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I heard all the words and instruments, complete with stereo highs and bass lows to “My Girl,” fluting out of his long but happy face. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z
There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Its horns were a more refined version of what they’d been, fluting out to tight spirals, and the eyes that filled the empty sockets were large and shining. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Immediately, there cascaded from the fluting organ confetti of skittering triplets as the vicar turned to lead the couple down the aisle and the six family members fell in behind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stem signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
A paleo-Indian innovation, this type of fluting exists only in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
The air smelled of ketchup, and a mysterious, fluting voice encouraged us to visit the merchandise kiosk. Identity Crisis: Theater Productions That Refuse to Be Theater 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z
Designs by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe can be seen today in some of the Capitol building’s most elaborate carvings, such as the fluting on interior columns to resemble cornstalks. Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z
His particular forte, with his slightly fluting voice, was for revealing the chink in the armour of middle-class respectability. Richard Pearson obituary 2011-08-02T19:32:58Z
If they looked up, they'd see slim neon wall lights, stylish saucer lamps and a smooth, sloping ceiling with elegant fluting. Rediscovering Birmingham's movie meccas 2010-03-30T15:38:00Z
Now and then came a hollow fluting noise, like someone blowing across a bottle top. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z
Center stage are four Greek columns with tightly curled Ionic capitals and fluting defined by shifts in soft, exquisite colors. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z
Bronze chokers with twisted fluting excavated at Nea Philadelphia are similar to scores of others from Western Iran — of which the authors make no mention in the important exhibition book. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z
Often, her fluting or tapering forms travel through one another from inside to outside and back again. Is this the most beautiful show of the year? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z
Some of the material has an obvious east-Asian slant – women sing Chinese songs in high fluting voices, smiling and nodding in perfect unison. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-21T14:41:32Z
The audience is called to order by the flutings and shouts of a Norwegian folk singer who blesses the land its offerings. This Library Has New Books by Major Authors, but They Can’t Be Read Until 2114 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z
Her strange, fluting voice twines elegantly around sparse arrangements of piano, acoustic guitar and the charango lute. Ólöf Arnalds: Sudden Elevation – review 2013-02-03T00:05:11Z
Press one stack of the rectangles into each well of the muffin pan, folding or fluting the edges slightly to make an attractive cup. Make mini quiches for a fun, flexible family meal 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z
There’s a top and a bottom, and between them is a bunch of ridged or diagonally reinforced filler called “fluting.” Cardboard Has Taken Over Our Lives. Where Does It Come From? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z
A couple of employees are in the music business, which helps explain the aural entertainment; dinner tastes better with Herbie Mann fluting through “Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty.” Review | Little Donna’s in Baltimore mixes old and new, with charming results 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z
The asteroid that brought that cacophony to a cataclysmic end made room for the expansion of fluting birds. Earth’s Sonic Diversity, Secret Bird Scents, Pandemic-Inspired Sci-Fi, and More 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z
Zegler, whose petite frame and childlike expressions give Maria an extra air of innocence, possesses a fluting soprano that is captivating and of a piece with her character’s naivete. Review | ‘West Side Story’ is an urgent, utterly beautiful revival 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z
For Honoré, personally, parietal art includes paintings and engravings made on rock, but would exclude markings like finger fluting or the Quesang prints, and some other archaeologists hold the same view. Kids’ Fossilized Handprints May Be Some of the World’s Oldest Art 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z
That fluting is what gives a cardboard box its protective quality; without its flutes, corrugate wouldn’t be corrugate at all — it would just be containerboard. Cardboard Has Taken Over Our Lives. Where Does It Come From? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z
If they listened closely, they might hear the fluting of the wood thrush and the voices of worm-eating and hooded warblers. Land trust’s `challenge’ aims to get Hoosiers back outdoors 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z
In detailing the enormity of the Olympieion’s scale, Diodorus wrote that the fluting of the outer columns was big enough for a man to stand inside. From the Rubble of Atlases, a Colossus Will Rise 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z
Mirianashvili opted for a standard drinking glass, the kind with fluting at the base and a wide band near the rim. The Culinary Muse of the Caucasus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z
Bennett compared the prints to finger flutings — a kind of prehistoric art made by people running their fingers over soft surfaces on cave walls. Kids’ Fossilized Handprints May Be Some of the World’s Oldest Art 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z
International Paper customers choose from a fluting guide that extends from A-flute at the thickest to so-called microflutes like E and F. Cardboard Has Taken Over Our Lives. Where Does It Come From? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z
Grant based her character on her own mother and aunt, ladies with high, fluting voices and a “wonderful, ridiculous part to them.” Oscar-winner Lee Grant talks classic films, the blacklist and being a female director in Hollywood 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z
"He is a tidy little stage performer, light on his feet, the voice fluting but clear." After Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is Daniel Radcliffe ready for Hamlet? - BBC News 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z
As he moved, a bit of gilt fluting dipped forward out of the gloom of the chimney-corner. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z
Both children and adults are thought to have participated in finger fluting, and similarly, Bennett said that the Quesang prints should also be considered art. Kids’ Fossilized Handprints May Be Some of the World’s Oldest Art 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z
"All alone?" asked the tenor, fluting with his voice, as he always did when he was speaking to a woman. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z
A certain architectural character is given to chairs by cutting flutings down the legs, or by borrowing other slight details from architecture. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z
Even the slate-gray deer-mouse, with his white belly, feared not my little friends, the winds; for oft I heard him, in the creamy October moonlight, tuning his tiny elfin song to the night wind's fluting. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z
Upon wild mountain-slopes where are heard the fluting notes of a certain shy bird that rarely comes near habitations, the chaparral pea often makes dense, impenetrable thickets. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
The high, close-fitting corsage is entirely formed of narrow folds placed close together; the opening up the front being concealed by a fluting of ribbon, gradually narrowing toward the lower part of the waist. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z
