal crotchets. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire As for the modern crotchet that men yielded no natural right to government, but were to receive all and return nothing, the governor, in plain language, was not fool enough to believe it. The Crater Whatever honest, commonplace affection was in the man came out in a simple way to this Lois, who ruled his sick whims and crotchets in such a quiet, sturdy fashion. Margret Howth, a Story of To-day In truth, his Jacobitism was by this time, whatever it had once been, nothing more than a humorous crotchet, giving opportunity for the expression of Tory prejudice. Samuel Johnson He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and tomorrow. Walden You would not like, for a stupid crotchet, to ruin poor Radie, I fancy.' Wylder's Hand They have, I admit, a crust of cynicism which might lead to that impression, and not unjustly, but underneath the parrot's crotchets there beats a great and benevolent heart. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Your friend's notion of my life has put a crotchet in my head of sketching it in some future epistle to you. The Letters of Robert Burns "What silly crotchet is uppermost, now, in that mystified brain of thine, Deacon Hollister?" The Spy If he had either prejudices or crotchets on any point, I never discovered them. In the Valley The remainder was—the vicar would clearly understand—one of those ridiculous pedantries of law, upon which our system of crotchets and fictions insisted. Wylder's Hand He was himself half inclined to suspect the correctness of his fancy in such matters, and often rallies himself on his gimcracks and crotchets in both verse and prose…. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Clement," said Mr. Balderby, "you are an excellent fellow; but you certainly must have got some romantic crotchet in your head, or you could never have thought of writing such a letter as this. Henry Dunbar A Novel He deserved condign punishment for his testy crotchets. Villette What if this edifice of horror and suspicion is a mere collection of crotchets—the nervous fancies of a hypochondriacal bachelor? Lady Audley's Secret Under his direction they had often rushed forward to the footlights, pouring into the helpless mass before them repeated volleys of explosive crotchets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Divorce for incompatibility of temper remained his private crotchet, or obtained converts only among his fellow-sufferers, who, however numerous, did not form a body important enough to enforce by clamour their demand for relief. Milton Commissionaires returned with their crotchets on their backs. L'Assommoir Oh, you would laugh could you but know half M. Emanuel's crotchets and eccentricities! Villette However, sensible as he was, he had many prejudices and crotchets. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Besides, he has a silly crotchet in his head now. The Puritans In his comedies he produces the strangest whims, caprices, and crotchets, by which he probably points to definite persons. Shakspere and Montaigne And poor Janet is shut in a good deal of the time with me, and suffers because of my crotchets. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause Arrived in that town, he at once betook himself to the docks, to examine the American shipping, when a new crotchet entered his brain, born of his old sea reminiscences. Redburn. His First Voyage He pretended to score down an air as the poet played it, but put down crotchets and semi-breves at random. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Before he had even learned to write, he continued to cipher crotchets and quavers on scraps of paper, which he tore from the household account-books. Jean-Christophe, Volume I The rhythm which dominates this scene is a development of the preceding triplet rhythm and must be taken quite strictly—3-4 time, the first two crotchets being divided into triplet quavers, the last into two. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama Well, but, Morton, I hope thou hast got that crotchet clear out of thy mind, and prithee now don't talk of it when thou comest down to see me. Devereux — Complete Well, but, Morton, I hope thou hast got that crotchet clear out of thy mind, and prithee now /don't/ talk of it when thou comest down to see me. Devereux — Volume 03 Kate, who did not know a crotchet from a semiquaver, grew frightened at this talk of trying over accompaniments, and tried to stammer out some apologies and excuses. A Mummer's Wife He insisted on introducing no crotchets of his own, and allowed Sir Gregory all the credit of the Commission. The Three Clerks In spite of all crotchets, he was not a bad fellow, and not likely to make a good lawyer. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War Not one of these earthquake-specialists, in fact, but has his Achilles heel: a mental crotchet or physical imperfection to mar the worldly perspective. Alone He is a man with opinions of his own, and all sorts of crotchets and fads. Rujub, the Juggler I fear no man, nor his temper, nor crotchets. Erema — My Father's Sin Now what new crotchet has got into your head? A Terrible Secret The widow Keswick has as many cranks and crotchets in her head as there are seeds in a tobacco pod; but this is the queerest and the wildest of them all. The Late Mrs. Null Good enough for him for having such a crotchet in his head. Between Whiles "What is the crotchet?" she asked, in a low tone, after being silent for some time. Rujub, the Juggler So it is that many a man carries about a burden of wrong notions all his life long—crotchets, whims, fancies, prejudices, which at last become fixed ideas. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism There is also some comfort to be found in reflecting upon all the whims and crotchets which had their day and have now utterly vanished. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature But after all these deductions, we remain of the opinion that Mr. White has given us the best edition hitherto published, and we do not like him the less for an occasional crotchet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 The last bar is not complete without adding the letter A, which begins the first line, and then it consists of a quaver, a crotchet, a quaver, a crotchet, two quavers. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. He is as full of personal eccentricities as he is of intellectual crotchets. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Let him alone, his musical head is always full of old crotchets. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 Mrs. Cowan only read newspapers to see the bargains, crotchet patterns, and murders, and after that, she believed their only use was to be put on pantry shelves. Purple Springs Tira, the older people used to remark, was Tommy Blake's own daughter; and truly, she did inherit many of her father's qualities, both good and bad, and not a few of his crotchets and opinions. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 In the last bar there is a quaver, and a rest after it, viz. after the word kindles; and then two quavers and a crotchet. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. By drinking the crotchet perhaps they may get a present now and then-food for themselves, cast-off clothes for their families, and so on. The Open Air But now it began to be discovered that Dr. Kenn, exemplary as he had hitherto appeared, had his crotchets, possibly his weaknesses. The Mill on the Floss A table and bureau, spread with crotchet work, eight chairs and the bed, were all the furniture. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth We cannot think it possible that he should degrade his art by the indulgence of egotism, or crotchets, or petty piques. Lectures and Essays The first and second bars consist each of a crotchet, a quaver, a crotchet, a quaver, a crotchet. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Only, when he was thought of by the Independents as one of their champions, it was always with a recollection that his championship of the common cause was qualified by a peculiar private crotchet. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Gray liked old people, and he was tolerant of their crotchets. Flowing Gold I am glad I have you to talk to instead of the Squire, for he always says, I am chockfull of crotchets, and brimfull of brag. Nature and Human Nature We were talking of reparin a vessel, not strippin' a woman, what under the sun could have put that are crotchet into your head? The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville The third bar consists of a quaver, two crotchets, a quaver, a crotchet. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. The last crotchet about it is that of an African traveller, who holds it to be the peacock of Solomon's navies, completely ignoring the absolute certainty which the South-Indian word "Tukkiim" carries with it. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 And yet, by reason of some crank, crotchet or perverse notion, Embury was unwilling to give his wife what is known as "pin money." Raspberry Jam It was a crotchet of mine,' and I just whipped my arm round her waist, took her up and kissed her afore she knowed where she was. Nature and Human Nature Meissner, as you know, had the bad habit of purposely making his voice tremble at times,—entire quavers and even crotchets, when marked sostenuto,—and this I never could endure in him. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 The former of these is divided by bars, each bar containing three crotchets, or a proportional number of their subdivisions into quavers and semiquavers. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. I do not like writing about my companion's crotchets, because it seems unfair, since one's own shortcomings never find the light unless the other man writes a book too. Spinifex and Sand This was another crotchet of Wagner's friend and probably was born of the story that Beethoven transposed the Bach fugues in all keys. Chopin : the Man and His Music What crotchet have you got in your head now? The Kellys and the O'Kellys From minims to crotchets, and from crotchets to quavers it flowed, and Mac, running with it, gurgled with a new refrain at the quavers. We of the Never-Never In the third bar there is a quaver, a crotchet, and a rest after the crotchet, that is, after the word poles, and two quavers begin the next line. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. There were members for every crotchet and corrupt interest, but there were none for them. The English Constitution Probably he was a man of philological crotchets; he said, for instance, 'pro-spect.' Demos Some say he does not care enough, and others, that he has too many crotchets.' Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 As he would not give in, the countess resigned herself to what she called his "schoolgirl crotchet," and they traveled together to St. Valery-en-Caux, another little seaside place several hours' journey from Ault. The Malady of the Century The fourth bar consists of quavers and crotchets alternately. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Sinclair is as good an apostle of my crotchets as I could be, only he is not in the House. Mr. Hogarth's Will He had become so thoroughly possessed by this crotchet as to pervert everything that he saw, read, or heard, into evidence, of some sort or other, of the truth of his notions. Oak Openings What crotchets," said she, "have you got in your fool's head, I trow? The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle It may be true, as he said, that the language of music "is understood all over the world," but one cannot talk to an orchestra in crotchets and semi-breves. Haydn The common time of musicians is divided into bars, each of which contains four crotchets, or a proportional number of their subdivision into quavers and semiquavers. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. I am sure property is burdened heavily enough without this absurd crotchet for additional spoliation. Mr. Hogarth's Will "Hem; I hardly know that: he has got crotchets about the people I am told." Sybil, or the Two Nations Now he has taken ever so many crotchets into his head. The Duke's Children It was frightful to think that such unhoped-for good fortune should be marred by the absurd crotchets and unwholesome hallucinations by which Mr. Harding allowed himself to be led astray. Barchester Towers Miss Patience found Mrs. Mayo's crotchets a bit trying, but the work was easy and to her liking, and she was, as she said, "right across the way, as you might say, from Luther." Cap'n Eri You will have my uncle's real kindness without his crotchets and his dictatorial manner. Mr. Hogarth's Will He asked for greenbacks, and took them, saying the man in Mexico was a New-Englander, with a head full of crotchets, and preferred greenbacks to gold or drafts. A Double Barrelled Detective Story Yet, she was a character—as full of whims and crotchets as a nut is of meat. The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange I believe you are right, Jenny," said Mr. Hardie, taking the cue so unexpectedly offered him: "he did say some nonsense I could not make head nor tail of; but we all have our crotchets. Hard Cash Unluckily, Lieders had the wrong side of the gift as well as the right; was full of whims and crotchets, and as unpractical as the Christian martyrs. Stories of a Western Town They were not addicted to crotchets, nor to the obtrusive and unseasonable assertion of conscientious scruples. Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 Did you ever know a man of such wonderful crotchets?' The Heir of Redclyffe This crotchet postponed his happiness for some months. Put Yourself in His Place It was frightful to think that such unhoped for good fortune should be marred by the absurd crotchets and unwholesome hallucinations by which Mr Harding allowed himself to be led astray. Barchester Towers I really could not tell; it was a mere accident, the unwitting indication of some crotchets of mine, which had often come into my mind lately. John Halifax, Gentleman Christopher is a genius, and they are always full of crotchets. A Simpleton I call him the tee-totum because, in fact, he was seized with the droll but not altogether irrational crotchet, that he had been converted into a tee-totum. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Raby was bitterly mortified, and I fear he blames me and my crotchets; for he has never been near me since. Put Yourself in His Place At Baireuth our old Father Margraf has his crotchets, his infirmities and outbreaks; takes more and more to liquor; and does always keep us frightfully bare in money. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 She spoke with a fond pride, as she did always, even when arguing against the too Quixotic carrying out of the said crotchets. John Halifax, Gentleman It must be owned he rises into the fantastic here and there; and has crotchets of ultraperfection for his Army, which are not rational at all. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 She had a crotchet, but it was instinct with common sense, and gave pleasure to all who had the honor of her acquaintance. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Humor my crotchet just now, and perhaps I may humor yours a month or two hence. Put Yourself in His Place The apparatus, originally constructed to serve the purpose of the doctor's medical crotchets, was evidently to be put to some other use, of which the doctor himself had probably never dreamed till now. Armadale A single incident will suffice to give you an idea of Tullia's crotchets. A Prince of Bohemia Perhaps the poetic temperament is more liable to such morbid biases, influxes of imaginative crotchet, and mere folly that cannot be cured? History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 They took their work with them, crotchet or knitting; so that this salutary exercise did not in any way diminish the earnings of the week. Other People's Money "It is not a crotchet; it is a fixed idea." The Lesser Bourgeoisie Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty;—and his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the duke had crotchets in him. Measure for Measure Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks; Note, notes, forsooth, and noting! Much Ado about Nothing Why these are very crotchets that he speaks; Notes, notes, forsooth, and nothing! Much Ado about Nothing You can't expect to ride your new crotchet without anybody's trying to stick a nettle under his tail and make him kick you off—especially as we shall all have to go on foot still. Tom Brown's School Days Perhaps some illustration may be derived from the following, passage in South's Sermons, in which I have ventured to supply the words between crotchets that seemed to be wanting to complete the sense. Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete |
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