| 单词 | rhythmical |
| 例句 | She carried water to the field hands, and listened to their rhythmical singing, watched how the movement of their hands, their bodies, was paced to the rhythm of the song. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My lungs were compressed like a bellows and each time my breath returned I yelled, punctuating the rhythmical action of the nodes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the extra weight did not alter her rhythmical gait, but men’s eyes no longer pursued her curves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours—almost indefinitely. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened intensely, aware of the form and movement of sentences and grasping the now subtle rhythmical differences between progressions of sound that questioned and those that made a statement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z All is quiet except for the rhythmical chirping of crickets calling out to each other. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the deck of the ship the crew lined up, ten hearty men bared to the waist, each grasping the rope, and began a rhythmical march from one end of the ship to the other. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z As she worked on her hands and knees, she felt a rhythmical beat, like the rumble of Eskimo drums. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Wavy greenish streaks run in the foreground with the same rhythmical movement as the white and red streaks in the sky. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z Rainbow Dance shows a prancing silhouette doing a 1930s raindance to the rhythmical strains of a muffled New Orleans trumpet. This week's new exhibitions 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z On the eve of World War I, rhythmical movement became the common characteristic shared by works of otherwise astonishing diversity. Art Review: Severini and Van Dongen, Restless in a Rudderless 20th Century 2011-06-10T12:19:58Z Lovely, rubbery, rhythmical language, and a message you can't argue with. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z The energy is rhythmical, the energy is physical, the energy is audible. Sara de Luis garnishes Seattle Opera's 'Don Quixote' with classic Spanish dance 2011-02-18T22:03:30Z Precisely as the song goes “I’m just about to lose my mind/Honey, honey,” we see Mr. Marshall crumpling up in spasms, rhythmical but irregular, thanks to the grapevine, a rumor. Dance Review: Doug Elkins’s ‘Mo(or)town/Redux’ and ‘Scott, Queen of Marys’ 2012-12-07T23:45:59Z One of the words that recur in Miłosz's prose and poetry is "incantation", meaning rhythmical language dictated, he would affirm, by a "daimonion". Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z The Stravinsky is jazzy and rhythmical, while the Jolivet is beautiful and modernistic. Roberto Abbado becomes familiar guest at Seattle Symphony 2012-02-09T21:58:10Z It's the combination of Walt Whitman's poetry, which is not rhythmical in a sense, and Vaughan Williams's very steady four-in-a-bar music that I thought didn't go very well together. Sakari Oramo's First Night at the Proms 2013-07-10T17:59:00Z This was also a time when the medical profession widely believed that disease was "unrhythmical" while health was "rhythmical". A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace 2013-05-22T10:54:15Z Decorating each phase of this tap epic are the terrific moments in which the art’s rhythmical virtuosity seems to pass into Mr. Seibert’s own prose. Review: A Rigorous Tap Dancing Lesson in ‘What the Eye Hears’ 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Ferri said the work was “a real departure from the rhythmical atmosphere and group dances that we’re accustomed to seeing in ‘Rite of Spring.’ ‘Can You Rotate That?’ A Hyperkinetic Spin on ‘Rite of Spring’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The rhythmical intensity of the lament is heightened by its numerous repetitions. Poem of the week: A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham 2011-02-23T10:44:17Z Velázquez was possibly looking at a hillock with clusters of wild grass when he drew a rhythmical composition that defies identification. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z The rhythmical repetitions of video loops seem particularly fitting. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z They put their family’s stories together, returning again and again to the same place, often with rhythmical cadence, knowing it better and feeling it more deeply each time, as in a prayer or psalm: Review | Alice McDermott’s new novel begins with suicide and culminates in murder 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z A strong breeze sends rhythmical ripples running on the water and masses of clouds rolling in the immense sky. For Old Masters, It's Dealers' Choice 2010-07-16T13:00:00Z “There was the more contemporary dance side, and then there’s the more rhythmical side,” she said. How ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Brought Step to the Met 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The interlude in the center, the small interlude with the violin solo, is very touching, because it is juxtaposed against very rhythmical, boisterous music. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Both keen to move beyond their comfort zones, they made The Four Minute Mile, a four-minute recording of Turk talking about art and Chalayan humming in accompaniment, set to a rhythmical soundtrack of running feet. Britain Creates: when fashion and art collide 2012-06-26T20:00:01Z Memorably repetitive and rhythmical text, circular peepholes to anticipate what comes next and pictures packed with sly detail. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z But I didn't object to much of this material when it was wrapped up in O'Connor's beguiling rhythmical prose. Reading group: sin and symbolism in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood 2012-12-12T09:11:58Z Born in Ithaca, N.Y., in August 1921, he grew up in the South — first in Tennessee, then in Alabama — and spoke in a melodious baritone, with a quiet, rhythmical, Southern drawl. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The song "Peach Blossom" is melodically interesting, with a pounding, rhythmical drum and angry guitar. Review: Eels cheer up on 'Wonderful, Glorious' 2013-02-05T18:01:05Z I write a lot of poetry and play with the idea of songs, but my brain doesn’t work in a musical instrument, rhythmical way. Juno Temple's teenage obsessions: 'Brandon Flowers was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z No one can say for sure how long a rhythmical scrolling pattern will continue to pass for important art. Auctions: In Contemporary Art Sales, Big Is Better and Famous Is Best 2011-05-13T12:00:05Z He also made rough sketches outlining the harmonic, melodic and rhythmical structure of large tracts of the text. Michael Kennedy on Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos 2013-05-30T09:56:31Z But it may also be seen as an abstract essay in rhythmical, colored movement. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z Formally, it is rhythmical and choreographic, balancing blocks of text and images against blank areas. Nancy Spero: no pity 2011-02-26T00:07:34Z The salsa played here, however, isn’t an excuse to get people up and shaking their booty, but rather is appreciated for its musical, rhythmical and lyrical qualities. How Cali’s DIY dance clubs keep the spirit of salsa alive 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z In Mr. Battle’s dances, choreographic pathways are taut, rhythmical labyrinths in which even the slightest misstep can lead to a collision. Robert Battle Finally Has His Steps in the Spotlight 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The elongated proportions, the rhythmical stylization of the loincloth, and the inscrutable expression of supreme authority speak of an art at the apex of a first blossoming. Review: Lifting Hazy Veils From Centuries of Vietnamese Art 2010-02-26T18:30:00Z “That smooth, rhythmical tone to sing, it’s so beautiful. … We used to dance with our boyfriends to this music.” Fans mourn João Gilberto at Rio de Janeiro funeral 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Dating from the second to fifth century A.D., he is a standing figure in an ankle-length tunic and a togalike cloak that falls in rhythmical folds, with hints at the shape of the body beneath. Art Review: When East Met West Under the Buddha?s Gaze 2011-08-10T23:20:02Z This book has everything - a rhythmical, memorable text, dramatic tension, scary bits, humour - and Helen Oxenbury's amazing illustrations, so full of life and movement. Lucy Coats's top 10 bear picture books 2013-03-21T12:47:16Z Most remarkably, an auction record was set for Cy Twombly with one of his compositions in which rhythmical scribbling runs in superposed rows on dark ground. Auctions: Andy Warhol and a Teddy Bear Steal the Show at Christie's 2011-05-12T11:30:06Z The fierce heat recedes in the oxymoron of "cool fire", and is followed by the effect of a gentle breeze with that little rhythmical tremor, "tempered with". Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z They are known for their rhythmical singing, incessant drumming and trance-like ferocity, and the country’s history of success at the World Cup is rivaled by few. Live updates | Argentina plays France in World Cup final 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Argentina arguably has the World Cup’s most fervent fans, known for their rhythmical singing, incessant drumming and trance-like ferocity. EXPLAINER: Why are Argentines such ardent World Cup fans? 