The armor of these childish figures is daintily wrought, with tender touches of ruffs and cuffs, scallops and flutings and rosettes. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z
If we look at one of the soaring pilasters and follow up its lines, we shall see that each of the flutings is prolonged in a rib of the fan vaulting. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
For a long time we stood silent; the village slept below us; the stillness of the dawn remained unbroken, save by a golden-robin's note, fluting from a spectral elm. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z
From the wet pools began the cold and melancholy fluting of the frogs, the voice of solitude, and under the plangency of it she found the tears running down her cheeks. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z
Beyond it, above the woods where in spring the fluting blackbird sings of love and the delights of a mossy nest in the sheltered vale, rises Dale Hill, with its old toll-house. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z
H. C. is informed that his method of fluting reamers is not new.—C. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z
The beautiful fluting round the clerestory windows is still more noteworthy, and also the arcading beneath those of the south aisle both within and without. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z
In all these types of cell, sal-ammoniac and zinc are used, and by corrugating the carbon, fluting it, or making concentric cylinders, special merits are obtained in each case. Hawkins Electrical Guide, Number One Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A Progressive Course of Study for Engineers, Electricians, Students and Those Desiring to acquire a Working Knowledge of Electricity and its Applications 2011-12-24T03:07:54.823Z
As will be readily seen, this process, whilst open to many objections, lends itself to shapes that are refined and delicate and to those that have flutings or raised ornament. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z
There was a blackbird came and perched half-way up a neighbouring spruce tree and began fluting. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z
The flutings of the pillar, being perpendicular, emphasize this fact. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z
Yet will a breath of Spring homeward convoying attend us, And the mellow flutings of passionate Philomel.  The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z
Each column has a different design above the fluting which runs half-way up them all. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z
Under relief, we group all modelling,—raised or sunk, embossments, flutings, mouldings, feet, handles, or applied figures. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z
I could play now, and we spent such a joyful night, and dawn was breaking and the blackbirds up and fluting again long before the merry party broke up. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z
To your shrill flutings I could listen When on the grass-blades dewdrops glisten, And morn is ripe. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z
The drum to which this fragment belonged was 4 feet 3 inches in diameter, and had 40 flutings. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z
It is all over Richmond, Miss Meade," her voice rang out with fluting sweetness, "that David Blackburn kept Letty's condition from Angelica because he was so crazy about her being in those tableaux. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z
Here and there, boys in groups were playing their favorite games or fluting and yodeling, while the groups of pretty girls walked more demurely. Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls 2011-09-11T02:00:11.207Z
The blackbird has been talked of as “fluting in the grove.” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z
The frescoes are very delicate, and on the left are boxes all along, which add much to the beauty of the hall, with their scarlet and gold flutings. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z
Fragment of the capital of one of the Doric columns of the pronaos or opisthodomos, including the lower part of the echinus, and the upper part of the flutings. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z
Singing he was, or fluting, all the day; He was as fresh as is the month of May. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z
The framework is of bronze fastened at the corners with copper fluting, and the gold and silver work is fixed to this foundation by means of rivets. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z
The garden had turned into enchanted woods, and Pan was fluting there. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z
When the only sounds audible in the clearing were the chirping of the crickets and the fluting of the birds, a thin, yellow face with watery eyes peered cautiously through the cane. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z
Below the mouldings are the tops of the flutings. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z
A light breeze fluttered the figured-silk curtains, a blue-bottle buzzed tentatively to and fro outside, and birds were fluting in the trees of the small park and splashing joyously in the fountain. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z
The fluting of the blackbirds in Knockdane only seemed the more mellow for the rain, and skylarks mounted up in rapturous jubilee. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z
Perhaps the fluting of Pan had something to do with it. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z
That night, by her persuasion, my friend sat in the upper wings and dispensed flutings of great joy as she ascended to her rest. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z
Fragment of the capital of one of the Ionic columns of the interior of the cella, with a part of the fluting. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z
And I would have a strawberry tart, with little flutings in the crust. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z
This is one of the last examples of fluting, as applied to columns, the process disappearing generally with the introduction of pointed architecture, only to reappear at the Renaissance. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z
A man hears a bird-like fluting; he wonders what sweet thoughts find expression in such sweet notes. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z
April again! with its wonder of gladness,     April with its haunting joy, and swift-stinging tears,— Month of mist and music, and the old moon-madness,     Month of magic fluting, the spirit only hears,—                 "April again!" The Ballad of the Quest 2011-07-06T02:00:44.593Z
Light, easy rhymes; old dresses, frail and light; Love in a park, fluting an ancient tune. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
From the green depths came the fluting of a lone wood-thrush. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z
The persistence of this fluting is doubtless explained by the influence of the many specimens of Roman architecture which Rheims had preserved. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z
The drone of hummers, fluting of birds in the patio garden set her soft musings to pleasant music, and she looked up with sudden vexation at the jangle of his spurs. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z
In the tone of this question there was a something as if the fluting was not quite so much of an enjoyment to him as to the musician himself. 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
Light, easy rhymes; old dresses, frail and light; Love in a park, fluting an ancient tune. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
Strange flutings of the weirdest and most distressing kind were often heard at night. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z
The elemental lines of oxygen are not indeed seen in stellar spectra, but that the element is present is shown by the flutings of titanium oxide which distinguish stars like Antares. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z
The fluting of the column, which I doubt not was the Greek symbol of the bark of the tree, was imitative in its origin, and feebly resembled many caniculated organic structures. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z
It broadened out into a clear fluting and entered upon an old dance tune. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z
It made us laugh, it made us sing, and I never heard on any other spot of earth such melodious fluting as the winds of Texas made all around us. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z
The most striking difference was the absence of the characteristic fluting. Texas Arrowheads Dial Back Arrival of Humans in America 2011-03-24T18:28:57Z
The flutings and columns in front of the British Museum are begrimed as if liquid mud had been poured over them. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z
The Doric flutings were of irregular number—the Venetian mouldings were unchangeable. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z
It was never completed, for the fluting of its columns still remains unfinished. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z
I hear the fluting of the wind, and the tinkling of guitars. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z
This piping, fluting, thrilling, this showering stream of sweet elemental song and dance was not of the earth, but of the air. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z
To this accompaniment we, as Tennyson says, "moved from the brink like some full-breasted swan, That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy web." Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z
They were all united to a common surface at one side, but at the other they formed a series of flutings of exceeding beauty. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc.
A song sparrow was singing out by the road, and the thin, sweet flutings of a Peabody came from the pasture. The Idyl of Twin Fires
In another church, about 15 m. south of Oviedo, Santa Christina de Leon, all the attached staffs are decorated with spiral fluting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil"
Once in the woods she had heard a shepherd, Heard a reed in a golden glade; Followed, and clad in the skin of a leopard, Found him fluting within the shade. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems
In 1755 and 1756 he is singing, fluting, and otherwise "beating" his way through Europe, whence he returns with a mythical M. B. degree. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16
Near the Hospice, but at the opposite side of the Aar, rises a mountain-wall of hard granite, on which the flutings and groovings are magnificently preserved. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc.
Every line of the fluting on the columns, and the carving on architrave and capital, was fresh as if of yesterday. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898
The small shafto supporting these capitals are of infinite variety of design, with spirals, chevrons, fluting and vertical mouldings of many kinds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil"
It is practised 957 extensively for the ornamentation of goldsmith and silversmith work, electro-plate and similar objects, being employed to produce bold flutings and bosses, and in another manner utilized for imitating engraved surfaces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine"
What this young Irishman, fluting it through Europe some five years before, had not learned about the 'Condition of Polite Learning' in its principal countries, might fill a ponderous folio. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16
The pieces are generally very thin and are either perfectly plain or bear flutings or simple wavy patterns incised in the paste. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"
"I wish I were a girl bird," said Dorothy dreamily, as she listened to the outpourings of a blackbird fluting from a neighbouring tree. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall
But still the fluting piped and men were fain To sing and ring the bells, they knew not why Save that their hearts were in an ecstasy. King Cole
Encouraged by this first success, he proceeded in his various attempts; and the genius which thus could form a clock, in time formed a fluting automaton. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12
The columns were painted red at their bases, and the color changed above into blue and gold on the fluting and capitals, and was dispersed over the trellis-work covering the porticos. Sónnica
Her face was finely chiselled, and framed with light hair waving from its parting in curves regular as the flutings of a shell. The House of Fulfilment
Short coulées had eaten the bluff slopes into flutings, and spilled small rivulets upon the plain. The Plow-Woman
Then from his wooden flute his piping thrilled, Then all was tense, and then the leaping fluting Clamoured as flowering clamours for the fruiting. King Cole
The cupping is caused by not adding a sufficient number and the fluting by adding too many. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1
The Italian 346 round tile is itself decoration enough, a deep and rich fluting, which all artists delight in; this, however, is fitted exclusively for low pitch of roofs. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)
Whene’er I buckle on my pack And foot it gaily in the track, O pleasant gauger, long since dead, I hear you fluting on ahead. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25)
All sounds to silver rhythm ran: Came flutings as from piping Pan In purpled hills of Arcady! Ioläus The man that was a ghost
A thick tent of clouds stretched overhead, and the miniature box in the garden looked like flutings of crape on the pebbled walk, which had been washed clean and glistening during the night. The Romance of a Plain Man
It plays at ball in old, blue Chinese gardens, And shakes wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples, Amid the broken flutings of white pillars. Some Imagist Poets An Anthology
The voice rang out clear and fluting like a boy's. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court
Maria worked hard at her braiding—that was open to anybody's observation; but there were less obvious flutings and ironings down in the kitchen, and adjusting of ribbons and flowers in secret consultations up-stairs. What She Could
You’re a Pagan—so am I. So the fluting on the hill Passed and died, and all was still. A line-o'-verse or two
The doors swung together behind us, and we descended the dark staircase, with the piercing soprano voices fluting in our ears. The Romance of a Plain Man
I can remember my young aunt; and how pretty she was as she sat at the piano, and sang and played to his fluting. The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse
From out the maple’s leafy dark, The fluting of the meadow lark! Poems
These columns are enriched with zigzag, lattice, spiral, and vertical flutings. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel
I This is something that I heard, As the fluting of a bird, On a certain drowsy day, When my pipe was under way. A line-o'-verse or two
Every fluting of the great valley was in itself a considerable cañon, into which we descended, climbing down the scored rocks, and swinging from block to block, until we reached the level of the pines. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers
It was a fair day, and the city square was full of white canopies, lined with splendid flutings of pink. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales
In the pilaster projections of the frieze there are flush outline ornaments taking the form of a shield, while other graceful182 outline patterns running through the flutings adorn the upper half of the pilasters proper. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia
The body of the vase 98 begins with wide flutings between the tops of which are shells and seaweed. Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution]
Some of the fluting and other ornamentation is little short of marvellous in point of design and finish. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III.
In mature specimens the growth is horizontal, spreading fan-like from the stem, undulating with radiating flutings. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth
They were ornamented with oak carvings and fluting, painted windows, and other such decorations. Richard III Makers of History
Again it may be hand-carved with vertical flutings, continuous, as in the parlor at Upsala, or in groups of three or more in alternation with an incised flower pattern, as in the Rex house. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia
An approximate coincidence between the chief nebular line and a "fluting" of magnesium having been alleged by Lockyer in support of his meteoritic hypothesis of nebular constitution, it became of interest to ascertain its reality. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
It is beautifully fluted throughout its entire length, the lower third having an extra raised line between the fluting. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III.
So we dipped it as we tripped it Southward with the fluting gale. Sprays of Shamrock
The lip and base have the favorite ovolo moulding; the body has two rows of fluting separated by a transverse band, charged with leaves, and with a swan in the centre. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Least pleasing of all is the fluting of the frieze portion of the entablature sections with three sets of drillings suggestive of festoons. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia
The prismatic flutings of the one, and the broader zones of the other, are as if stereotyped—they undergo, in their fundamental outlines, no modification, though varying in relative intensity from star to star. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
Round their middle each had a white rope, about as thick as a hand, cutting the flutings of the robe; and where the head disappeared, a white penitent's hood thrown backward. The Spirit of Rome
When he glanced round to see Anthony so still, he stopped his fluting in the midst of a bar. Anthony Lyveden
When near enough to enable one to distinguish the upright flutings formed by its closely joined pentagonal basaltic prisms, the illusion vanishes. The Book of the National Parks
A fine-scale dentil course lends interest to the pedimental cornice, while the frieze portions of the entablature section of the pilasters are elaborated by flutings and drillings, the latter suggestive of a festoon. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia
This stroke would run a wide fluting of deficit right through the middle of it. Sundry Accounts
A great impressionist, this smoke-smudger and wiper-out of detail, this believer in masses and simple surfaces, this destroyer of gingerbread ornaments, petty mouldings, and cheap flutings! Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914
He must give us more of his own “clear fluting.” Spare Hours
If you have any pretty-shaped little tin dishes, without fluting, to mould and bake them in, they are very little trouble to make. Choice Cookery
Most of the lintels take the shape of a flat, gauged arch with flutings simulating mortar joints that radiate from an imaginary center below and mark off voussoirs and a keystone. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia
Above, in the flutings of the column, which consists of yellow, grayish sandstone, are placed three rows of Danish, Austrian and French cannon, captured in the different battles fought with those nations. Shepp's Photographs of the World
There was silence for a time, broken by Flora’s low sobbing; broken, too, by the sweet, mellow fluting of a blackbird in the garden shrubbery. As We Sweep Through The Deep
One day, in a draw of the prairie, he noticed a western meadow-lark which was unusually lyrical, having the skill of a past-master in the art of trilling and gurgling and fluting. Birds of the Rockies
This chapel is supported by four marble columns about nine braccia high, made with double flutings in the Corinthian manner, with the bases and capitals variously carved and with double members. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
In both, vertical flutings are depended upon chiefly for decoration, ornamental patterns being formed by flush sections where the cutting of the flutes is interrupted. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia
A blackbird was fluting after a shower, for the sky was transient blue with the dark rags of the squall flying fast over the hill towards London. Old Junk
In fact, the large fig-tree presents in its flutings a natural excavation of the shape of a man. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul
"Well, now," she said, "when all Florence is luting and fluting for the queen of beauty, the king of beasts walks warden by her side." The God of Love
The floor was yellow ochre; the ceiling was sky-blue; the cornices were scarlet, with flutings of blue and yellow, and, underneath, a broad belt of fruit and foliage, executed in an extremely arabesque style. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
Alice smiled but went on fluting the edge of an apple pie with a fork. Chicken Little Jane
That wonderful tea-rose marble, with its stains of burnt sienna marking the flutings of endless broken columns, needs no varnishing of moisture to enhance its beauty. The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht
The side walls were solid, with windows, the frames of which were bound together to represent a kind of fluting, and which had a very ornamented appearance. Old Jack
"Miss Kendall will not disturb the class, I am sure, if she realizes that her humming is a source of annoyance," she said, her own really musical voice fluting in melodious minor cadences. Miss Pat at School
The central pillar of this chapel, with the curved fluting in the column and the quaintly grotesque devices of the figures carved on the capital, is well worthy of close examination. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See
The outer jambs, as also the broad central massive pier, are slightly fluted, and in some of these flutings is a bar in relief. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
The channeling or fluting carries the eye of the spectator upwards to the capital which swells outwards to support the heavy straight line of the cornice. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
The flutings are due to compounds of carbon. Lectures on Stellar Statistics
It belongs to the top of a column, and has the same number of flutings,—twenty-four. Pagan and Christian Rome
Beneath and above the latter were panels still smaller, placed horizontally, and outlined with white curlicues and flutings. The Lion's Mouse
I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of a garden in the clear autumn sunshine. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
Above the cornice, the grooves of the triglyphs carry on the lines of fluting from the columns towards the roof. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
Encouraged by this first success, he proceeded in his various attempts; and the genius, which thus could form a clock, in time formed a fluting automaton. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
It was not a nose snubbed at the extremity, gross, heavy, or carbuncled, or fluting. Jacob Faithful
And—oh, joy, oh triumph!—it did pull out as she pressed her sharp little nails under the white fluting. The Lion's Mouse
In one gallery the roof, as the light glimmered upon it, was one beautiful fret-work of ancient vegetation, being carved, as it were, into knotted stems full of beautiful flutings. Son Philip
The rush of the cattle on the drive was fainter than the sigh of the wind, and the fluting of the Ute lover was of another world. The Eagle's Heart
The curious foldings of the suture the one into p. 17the other, the alternate flutings or grooves, and the curved form of my specimen, are much easier expressed by the pencil than by words. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Facet.—The narrow plain surface, as A, between the fluting of a column. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations
In the shadowy depths below a wood-thrush was fluting his last notes for that day. In Happy Valley
The fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it. The Ten Books on Architecture
Listen to the shepherds fluting, dream, or, better, live, as you are grandly capable of living, under the old olives of Sicily. The Call of the Blood
I am tired of the tune upon the triangle and I am ready for softer flutings. Journeys to Bagdad
He suddenly drops his voice to a shuddering whisper, and the next moment is fluting like a blackbird. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
Little angel faces and reedy flutings stood out round the fire-place of the children's room. A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
This she repeated again and again in the velvet-soft fluting of her voice. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
He passed down into the shadows of the trees, and gradually the airy rapture of his fluting and the tinkle of the goat-bells died away towards Marechiaro. The Call of the Blood
The skirt had heavy flutings of satin around the bottom, and the lace flounces were looped up at the sides p. 144with bands of the most beautiful pinks, roses, lilies, forget-me-nots, and other flowers. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
Oh, hurry! hurry! here they come, The band in front with the big bass drum And blaring bugles,—there they are, On golden thrones in a golden car, Tooting and fluting, oh, how grand! Child Songs of Cheer
Little streams chuckled through the underbrush, and from the fusion of woodland whisperings bird notes detached themselves, soft flutings and liquid runs, that gave another expression to the morning's blithe mood. The Emigrant Trail
For what purpose of spite or interest were those vast columns—in the very flutings of which a man can stand with ease—felled like 336 forest pines? Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
This was no high-pitched fluting from aliens deprived of their sport, but a hissing nightmare cry. Star Born
Were man to disappear, annihilated by his own foolish errors, the festival of the life-bringing season would be no less worthily observed, celebrated by the fluting of the yellow-billed songster. Social Life in the Insect World
Slipping her arm in his, she led him through the orchard, where the bluebirds were fluting blissfully in the apple-trees. The Miller Of Old Church
It pierced clear and arresting through the fairy flutings of "the horns of elfland" that were all she had heretofore heard. The Emigrant Trail
On examining the fragments which remain, each fluting measured a foot, that is, eight inches right across. The Diary of an Ennuyée
There were four of them in the group ahead, escorted by two of the males, and the high fluting of their voices resounded along the corridor as might the cheeping of birds. Star Born
I hear thy fluting; at my shoulder there I see the sharp ears through the tangled hair, And birds and bunnies at thy music mute. More Songs From Vagabondia
Constantly tiny wings flashed in and out the field of vision with insistences of sweet flutings. The Debtor A Novel
The adornments of the walls consisted of simple flutings. The Wonders of Pompeii
"Parched corn in my pocket—lambs," came fluting back to me from the shadows. The Golden Bird
The starching, the fluting, the ironing, all take precious hours that might be employed upon some of the must-haves. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
Fantastic flutings become "an organ," and a level rock "an altar." Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
The fluting of the author is recalled by the description of the hero's flute-playing: "It is like walking in the woods among wild flowers just before you go into some vast cathedral." Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
In many places, the flutings are economically preserved by means of moulds that fill them in the lower part of the columns. The Wonders of Pompeii
Deep vines and torrents and glimmering haze, And sheep-bells tinkling on mountain ways, And fluting shepherds make sweet the days. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses
A sort of braking contrivance operates on the carbon rollers in such a way as to prevent their journals from lying on the lower points in the flutings of the beams. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
Max sighed over the flounces and flutings and lace and ribbons, and talked about "unadorned beauty;" and then, when Kitty exhibited results, went into rhapsodies of wonder and admiration. Winter Evening Tales
A word, a grasp, she was leaning alone over the old stone wall, the birds were piping and fluting about her, and Ray was gone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
Agnese there are two columns of this marble, the flutings of which are remarkable for their cabled divisions. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
The stir of bees, the scent of honey-locust just opening, drifted in, and the slow solemn clangor of church bells, and lilts and flutings and calls and whistlings from the tree-tops. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
The chief cause of these disturbances may be ascribed to the fact that the carbon rollers in their journals, rest loose in the flutings of the beam, which is fastened to the sound plate. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
A ribbon of bacon lay in crisp flutings across it. The Poor Little Rich Girl
Everywhere was the plash of running water, now and then came distant flutings of birds. 'Doc.' Gordon
They are forty-eight feet in height and nearly five feet in diameter, while their flutings are nine inches across. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
Mary Byrd was talking as usual in high fluting notes which drowned the gentle ripple of Margaret's voice. One Man in His Time
Up to the first balcony, the flutings are alternately semicircular and angular; in the second story they are all semicircular, and in the third all angular. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
The deep fluting, the wrinkled folds, and cavities, over and through which the green and silvery water rushed back into the sea, rivaled the most exquisite sculpture. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader
Ah, my dear Miss Churchill!" a fluting voice filled the large room, "we were very nearly going back to Paris without once coming to see you. The Inheritors
His Grace, in a post-prandial speech, observed that the Salvation Army came "fluting" among us, but he thought that the Army's success would be as "fleeting" as it was "fluting." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892
The fluting was sometimes filled with metal husks at top and bottom, leaving a plain stretch between. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
From the third balcony to the top, the building is composed chiefly of white marble; and the surface is without the deep flutings. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
I saw some amusing ones recently, made of gay Austrian silks, lined with astonishing colors and bound with puffings and flutings of ribbon of still other colors. The House in Good Taste
It was May again, and the pipes of Pan were fluting the ancient songs in the ancient racial fields of the memory. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage
No; don't speak—just walk quietly and"—jerking his thumb in the direction of the fluting nightingales—"listen to that. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
The nightingale on him sings slumber down; The nightingale rewakes him, fluting sweet, When shines the lovely red Of morning through the trees. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
His own favourite blackbird had awakened him, and he lay for a long while listening to its mellow fluting, till his conscience reproached him for lying so long a-bed on such a morning. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
The fluting on children's frocks and the polish on shirts is something wonderful, and the young nun who superintends the concern seemed to be a real enthusiast in the matter. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
"Oh, Gabriella always had taste; I'll ask her about mine," Florrie tossed back gaily in the high fluting notes which expressed so perfectly the brilliant, if slightly metallic, quality of her personality. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage
The Aurignacian is a smaller flake industry, with many lumps more or less conical, and often with careful parallel flaking or fluting. How to Observe in Archaeology
Some cut deep and square, others with flutings and bevelings, or curves, but each helps in the great work of planing off, in some way, the rocky masses over which they move. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter
We got several obsidian maces or lance-heads—one about ten inches long—which were taper from base to point, and covered with taper flutings; and there are other things which present great difficulties. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
Surely these distant flutings were the pipes o' Pan! A Spinner in the Sun
There were more or less heavy flutings, icicles hung down pointed and tufted, and the passage led inward still farther, they knew not how far; but they did not go on. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
Soon, ah, soon the shy birds Will be at their fluting, And the morning planet Rise above the garden; 10 For there is a measure Set to all things mortal. Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics
When the flutings are in oak, in rich mahogany, or painted white, these husks are gilt, and the effect is chaste and pleasing. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time
Arabel meekly followed these, and saved her whole, fresh soul to pour out upon the flutings and finishing. We Girls: a Home Story
A robin had waked to answer it, for the Piper's fluting was wondrously like his own voice. A Spinner in the Sun
No! a sharper sound Would wake you not; Not the sweetest fluting Tease you back to thought. Poems New and Old
Then follow hours of dreamless sleep, till one wakes again upon a bright world, with the thrushes fluting in the shrubbery and the morning sun flooding the room. The Silent Isle
By each side of the backbone he had three chamferings, or flutings, that were distinguished by inflected interstices. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884
Their digestion finished, the polypi had begun to swim around, and were now horizontal skeins, fluting the tank with elegance. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
And when he felt that fluting wind blow warm and cool together on his cheek, the chimneys mocked him, and the town was hideous. Master Skylark
It is rich in flutings, pyramids, and canopied niches, in which stand six statues crowned, five of which hold globes in their hands, and the sixth a church. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829
What sad undertones, mournful murmurs of the deep that receives the drifted leaves, mingle with the spring's soft flutings and all the voices that proclaim the season of joy! Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
A mellow fluting broke the hush,—and Caruso was in song! Polly and the Princess
The plume of Vesuvius was less white than in the morning; its nebulous column, streaked with reddish flutings by the dying light, appeared to be reflecting its interior fire. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
The first story, 95 feet in height, consists of twenty-four faces in the form of convex flutings, alternately semicircular and rectangular, built of alternate courses of marble and red sandstone. Modern India
Then while we sat upon the height afar Came twilight, like a lover late from war, With soft winds fluting to his evening star. The Poems of Sidney Lanier
I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of a garden in the clear autumn sunshine.  Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
The silver fluting of the frogs came from marshes and ponds, over fields where seeds were beginning to stir with life and thrill to the sunshine and rain that had drifted over them. Anne of the Island
She wanted to see the dew on the grass and on the ragged flower borders and to hear the tender, broken fluting of birds in the trees. The Shuttle
It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder; It is a linnet's fluting after rain. Main Street and Other Poems
An unknown bird sat, far below, in the orange grove and, as if drunk with light and fragrance, chirped sleepily and ended with a fluting tone. The Indian Lily and Other Stories
The exquisite voice rose and fell in silvery cadence, the soft notes fluting out through the vast space and reaching straight to Amarilly's heart which was beating in unison to the music. Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley
For, floating upwards across the spaces came a sound of simple, old-time piping—the fluting music of a little reed. The Centaur
A soft shower had fallen, and after its passing, the sun coming through the light clouds, there had broken forth again in the trees brief trills and calls and fluting of bird notes. The Shuttle
They consisted of a holder of steel, with flutings and facets. The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced
This may be done by fluting the edge with the fingers or, as shown in Fig. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies
The flowing gestures of this young man, his fluting accents, poetic eyes, and modestly ingratiating moustache, the preciosity of his taste in dress, assorted singularly with an austere devotion to duty rare if unaffected. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
It dropped down through the air, perhaps, or came from the forest edge, or possibly the sunrise brought it—this ancient little sound of fluting on those Pipes men call the Pipes of Pan…. The Centaur
Keep fluting and crimping irons, a small iron for ruffles, and a polishing-iron. Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife
Even some of their colour was preserved, and all their delicate fluting and fibre, in the fine clay. The Naturalist on the Thames
"Really," said his wife, looking up from her fluting iron, "I think you had best go to bed." L'Assommoir
She was like the fluting of a bird; she was clear melody. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution
It was the exquisite little piping on a reed—the ancient fluting of the everlasting Pan…. The Centaur
Ethelyn's was of blue, and Patty's of pink silk, and they were trimmed with innumerable lace flutings and garlands of flowers. Patty Fairfield
It sounded over the fields, to die away in a low, hushed fluting. The Path of Life
I never saw anyone who did up laces and embroideries as you do, and the fluting is simply perfect; the only trouble is a little too much starch, my dear. L'Assommoir
It was impossible to hear the little fluting sounds that were drowned in it all. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
Who that reads "The Traveller" and "The Deserted Village" does not hear in their pensive music the far-away fluting of that kind-hearted wanderer, and see the lovely idyl of that simple life? Literary and Social Essays
It grew and swelled until at last it seemed as if through a myriad pipes Pan the earth spirit was fluting his magical creative song. Imaginations and Reveries
The frogs croaked, and in the meadows the melodious fluting of the toads arose. Jean-Christophe, Volume I
It had little creases on the outside, "flutings," Mother said, like the pleats in her dress. Half-Past Seven Stories
The reason that the double fluting call of the cuckoo is not mimicked by other birds is that they can't; because that peculiar sound is not in their register. Birds in Town and Village
Snow, too, lay in folds and patches of every form on blunt, rounded ridges in curves, arrowy lines, dashes, and narrow ornamental flutings among the summit peaks and in broad radiating wings on smooth slopes. Travels in Alaska
Fireplace.–Large open stone fireplace decorated all over with flutings and carved stone. Mr. Pim Passes By
I wonder who is fluting under that tree there, so late. The Bride of Fort Edward
Taking a knife, Mother cut off these edges even with the pan, then, for decoration, made little marks in the dough all around, like the flutings of the Fairy Lamp. Half-Past Seven Stories
On examining this column carefully, I found that the fluting, about half way down, was finished and polished, and a part in the rough. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir
Her musical, fluting voice acted like as a strange enchantment on the astonished audience. The Idol of Paris
The valley was filled with the purr of running water; from their rocks the whistlers called forth their soft notes; up on the green plain the ptarmigan were fluting, and rising in white-winged flocks. The Grizzly King
Is it possible you are not aware that your poor notes raise a smile right through the forest, accustomed to the fluting of the thrush? Chantecler Play in Four Acts
Who would not keep the cuckoo's twin shout floating for ever over summer fields and the blackbird for ever fluting his thanksgiving after summer showers? Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
Her voice was at its most musical pitch, rather low for her, fluting, infinitely disarming and seductive. Alias the Lone Wolf
"You'd never be able to do fluting and pinking in the world." Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870
But all this lamentation, now; this fluting and beating of breasts; these wholly disproportionate wailings: how am I the better for it all? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
Those were not the days of flutings and bows and rufflings innumerable. The Hallam Succession
Robin was happy because there were flutings of birds in the air, gardeners were stuffing crocuses and hyacinths into the flower beds, there were little sweet scents floating about and so it was Spring. The Head of the House of Coombe
The upward force is manifest primarily in the vertical columns, and is emphasized there by the flutings, the slight progressive narrowing toward the top, and the inward effort of the necking just below the echinus. The Principles of Aesthetics
It shot forth from the central fluting of a column that supported the pediment of the bookcase. The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Wanted," it read, "by the Myers Manufacturing Company, agents to sell a patent flat and fluting iron. The Making of an American
Your mellow fluting blackbird, your wise thrush that sings each song twice over, your high-fluttering larks we do not know. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
It grew and swelled until at last it seemed as if through a myriad pipes that Pan the earth spirit was fluting his magical creative song. AE in the Irish Theosophist
A sparrow trilled from the swaying top of a purple ironwood, and from grass, and fence-rail, and awing, meadow larks were fluting everywhere, but the song of no wood-thrush reached his waiting ear. The Heart of the Hills
Her voice ran fluting up and down the scale. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
Touch gently the bell; you will find it there, a small bronze knob, in the fluting of the frame, and scarce perceptible to the uninitiated eye. Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
And, in the same instant, from the head of the path, drifted the fluting notes of a mocking bird. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
A column of the Parthenon, with its inclination, its tapering, its entasis, and its fluting, could not have been constructed without the most conscientious skill. A History of Greek Art
In places the friction of the current had brought them to a glistening polish; the surface was smooth as glass, and was sometimes cut into multitudinous irregular flutings as deep as one's finger. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons
Of a sudden there sounded a shrill note, high above the organ, a fluting from the bottom to the top of the gamut, the immemorial summons to children, the overture to the primitive drama. The Unclassed
Far up and down the canyon the eye traces these horizontal layers, like the flutings of an elaborate molding, distinguishing each by its contour as well as by its color and thickness. The Elements of Geology
When Verity woke in the morning, instead of the rumbling of carts and wagons, she heard the fluting of blackbirds and thrushes in the orchard below, and the lowing of cows for their pastures. Herb of Grace
Morgana went on in the sweet fluting voice which was one of her special charms. The Secret Power
Somehow they made you think of earliest spring, of young leaves, of the flutings of birds deep within a glade sifted with golden light, fragrant with white fragrance. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
Even the rippling streams chimed merrily in with the glad exultant songs of red wing black birds and fluting cardinals. See America First
The outer world scarcely tempts me at all; surrounded by my little family, it is enough for me to go into the woods from time to time, to listen to the fluting of the blackbirds. Fabre, Poet of Science
Set at intervals between them were what looked like octagonal rosettes filled with slender silvery flutings, wan striations—like—it came to me—immense chrysanthemum buds, half opened, and carved in gray jade. The Metal Monster
Colonnade, illuminated by three translucent shell cups sunk into central groove of each column at rear; spear of light from each shell up the grooves or fluting; pleasant glow through shells from below. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth
Behind the voices,—flutings, single notes, broken phrases, long undisturbed warblings came from the garden. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1
He arrived perhaps ten minutes before the three o'clock alarum, and soon passing through preliminary chaos, the articulate, thin fluting of his voice streamed forth again, broken by the squeaking and spluttering of his quill. Fraternity
A long and fluting note, honey-sweet as it were blown upon a bottle, comes to us from far. Back Home
It was a mass of frills, furbelows, fringes, and flutings of rare hue and form, making a series of wonderful contrasts. Caught in the Net
Then the notion developed of making it ornamental by fluting it and decorating the top. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth
Singing he was, or fluting all the day; He was as fresh as is the month of May. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
All day the birches bend to hear The river's undertone; Across the hush a fluting thrush Sings even-song alone. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets
Music, too, he had; daily evening Concert, though from himself there is no fluting now. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20
Fritz's love of music, especially of fluting, is already known to us. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06
Her attendants were small satyr-like spirits of the wilds, piping and fluting, in place of the reclining maiden. The ninth vibration and other stories
You know that sort of young man's neck that has two great flutings down the back, here and here—so! Twelve Stories and a Dream
Content's responding voice came from the pink-and-white nest in which she was snuggled, like the fluting pipe of a canary. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories
Limpid and liquid cadenzas, mellow flutings, and the sweet treble of infancy met and danced and piped in the airy soundings. The Crock of Gold
Around its edge were flutings and scrolls of white icing, and on its broad breast reposed cherries, and stout butterflies of jelly, and cunning traceries of colored sugar. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
You will hear his wild fluting in many strange places when you know how to listen. The ninth vibration and other stories
Our arguments disputing, The universal Pan Still wanders flutingfluting - Fluting to maid and man. Poems
Here and there eyes shone in the flutings of the columns, the floor reflected looks, the marbles spoke, the vaults re-echoed sighs, the edifice itself seemed endowed with life. Maitre Cornelius
And as he walked, taking his time, he kept up a very soft light whistling, an airy, far-away fluting that sounded mournful and tender. The Garden Party and Other Stories
Busy in the grass the early sun of summer   Swarms, and the blackbird's mellow fluting notes Call my darling up with round and roguish challenge:   Quaintest, richest carol of all the singing throats! Bulchevy's Book of English Verse
Morning, with its pure breath, its sunshine of joy, and the koels fluting in the Palace gardens! The ninth vibration and other stories
Adelaide was lighting the Argand lamp, no doubt that she might get rid of a tallow candle fixed in a large copper flat candlestick, and graced with a heavy fluting of grease from its guttering. The Purse
Trumpeting and fluting rose early on the morn, as sign that they should ride. The Nibelungenlied
The bluebirds came back, fluting love-songs; and the robins, carolling ballads of joy; and the blackbirds, creaking merrily. The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature
He lectured walking up and down between the desks, talking in a fluting rapid voice, and with the utmost lucidity. The New Machiavelli
Louder, faster The little band-master Whips up the fluting, Hurries up the tooting. The Congo and Other Poems
The sounds they make, a sort of fluting and piping. The First Men in the Moon
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