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z In happier times, Eliot would describe “The Waste Land” as “just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.” Opinion | ‘The Waste Land,’ T.S. Eliot’s primal scream, resonates 100 years on 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Maudlin and Allison quickly became a formidable rhythmical force, giving Holly's songs a unique urgency. Crickets drummer Jerry Allison dies aged 82 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z With titles like “To Live,” “Listen” and “Grass,” his poems are stark, rhythmical but conversational, defying elaborate traditional literary styles. For Japan’s star poet Tanikawa, it’s fun, not work, at 90 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Those rhythmical, mindful activities that engage your hands are very replenishing, a form of meditation. Why gardening offers a ‘psychological lifeline’ in times of crisis 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z His rhythmical skills drew praise at the start of lockdown in 2020, when he performed a rendition of the BBC News theme that took social media by storm. BBC weatherman Owain Wyn Evans' drumathon raises £2m 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Yet prior to the new study, only humans and thrush nightingales have been observed singing songs that have a rhythmical structure—that is, containing features such as a “categorical rhythm.” We got the beat: Lemurs show vocal musical rhythm, a rarity in animal kingdom 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z It was at this point that he adopted "toasting", a rhythmical vocal style performed over reggae and dance tracks that then became popular in Jamaica in the later 1960s and 70s. U-Roy, pioneering Jamaican reggae artist, dies aged 78 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Many people learn in school to read poems like regular prose, without pausing at line breaks or stressing the rhymes, but spoken-word poets do the opposite, foregrounding the rhythmical, musical qualities of language. Perspective | What made Amanda Gorman's poem so much better than other inaugural verse 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z He argued that resetting the term count was necessary to keep his lieutenants from “darting their eyes in search for possible successors instead of normal, rhythmical work.” Putin a step away from goal as constitutional vote nears end 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The rhythmical shouts of the auctioneers and the special hand signals by the bidders were unchanged from Tsukiji, which the market recently left after more than eight decades. AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in Asia 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The rhythmical shouts of the auctioneers and the special hand signals by the bidders that followed were unchanged from Tsukiji, the smaller, more accessible home the market recently left after more than eight decades. New Tokyo fish market starts traditionally with tuna auction 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The rhythmical shouts of the auctioneers and the special hand signals by the bidders that followed were unchanged from Tsukiji, the smaller, more accessible home the market recently left after more than eight decades. New Tokyo fish market starts traditionally with tuna auction 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z They gather around to admire this alluring new figure, who, they soon learn, is in trouble with the college authorities for the “rhythmical creaking” that has been coming from his room. The Evolution of One of Fiction’s Gay Liberators 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The spare, tightly rhythmical pentameter of Ruden’s Aeneid contrasts favourably with the loose, haphazard beats of most of her male rivals. Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Re-energised, she resolved to marry her instinct for melody to something more rhythmical. Maggie Rogers: After wowing Pharrell, she's delivered an EP of blissful, rural pop - BBC News 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Joining forces on an outside court in Greenwich, New York, the two sides play some rhythmical basketball beats. Harlem Globetrotters fete 90th birthday with special video 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z I hated it, as it killed the rhythmical drawing that was my preferred response to the space of my subject, but I couldn't help myself. Sargy Mann: How a blind painter sees - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Hammers are pounding, cranes are swinging and construction workers’ boom boxes belt out rhythmical background music. Watford City aims to transition from boom town to hometown 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z And the flowing, rhythmical movement and joined letters of cursive, in particular, may help children better visualize the way letters form words. Wichita schools explore reviving cursive writing 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The machine itself makes a rhythmical sound and that somehow features in the product. James Nares Goes High Speed At Paul Kasmin Gallery 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It was wide and it was full and it was flowing and it was rhythmical. Brandel Chamblee on Tiger Woods' swing, 2000: 'Wide, full, flowing, rhythmical, awesome and beautiful': The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z But it is important to realise that ancient rhythmical and melodic norms were different from our own. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z Music is most effective when used synchronously - that is, when stride rates are matched to the rhythmical components of the music, Karageorghis believes. Is Chariots of Fire a good running track? 2012-07-13T11:02:44Z They caught but the outline, some rhythmical features and some stereotyped ornaments; but Liszt was able to penetrate to the very source of it, he carried the key to its secret in his Hungarian temperament. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Two men are carrying a heavy burden on a common bamboo pole through the streets, and they shout in a rhythmical strain that can be heard a hundred yards in the distance. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Both the beauty and the fault of his extraordinary rhythms are exposed in that term, and certainly his first claim to originality lies in his rhythmical innovations. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z It was rhythmical in its harmony with the olives of the room and of her own rare colouring. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Then the purple folds of the curtain fell again, and the litter was borne away to the rhythmical sound of the footsteps of the slaves. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Two hammers were at work; I could see them rising and falling, and hear, though they seemed to be muffled, the rhythmical jarring clang as they struck the metal. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Remembering the warning contained in the last rhythmical lines, she feared lest his hopes should be dashed to the ground. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Such might be the case if each single rhythmical impact were capable of instantaneously exciting the retina, and the rhythm were just high enough to cause a continuous impression in the eye. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z Which one of the notes thus grouped is to be accented depends upon its rhythmical position in the measure. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z What I do mean to say is that if the prehistoric man's syllables were uniform, and his breath periodic, then the rhythmical results described would follow. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The rhythmical structure of the piece, it seems to us, supplies the key to its explanation, and reduces to order its long-drawn and heaped-up relative and prepositional clauses, which are grammatically so unmanageable. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Seating himself on the stool, he began to roast the coffee, holding the pan over the coals by its long handle, and swaying it slightly from side to side with a rhythmical motion. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z In such case there is no rhythmical bombardment, and the result is produced entirely by leakage. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z In "Evangeline" the flow of language is placid and gentle and rhythmical, and in consonance with the gentle faith and hope of Evangeline. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z More unusual is the rhythmical closing and opening of the hand, successively, of athetosis. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z But soon a gentle, rhythmical sound fell on her ears, and pleased her. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z A wave broke heavily on the causeway and ran down seething to the sea; and another and another, filling the room with rhythmical thunders. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z So in the experiment before shown, the button is rendered incandescent by the rhythmical impact of freely movable small bodies in the bulb. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z Nuance and overtones not dazzling tropical hues or rhythmical variety. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The glassily smooth surface of the sea was not broken by the faintest ripple, but it rose and fell slowly with the long, rhythmical swell of the Atlantic. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z In general I have great difficulty in finding rhythmical terminations, but then I could write verse with as much facility as prose.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It would appear to be the rhythmical expression of deep human feeling and longing in an unrestrained outburst of ten thousand souls. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z For this reason very large arcs would not emit any rhythmical sound even with a very low frequency. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z He mounted with a rhythmical swing of shoulder and limb, and gave the stallion his head, trotting out of town with never a look about. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z A faint perfume hung about the place, and from below came the soft melody of a rhythmical German waltz which the orchestra was playing. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z Death, on the contrary, is the cessation of these rhythmical processes of building up and breaking down of the protoplasm molecules. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z The rhythmical, swinging tone of the reader adds zest to the singing which follows. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z When she is taught "attracting attention" she is told that alongside of "facial expression" there comes "tone of voice," and under this last there are five distinct classifications: "audible, distinct, sincere, rhythmical, suited to customer." The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z It was a waltz, and it had but just commenced, the rhythmical strains had but just penetrated to their nook within the cloisters, when suddenly, with some degree of abruptness, the music stopped. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z Animosity, however, soon sinks down again, and, calm as the rippling waves against the old Emperor's bath palace below, the hours glide away in rhythmical monotony. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z Swinburne tells his Greek tales in an endless flow of rhythmical, musical verse, which occasionally rises into the realm of having something to say. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Tall, commanding, erect—ample in speech, graceful in compliment, Titanic in denunciation, rich in illustration, prodigal of comparison and metaphor—and his sentences, measured and rhythmical, fell like music on the enraptured throng. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Under emotion the blood rises and falls, the muscles contract and relax, and this action of the blood is as rhythmical as the rise and fall of the sea. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Gungl, Waldteufel and the Strauss family may be said to have moulded the modern waltz to its present form by their rhythmical and agreeable compositions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z From its open windows a yellow flood of light streamed out, and besides the light, the music of a single violin and the rhythmical beat of feet. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z What Cicero did for Latin prose, in revealing the fertility of its resources, in giving to it more ample volume, and eliciting its capabilities of sonorous rhythmical movement, Lucretius aspires to do for Latin verse. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "Precisely the right number," was virtually Rossini's reply; and inspired by their vivacity and their rhythmical flow, he, in fact, set them all. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z But notwithstanding its deafening shrillness, it has great rhythmical power; and after all it only sounds harsh to us on account of its complexity. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Up the stretch they swung, in steady, rhythmical procession; from across the field one would have said that they scarcely moved; so greatly did the added distance deceive the eye. Dick Randall The Young Athlete 2012-01-04T03:00:45.467Z The rhythmical system is dependent, not upon measure,xx but upon accent, with considerable freedom in the addition or suppression of unaccented syllables. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z The greater fluency of style and the greater ease of rhythmical movement, thus enjoyed by the early comedy, is the most obvious explanation of its permanent hold on the world. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Then follow a number of proverbs, partly of symbolic significance, and in rhythmical sayings, such as:199— In close array the ranks of heroes stand, Obedient to the master-mind's command. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Korean dancing, on account of its dignity and calm, is by far the most plastic and rhythmical of all Oriental worship of Terpsichore. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Like muscular efforts are made—no doubt often quite unconsciously—by persons whose will acts energetically, and when several men co-operate the force of vibrations produced in a kind of rhythmical tact, becomes truly astounding. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z In moving any heavy object they seldom push, preferring to haul upon it by rhythmical jerks delivered in time to a chant. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z From the little lobby outside came the sharp rat-tat of a knocker—low, clear, and rhythmical. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z It was the brimming energy of their movements that swept him off his feet, waking the desire for fierce rhythmical expression. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Its intimate union Lyric poetry. with music and with the rhythmical movement of the dance gives to it more of an ideal character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z A peculiar, rhythmical beating of the triangle accompanies the rising of the curtain, which reveals a luxuriant garden enclosed by a bamboo fence. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z The sea was like oil, with a long, slow, unbroken swell that set the little ship rolling in solemn rhythmical fashion which Stuart, the man of tongues, had long since dubbed heroic hexameters. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z I made a point of keeping a strange, rhythmical, dreamy step like that of a sleep-walker and sang as if I were talking in my sleep. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z He began in a deep-toned rhythmical chant, and he proceeded with the syncopated melody, now and then sifting in some queer sounds that may have been words, while he kept time with hands and feet. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z His volume of plays, all in free rhythmical verse, is Plays for Poem—Mimes. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z Barbarians like the Ainu do not indicate their rhythmical effects and modulations by means of a musical notation; and harmony is of course very defective with them, from our point of view. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Her beautiful songs, displaying so truly the most delicate lights and shadows of woman's heart, and surprising by their unity, completeness, and rhythmical perfection, were written with almost the fluency of conversation. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z "Mr. Johnson's style is almost rhythmical, and one lays down the book with the sensation of having read a poem and that saddest of all longings, the longing for vanished youth." The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z Aria, ā′ri-a, n. an air or rhythmical song introduced in a cantata, oratorio, or opera, and intended for one voice supported by instruments. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z The powers of expression and the richness of Vondel's thought, together with the rhythmical beauty of the poem, have been preserved in full. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The Ainu, as far as I could judge, have no fixed rhythmical method, and each man constructs his own. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z To the eye there were neither waves nor ripples, but careful scrutiny through the strong prisms showed a rhythmical approach and receding, a gentle breathlike pulsation which regularly darkened and uncovered a thread of sand. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z She liked to feel the easy lift as the Enchantress shouldered off the swell; the drowsy murmur at the bows and the rhythmical throb of engines were soothing. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Thus, as the cavalcade dashes along like a torrent, a rhythmical effect is produced by the contrast of the impetuous horses and their calm, steadfast riders. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Under emotion, the blood rises and falls, the muscles contract and relax, and this action of the blood is as rhythmical as the rise and fall of the sea. Walt Whitman An Address 2011-09-26T02:00:30.337Z I have not felt justified in classifying these rhythmical sounds, which accompany the dancing, as choruses, for there is not enough in them to constitute either a tune or a melody. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z These recitations are carried on in a monotonous drawling tone, and the body is swung forwards and backwards, the imam himself setting the time by his own rhythmical nodding. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z "Attempts have been made to illegitimatize it," answered Gronski, "but licentiousness never can be rhythmical nor harmonical, and for that reason from these attempts there was born an antichrist of music." Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The crooning song repeated its rhythmical measures in her ears. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z He accompanied me gently, yet with firmness and rhythmical decision. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Carefully the boy replaced it in his stick, as though he had still many miles to go, and resuming his rhythmical step came up the winding path to me. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Her mind was a blank except for the delicious feeling of bliss in rhythmical movement. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z The dulcet yodel of the tom cat, the musical purr of the open muffler and the rhythmical chime of the flat car wheel is symphony plenty a-nuff for the city denizens. The Discards 2011-08-27T02:00:23.603Z Joyce was a beautiful dancer, easy, light, and rhythmical. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z These would be given quietly, but with a firm, rhythmical precision. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Along the town road a boy with a letter held aloft in a cleft stick was approaching, with the peculiar rhythmical motion affected by letter-carriers. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z The easier, the more natural, and the more rhythmical our movements are in golf the more successful will be the efforts always. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z The thumping continued, in a rhythmical manner, as if it were in time with somebody's walking, and progressed slowly along the Lane. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z The entire action must be rhythmical and the rhythms should be used as definite themes, one for the Princess and her retinue, another for the Wazir, etc. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Keeping time with the solemn, rhythmical throbbing of the war drums, the dancers moved slowly about the fire chanting the boastful words of the war song, and flourishing their weapons. The War Trail 2011-07-30T02:00:15.833Z They suggest their own music, and it would be difficult to read them aloud without falling into some rhythmical balance of their lines. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z For the purpose of the experiment you must, of course, know the sounds denoted by the letters, and you must be able to 30 make out the rhythmical scheme. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z They used the Psalter in a rhythmical paraphrase adapted to modern singing, but keeping so near to the wording of the Psalms that they even called it the Psalm-book. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z Watch, and forget all weary things on earth, All memories and cares, all joy and mirth, While my dance woos him, light and rhythmical, And weaves his heart into my coronal. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z As it grew louder it took on a rhythmical beat not unpleasant. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z By a window sat another, weaving; you could see her rhythmical gestures in moving the shuttle. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The song is rhythmical, and describes the formation of the universe by the great Manito. Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley 2011-07-01T02:00:16.500Z Children delight to personate animals; and a fine genius could not better employ itself than in inventing a great many more plays, setting them to rhythmical words, describing what is to be done. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z His thoughts are pleasant—you can see it in the rhythmical movement of the muscles under his coat. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z When H. viridis is at rest the tentacles and column, according to Wagner, exhibit rhythmical contractions in which those of the buds act in sympathy with those of the parent. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z The cardiac ganglia derived from the sympathetic preside over the movements of the organ, and in response to the stimulus of the intra-ventricular blood-pressure cause rhythmical contraction of the cavities. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z "Absolute poetry," he says, "is the concrete and artistic expression of the human mind in emotional and rhythmical language." Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z He found his inspiration in the rhythmical clatter and cackle of intricate machinery; he was stirred by the interweaving and interlacing business problems, and the whole movement, shape, and pattern of huge commercial enterprises. The Bishop and the Boogerman 2011-06-12T02:00:07.497Z With a rhythmical motion of arms and hands he came forward, performed a spreading bow of welcome, and drew back, putting his hand to his brow, as if in concentration of thought. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z His ear was musical, and he formed a metrical structure with the melodies of our varied versification, rejecting the rude rhythmical rhyme which had hitherto prevailed in our poetry. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z A gradual consciousness of the beating of the sea smote his senses, as with rhythmical regularity it arose. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z But Mr. Pendarrel, with his ear against the wall, has now caught another sound; regular, rhythmical, advancing along the road. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z The rush of events had well-nigh bewildered him, and listlessly he watched the rhythmical motion of the sinewy arms as the rowers urged the boat towards the opposite shore. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Patriarchal beard, flowing out in a pattern of rhythmical waves—most realistically mildewed by time and weather.... Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z To both these noblemen our poets owe their emancipation from rhyme; but the rhythmical artifices of blank verse were not discovered in the monotonous, uncadenced lines of its inventors. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Meter, and even rhyme, which is but a colored, light drum-beat, accentuating the meter, are not "ornaments" or "refinements" of something else which may be called "rhythmical speech." Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z His prose is stiff and mechanical, but most of his poetry has an easy rhythmical flow. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z James had never even heard of this rhythmical irritant, and fortunately he was able to convince indignant American patriots that he was not the author of the poem. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z But much of this work was invented by the children themselves, their wildest fancies being controlled to produce symmetry, by following the one rhythmical law of always making an opposite to everything they do. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z For many years Wyatt had smothered his native talent, by translation from Spanish and Italian poets, and in his rusty rhythmical measures. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z They are the heart of rhythmical speech expressed and exposed with a perfectly childlike and candid grandeur. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z No one can hear it correctly pronounced without being charmed with its rhythmical beauty, or without feeling confident of its poetical aptness and significance in the dialect from which it was derived. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z From the clapping, or rudimentary rhythmical noise, has been evolved the whole art of instrumental music, down to the entrancing complexity of the modern symphony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z With monotonous force, in a kind of grand rhythmical cadence the rain pours down to the accompaniment of the swirling Save. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z Wyatt commenced as a writer nearly ten years before Surrey, and his earlier poetic compositions are formed in the old rhythmical school. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z With regular rhythmical action he pulled on, and very soon she could see his great arms bared to the shoulders. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z It is also known that the effect of rhythmical or regular vibrations is more destructive than the effect of those which are inharmonious or irregular. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z This lifting and dropping of the fallers on to the beam takes place in rhythmical and rapid succession. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The Italian verses have great power and beauty; but the English lines have the superiority, not in poetry only, but in rhythmical melody. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z The couples with the right arm of one partner locked tightly into the left of the other march about bending their knees at rhythmical intervals, presenting the most ridiculous appearance. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z The style is more like rhythmical prose than that of any other of Massinger's plays. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z How miserably does an inadequate prose translation halt after the glowing poetry, the rhythmical music, the "linked sweetness" of the original! The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z I shall show that it is really rhythmical prose arranged so as to call attention to the rhythms. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Thought drifted, almost dormant, lulled by infinite and rhythmical currents which seemed to set her body swaying, gently; and, listless, non-resistant, conscious of the charm of it, she gradually yielded to the sorcery. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z The nuclear division of cleavage is usually at first a rhythmical process; all the nuclei divide simultaneously, and periods of nuclear activity alternate with periods of rest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Some might call his metre at times slipshod and undignified, from the fact that, except in elevated passages, the characters speak in rhythmical sentences which approximate to prose. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z It conveyed a thousand laborious sentences in a small spontaneous gesture that was rhythmical. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Our English poets who write in blank verse would have done even better to use prose, rhythmical or unrhythmical. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The melodies of this earliest Icelandic verse, elaborate in their extreme and severe simplicity, are wholly rhythmical and alliterative, and return upon themselves like a solemn incantation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Sometimes there was silence, and nothing was to be heard save the sound of steps as rhythmical as a heavy shower. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Therefore select for this position a man whose movements are graceful, rhythmical and easy, who can show style in his own rowing, and thus instil it into the rest of the crew. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z Their communications, their flocking together, their swift rhythmical movements, their singing language, their unity, their—brotherhood! The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z It is rhythmical prose, arranged so as to call attention to the rhythm. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z What they heard was a rhythmical, measured sound, which rose and fell and made a sort of irregular music. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z An angry hand rang a full peal, whilst heavy boots beat rhythmical imprecations upon the gate. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Not until that night, after we had gone to bed, and I felt Will's deep, rhythmical breathing beneath my head, which lay pressed against his breast, only then did I give way to my grief. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Once rhythmical, the disorder and extravagance would become order, balance. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The lines do not return upon themselves, that is, there is no repeat any more than in rhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Notwithstanding the width of the cloak, the rhythmical swing of her body and the youthfulness of her figure were revealed. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z On this pallet lay a woman, with just a ragged counterpane covering limbs I had so lately seen moving in rhythmical measure. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z She longed to invite him to pour out his woes; and at this moment it would scarcely have surprised her if his speech had sounded like a rhythmical monologue, a long lament in blank verse. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z He heard the flying voices farther and farther in the distance, but still sweet with a rhythmical new music. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z This is how the passage, which being rhythmical besides, begins: Golden lie the meadows; golden run the streams; red gold is on the pine-stems. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Throughout this summer Amir has shown himself to be a brilliant, mature, rhythmical bowler. Pakistan's Sydney Test loss open to doubt, but new charges look clearer 2010-08-29T22:01:00Z A rhythmical beeping sound offered regular assurances that all was well. 2010-01-20T16:00:00Z Many of these proverbs are rhythmical in structure in their original form, but this feature is lost ordinarily in a translation. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources In the first period he was carried away by inward enthusiasm: his language has a rhythmical movement, with true poetic colouring. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII On the contrary, all verse, including Greek verse, was a development from rhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In rhythmical movement the poem exhibits the highest perfection of which Latin verse is capable. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The ear of the South has always felt the charm of rhythmical or melodious speech, with a keenness of pleasure generally denied to our colder temperament. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The attention may be directed in succession to the different objects, so that the perception is rhythmical; the distinctive rhythm thus aiding the perception of the particular number. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" From below the noise of the piano came up the staircase, unmelodious but rhythmical, and from the street on which the house faced an automobile was starting its engine, with a series of shot-like explosions. The Window at the White Cat Read the famous Song of the Harper where an epicurean life is praised; it is impassioned rhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z This large, musical, and impassioned utterance—the ‘os magna sonaturum’—is a sure note of that access of emotion which forces the poet to find a rhythmical expression for his thought. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil We are led to this notion by the consideration of some remains of Lacedæmonian composition, in which no one can fail to see the rhythmical form and symmetry of the sentences. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 She was swimming easily with the side stroke, and he could see the rhythmical flash and swing of a white arm as she made the overhand reach. Stranded in Arcady Oh come, they wait you on the further strand— Your drab and mournful mood they will exchange For joy's resplendent purple in the land Where all is rhythmical and fair and strange... Challenge The irregular rhythmical form was a natural outflow of the ecstatic element. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The language of this hymn is so surpassingly lovely and its movement so rhythmical, it fairly sings itself. The Story of Our Hymns Thomasin spoke quietly, but the sound of her stirring spoon grew less rhythmical. Beggars on Horseback Watch, and forget all weary things of earth, All memories and cares, all joy and mirth, While my dance woos him, light and rhythmical, And weaves his heart into my coronal. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Faster, and faster, and faster—the sound of the wheels falling into a regular measure, until it has become a weird, rhythmical monotone. The Mystery of Evelin Delorme A Hypnotic Story There is no sharp dividing line between rhythmical and unrhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Their jubilant tone and smooth rhythmical flow are at once an invitation to sing them. The Story of Our Hymns Wherever the text is whole, it is curt, elliptical, and yet rhythmical to a degree attainable only through long use. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The Sonnet, together with the Ottava Rima, seems to have been the invention of the Provincial bards, but to have been reduced to its present rhythmical prosody by some of the earliest Italian poets. A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation The gods are asleep in the silent temple; Only the lapping of waves on the sea-sand Mingles its drowsy rhythmical beating With the bells of the fountain. Acanthus and Wild Grape While it is true that when excited we repeat expressions and become rhythmical, we do not do so with regularity and uniformity. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The joyous, rhythmical church-song introduced by Bishop Ambrose made triumphant progress throughout the Western Church. The Story of Our Hymns The leather soles of his sandals made crisp clear rhythmical sounds against the stone underfoot. The Return of Tharn The special duty of the king was by offering rhythmical and very ancient prayers to Great Rongo to keep away evil-minded spirits who might otherwise injure the island. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Grasshopper made no response, other than a plucky tossing of his bit and a quickening cadence in his rhythmical stride, by way of pardonable bravado. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus An idea emotionally treated becomes poetry whether in prose or verse, whether rhythmical or not. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He was the author of a new kind of church music, which, because of its rhythmical accent, rich modulation, and musical flow, made a powerful appeal to the emotions. The Story of Our Hymns A slight sense of annoyance was his first feeling, for it was many years since he had slept by the sea; then quietly, lingeringly, soothingly the rhythmical persistence of the sound began to tell. The Gambler A Novel Here, by the writing lever, the rhythmical contractions are recorded. The Social Gangster Under the pine-tree, tall and erect, with head and eyes uplifted, stood the musician, chanting his songs with a strange rhythmical cadence, and accompanying them on the flat Indian drum. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This is always in rhythmical prose, or free verse, and this may be seen in the anthology of Indian poems collected by Cronyn in The Path of the Rainbow. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z If it be true that poetry is the rhythmical expression in words of thought fused in emotion, then in his work we are impressed by the completeness of the fusion. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII All was quiet except for the rhythmical thumping of small job presses in the scattered printing shops. Penny Nichols and the Black Imp She could hear a rhythmical buzz on the wire. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue Serious, vital thoughts he veils, as the genuine poet, in a cloak of fine rhythmical expression. Per Amica Silentia Lunae Similarly the emotional outbursts of native African tribes are in rhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z She had looped the loop and was still dancing away—a new but unutterably graceful undulation of torso and rhythmical leg work and exquisite sinuous motions of the arms and hands. H. R. There was a strange rhythmical throbbing in her ears. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days The mantle performs rhythmical respiratory movements of expansion and contraction, the water entering between funnel and mantle and passing out through the funnel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" This is a rhythmical incantation which is said Hymns. to have rendered the saint and his companions invisible to King Loigaire and his druids. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The works are all irregularly rhythmical and in many cases the lines are arranged like modern free verse, to call attention to this irregular rhythm. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In structure it may be compared to Walt Whitman's rhythmical prose. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. She loved the graceful, rhythmical movement of the waltz, the rapid whirling round and round which made her heart beat tumultuously, the languorous music which intoxicated. By Right of Conquest A Novel "Oh! you'd better, better, better burn this letter," or up went the cry in rhythmical measure— "James Gould Blaine, James Gould Blaine, He's the continental liar from the State of Maine." Fragments of an Autobiography We have seen that there is some reason for believing that the primitive form of Irish verse was a kind of rhythmical alliterative prose as contained in the oldest versions of the sagas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The earliest Teutonic verse was rather rhythmical prose, with some alliteration. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It is simply that dancing is for the most part a rhythmical pantomime of sex. The Book of This and That The verses in this collection are excellent; all of them are sweet and rhythmical.... Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 In William Morris, indeed, one finds a music smooth and unexacting like that of the old story-tellers, but not their energetic pleasure, their rhythmical wills. The Cutting of an Agate As he turned, the wind blew to him out of the valley a faint rhythmical chiming. The Garden of Eden All the poems of the Egyptians were written simply in rough, irregular lines of rhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His fingers closed and unclosed, with a mechanical and rhythmical movement, round a china figure. Bye-Ways Lowell's best prose—in "Fireside Travels," for example—has similar qualities, and adds to them a surprising delicacy of wit and subtilty of phrase, while it has less movement and less of rhythmical emphasis. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 The story is written in rhythmical prose, with passages where the rhythm has a more strongly accentuated quality as of unrhymed verse. An Outline of Russian Literature In front a great red glow as of numerous fires, and all his pulses were a-tingle with excitement and anticipation at the thunder of stamping feet, the roar of the rhythmical chant. Harley Greenoak's Charge All stories among ancient people were, however, originally told in prose; the first expression was always in rhythmical poetical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z That night weird sounds came floating up to their resting-place, a rhythmical distant roaring, now subsiding into silence, then bursting forth again, till it gathered volume like the rolling of thunder. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising A great noise arose without—voices—then the steady tramp of feet—the clash of weapons—and over and above all, the weird, thrilling rhythmical chant of the war-song. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Occasionally, his tones would almost die entirely away, then rise very high, and then modulate themselves with the strictest regard to rhythmical measure. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. The rhythmical tramp of the hexameter of Hellas and Rome, and the sustained strength of their great epics, re-appear in the disciplined tread of phalanx and legion, and the long-continued control of their rule. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde It is immaterial if you call vers libre rhythmical prose or a distinct verse form. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z In June 1545 was issued his Litany, which was substantially the same as that now in use, and shows his mastery of a rhythmical English style. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Mead, his future resplendent with �1,166 and its South Sea bubble, seemed to feel this rhythmical impulse. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday There are also additions of many light syllables, resulting almost, as Schipper observes, in rhythmical prose. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History A peculiar rhythmical effect is sought by the alternation of 4/4 and 3/4 time, three bars of the first being answered by two bars of the second. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers You have rhythmical and unrhythmical lines, regular and irregular arrangements of accents, all thrown together. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Yet few suspected him of giving utterance in rhythmical shape to his thoughts or feelings. The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University Then Amos would read the prayers in the rhythmical Indian dialect, and give a brief address of exhortation. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon It should not be forgotten, however, that a debt of gratitude is owed Mr. Lanier for having been one of the first to emphasize adequately the fact that verse, like music, is rhythmical sound. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The idea of adding rhythmical accompaniments to spoken words may have been suggested by a few well-set passages in the music to ‘Faust’ by Prince Radziwill. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Anglo-Saxon prose, then, often was rhythmical, and even arranged like free verse, but it became genuine poetry only when the element of ecstasy was present. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Somewhere in the room a small clock, or a watch, ticked quickly, with a little rhythmical, insisting accent on the fourth beat. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome Harry Sears, who was watching the engine, heard it lose a beat in its regular rhythmical throb. Madge Morton's Trust Both are forms of rhythmical art: music and verse are alike rhythmical sound. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It was called Proverbial Philosophy, and criticised life in rhythmical rather than metrical lines, with a great deal of orthodoxy. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) These poets, however, are merely less rhythmical than the alleged masters of blank verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The metres are various: all show rhythmical skill, and in all the verse has a swing which makes it singularly 360 effective when sung by a mass of voices. Studies in Contemporary Biography These stood in the group, making a slight movement with the feet and rhythmical quiver of the body as they sang. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) But when we know that they are part of a poem in five-stress verse, we can readjust them so as to approach more closely to the rhythmical scheme in our minds. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Even that slight rhythmical motion of her body seemed to bring her into perfect sympathy with the curious melody which was filling the hushed room. A Monk of Cruta The epic of Gilgash, the chief poem of the Babylonians, and the various hymns translated by Professor Langdon, are all in irregular rhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The brasswork scintillated, each cylinder was rhythmical, and a microscope would not have revealed one speck of dust on body or upholstery. Cynthia's Chauffeur These results apply not only to the speeches but also to the 356 philosophical writings and the more elaborate letters, and with modifications to other rhythmical prose, e.g. that of Pliny and Seneca. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" That poetry must be metrical or even rhythmical in movement, however, is what some have denied. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History G. M. B. Latin "Dante."—Is there not a literal Latin prose translation of Dante, somewhat rhythmical? Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc We have seen that critics find in the hymns of the Egyptians and Babylonians the irregular rhythm and parallelisms of the Psalms, in short, impassioned rhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The rhythmical pattern of the whole word becomes a familiar unit. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life The chief faults of this were excess of ornament, antithesis, alliteration and assonance, monotony of rhythm, and the insertion of words purely for rhythmical effect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Public opinion has been rhythmical with reference to its rise and fall above and below the mean line of truth. A Review of Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 1 The simplest things took a rhythmical quality in her mouth, and clung to the memory with an agreeable tenacity. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 All ancient Hebrew poetry was in rhythmical prose; prophecies, elegies, songs, hymns, parables, and dialogues. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Well and good; the cat is contentedly digesting her meal, and the X-ray picture shows her stomach to be making rhythmical churning movements. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life These are throughout rhythmical in character, like his speeches and philosophical works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" There is a certain department of verse-writing in which a cultivated class like the clergy would of necessity make its mark—that of rhythmical translation. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects It peered round the edge of the door, hesitated a moment, and then advanced with an odd rhythmical sort of motion. Jimbo A Fantasy Yet Professor Saintsbury has given us in his History of English Prose Rhythm some of the finest emotional and rhythmical passages from English prose writers. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He may make a rhythmical line of verse out of it; he may make a story out of it. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life I spied about, and found that at quite a distance away, near a low bosket of light green, a head covered by a yellow straw hat emerged and vanished again in rhythmical alternation. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Our early clerical versifiers set themselves rather to give rhythmical renderings to the romances and chronicles of their time. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects This was retained in the Prayer-book because the people had become familiar with it, and because it is more rhythmical and suited to chanting. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia His book practically convinces one that nearly all the great English writers of prose wrote not only rhythmical prose, but emotional or ecstatic prose, or poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The footsteps of a patrol which resounded rhythmical and sonorous in the distance, and the qui vive? of the sentinels, alone came to break the mournful silence which hung over the capital. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 Amid the mists of dream the reader cried to the rhythmical stars of her delight at the coming of a new age of song, a rebirth of Pan. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It is easy to understand how this fondness for the rhythmical was fostered by the aforesaid parental admiration, and how it was still further increased by the boy’s admiration, successively, for Scott and Byron. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects It was in the front row of the balcony, just where the curve reaches its outermost point, and, like a rounded headland, meets the unbroken flow of the long-rolling, invisible waves of rhythmical sound. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales If I say that rhythm is not necessary in poetry, I merely mean that no patterned or strong rhythm is necessary, for all prose is more or less irregularly rhythmical. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It's only our Victorian austerity which makes these rhythmical embraces so attractive. General Bramble This piece contains many of the rhythmical defects common to juvenile composition, but is pervaded by a naturalness and pastoral simplicity which promise well for its young author. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Of course there is no objection to real eloquence and one’s sentences should always be smooth and rhythmical. The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition The matter deserves earnest consideration, for,69 in what is known as the "rhythmical sense," Americans—as a people, in comparison with foreign nations—are still woefully deficient. Music: An Art and a Language Poetry is the soul of literature, and we should cease limiting the term to rhythmical or patterned productions, and apply it to emotional writing in general. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z If proportion, colour, and sound alike depend on certain mathematical measurements, and on rhythmical vibrations, there must be a real and tangible relation between these elements, though applied to obtain different results. Needlework As Art But he is a careless writer, and for the most part lacks the exquisite precision, the subtle wit, the rhythmical felicity, which make the couplets of Pope so memorable. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The verse does not seem to have been shaped; it might have grown: it takes no apparent heed of externals, but flows on like a brook, irregular, rhythmical, and always fluid and real. Whitman A Study As far back as we can trace the development of instrumental structure, there appears this instinct for varying a simple tune by embellishments of a rhythmical and melodic nature. Music: An Art and a Language The academic critics have found an argument for rhythm in the fact that when a man is moved, the expression of his emotions tends towards rhythmical language. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The third rising of this rhythmical constellation was seen in Connecticut a long time ago. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 He struck it with exquisite accuracy from a wide, free-handed rhythmical swing of his hammer. The Quality of Mercy The harmony began in the cheap paper on the walls, extended to bed and window draperies, and ended in the tissue-paper lamp-shade that at night lent a softened, rhythmical tone to the whole. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The engine purred softly for a rhythmical second, and the car slid quickly away from the door. Cloudy Jewel It is an easy matter to arrange any fine poetical prose in blank verse or irregular rhythmical lines. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z We may affirm, then, that musical sound, rhythmical or not, agitates the whole physical economy,—quickens the pulse, incites perspiration, and produces a pleasant momentary irritation of the nervous system. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 The rhythmical structure of his prose is carefully correct. Bunyan He could see a man tossing hay in a field near by, and he watched the rhythmical movement of his fork as it rose and fell. Changing Winds A Novel The rhythmical motion of the leg is simple, and on the Cuvierian hypothesis, should react on the body in some uniform way. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I In fact rhythmical emotional prose has been a thorn in the academic critic's side. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The bright circle is instantly replaced with a gushing stream of blood, pumping out in rhythmical bursts. Less than Human You move simply, inevitably, so that every gesture is rhythmical, and like a musical accompaniment to the words.... Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists He was scarcely conscious of controlling his muscles; his arms seemed to work of themselves in rhythmical sweep. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Further down the street they were singing in a low rhythmical chant the National Anthem. The Traitors In fact, the blank verse of the later Elizabethan dramatists is really prose, for it is less rhythmical than that of Shakespeare. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z 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. Many of Burns's poems have had music set to them; but he began his rhythmical career by fitting poetry to music. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The sound, accompanied by steps, oaths, and a rhythmical drop and shudder, continued farther along the shore. Mr. Wicker's Window Nothing can exceed the beauty of the language, the rhythmical flow of the periods, and the harmony of the style. The Life of Cicero Volume II. The poem became nothing more than rhythmical prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The rhythmical, resounding hoof-beats made exhilarating music for their ears, and now and again Ellhorn’s yell went calling across the empty darkness or the sound of Mead’s or Tuttle’s gun cleft the air. With Hoops of Steel "As soon as the expression is fixed in rhythmical form its contagious power is incalculably increased." Introduction to the Science of Sociology And then the Courtyard, with the mass of upturned faces and waving hands, slowly sank to the rhythmical beating of the storks' wings as they obeyed the order, "To the Palace of Clairdelune." In Brief Authority It is experienced simultaneously with the occurrence of the rhythmical muscular contractions which have previously been described. The Sexual Life of the Child We have two other proofs that poetry was in early times written in rhythmical prose, or at least in a rhythm that makes only a slight approach to metre. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But his acts had been wholly in disregard of the rhythmical and regular conventions which he should thus have associated with himself. Hurricane Island A group of broad dark lines intersected it, arranged at intervals diminishing regularly upward, and falling into a rhythmical succession with the visible hydrogen lines. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition And as for the poets, they are your cousins; and you don't despise their forms of language and their rhythmical mechanism when you want to make an impression on the idle crowd. Famous Women: George Sand Homer's words seem to indicate that the rhythmical motion was not limited to the legs, as in our modern dances, but extended to the upper part of the body and the arms. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Dr. Guest adds that in his opinion this rhythmical prose was one of the instruments in breaking up the alliterative system of the Anglo-Saxons. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His right hand, resting on the table near which he sat, softly closed and opened, opened and closed its supple muscular fingers, with a curious, rhythmical movement. The Dop Doctor Natural selection, the survival of such individuals and species as best work in with, are most rhythmical to, their surroundings—natural selection sees to that. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life From midnight on, we hear the clear, rhythmical, melancholy intonation of the precentor, the congregation responding in a monotonous recitative. Jewish Literature and Other Essays This oscillatory movement has not the fiery precipitation of that of the Cantharides; it is calmer and as it were rhythmical. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The passage he cites, however, is no more rhythmical than many passages in modern English prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It may or may not have a connection with the stanzas following, but its function is to give them their rhythmical model. Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes Charms or incantations often took rhythmical form—verses, couplets, or quatrains were widely used. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The dramatis person� of this first Hebrew drama are ab238stractions, devoid of dramatic life, mere allegorical personifications, but the underlying idea is poetic, and the Hebrew style pure, euphonious, and rhythmical. Jewish Literature and Other Essays The great fellow came along with rapid, rhythmical step, with supple limbs and chest hunched forward. Fantômas He wants prose not to be cast in metre or rhythm but simply to appear rhythmical and metrical; the metres and rhythms must be unobstrusively introduced. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The drums and gongs meanwhile beat a rhythmical time, which makes the heaviest heels long to move more quickly, and the onlookers whooped and yelled again and again in shrill far-sounding chorus. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula This division of the different times is intended to prevent the rhythmical divergences which might easily take place among the performers during the interval which separates one beat from the other. The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art A detachment of forty sabres followed in their wake; and the rhythmical clatter rang monotonously in their ears. Captain Desmond, V.C. There was no sound to be heard from within the compartments except the snoring of a few travellers and the monotonous, rhythmical noise of the wheels passing over the joints of the rails. Fantômas The Romans occasionally indulged in it, but they generally used rhythmical prose, as the reader of Cicero and Livy will observe. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He had given her plenty of work to do, and the rhythmical tap-tap of her typewriter came faintly through the door which separated the outer from the inner office. Bones in London This retardment, multiplied by the number of strokes which follow the first one, soon produces—as may be imagined—a rhythmical discrepancy of the most fatal effect. The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art Written down this seems a mere unintelligible jumble, but could we hear it, as sounded by the pipers, with due regard for the rhythmical value of notes, it would be a very different matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Wyatt's awkwardness is not limited to the decasyllable, but some of his short poems in short lines recover rhythmical grace very remarkably, and set a great example. A History of Elizabethan Literature The prose of every literature is full of poetry, even concentrated poetry, more or less rhythmical. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z As their enthusiasm increased the greater became their rhythmical movements. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon The metre is unusual, if indeed it be metre and not rhythmical prose. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 There was no violence, no leaping, no quick steps; rather a turning and bending, a slow sweep of the arm, a walking a little more rhythmical, on the verge, at most, of running. Appearances Being Notes of Travel Poetry, more closely defined, is the poetical expressed in rhythmical language. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Prose poetry was consciously written by Lord Beaconsfield, who tells us in the early preface to his novel, Alroy, that he was trying to write rhythmical prose poetry in that novel. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The orchestra takes up their suggestion and turns it into a simple monotonous strongly rhythmical air—never long silent in this scene—which comes to mean for us the little toiling Nibelungs, the cunning smiths. The Wagnerian Romances These run in rhythmical prose, that almost throughout falls into metrical lines, which the English reader may easily discriminate for himself. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 And in my ears I hear the twang of the guitar, the rhythmical clapping of hands and the castanets, as two girls dance in the sunlight on a holiday. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia They are, when properly presented, rhythmical to the point of perfection. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study After all, they do not differ much from the rhythmical prose in which the poetry of Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Hebrews was written. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z A girl was singing indifferently, and when she stopped, Miss Allonby raised her head as a rhythmical sound became audible through the closing chords of the piano. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter The drummer, with his round instrument resting on one knee, beat the parchment with rhythmical strokes, while his companion blew on a long, wooden flute, carved with primitive designs. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan And this criticism applies especially to the poetry of Rossetti, which produces so many of its best effects by means not of logical statement, but of the music and suggestive richness of rhythmical language. Old Familiar Faces A sound, deep, sonorous, now rhythmical, now confused. The Ghost Girl We see thus that rhythmical prose was the first language wherein poetry was written, and that hampering metre is always late in the literary development of a nation. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z They are always rhythmical, and usually rimed, varying in length from a couplet to an endless improvisation. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs His poetry, extremely straightforward and rhythmical, has often degenerated into cheap sentimentalities and cheaper tirades; it has frequently attempted to express programs and profundities far beyond Noyes's power. Modern British Poetry In Quichua poetry, the lines are short, and seldom thoroughly rhythmical. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Whether the Guernsey's exceptional steadiness solicits approval, or if the rapid rhythmical movements in handling arms—quicker than is customary with other regiments—pleases the Official Eye cannot be accurately gauged. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry There came the sound of light, swift steps; he could hear them in spite of the rhythmical surge of the sea; and then the door was opened by his sister-in-law, Madame Baudoin, herself. Studies in love and in terror Bluebird, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless, endless improvisation, in which are woven the "calls" of the dance, beginning: Yonder goes the bluebird through the window Down in Tennessee. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs Poetry is writing thus constituted by the metrical or rhythmical structure of its sentences; and is not necessarily any more figurative or obscure than prose writing. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse The singers and dancers in the center of the great throng began their weird chants and slow rhythmical steps. The Sheep Eaters The strong, rhythmical dip of oars suddenly beat through the fog. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good At first Joe and I could hear nothing, but presently we detected the rhythmical beat of the hoofs of a horse approaching at a smart canter. The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado There was a swift patter of heralding drops, and then a steady, rhythmical drumming on the shake roof. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories A rhythmical movement of the body in the dance shows more internality than the athletic game, but it is less hardy, is more indicative of luxury and effeminacy. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary There was no point of interest in all this rhythmical meandering whereon the hapless young nobleman could fix his attention. Vixen, Volume III. Henry, as he swam, with the strong, circular sweep of a single arm, listened, and he heard the rhythmical sweep of the paddles growing louder. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" His speeches have a freedom and a rhythmical flow which captivate the hearer. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Her partner was a perfect dancer, and this new, delicious waltz—inspiriting yet languorous, rhythmical and half barbaric—sent a keen feeling of joy and of zest into Crystal's whole being. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days And yet, his own prose was rhythmical, and often as tumid as the worst bombast in Macpherson. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. Then, without dying out, it was reinforced by another sound, rhythmical, abrupt, twanging, filling the water and air with a slow measure on four notes. Edge of the Jungle She sat like a statue in the trap while the train puffed its way slowly up the gradient and its noise died away in a rhythmical rumble. The Tragic Bride At the back of the pirogue, a man stood erect, holding in his hands a bunch of herbs, raising them above his head, with a rhythmical movement. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century For another quarter of a mile the distance remained the same, and the silence was unbroken except by the rhythmical beating of hoofs through the rustling, matted mesquite. 'Drag' Harlan The Landhofmeisterin's own musicians discoursed rhythmical strains from the gallery, and a gay motley crowd moved on the inlaid polished floor. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Thereafter her transformations were rhythmical, alternating with the day and night. Edge of the Jungle At any rate we preferred trusting to our own, and adopted, as I shall afterwards mention, a mode of testing rhythmical cadence that could hardly have been improved upon. Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture The rhythmical movement of dancing couples could be heard quite distinctly. The Goose Man The borders of early, ancient, and classical art might be said to be little besides rhythmical and logical arrangements of line. Line and Form (1900) Nott's, Southey in his Life of Cowper has explained in set terms—a verse for which the number of beats or accents is ruled is rhythmical—for example, the verse of Coleridge's Christabel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 It was no bird, and there was nothing of the bat in its flight—the wings moved with steady rhythmical beats, and drove it straight onward. Edge of the Jungle Notwithstanding, we find that words were chosen for their descriptive power, and that they were made rhythmical to fit the melody. Indian Story and Song from North America The piece opened with a quiet rhythmical, mournful movement, which suddenly changed to a raging presto. The Goose Man Moreover, no poems suffer greater loss in translation than Dante's, for in no others is there so intimate a relation between the expression and the feeling, between the rhythmical form and the poetic substance. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 They are, doubtless, vestiges of the old rhythmical forms; and we may readily allow that English versification had not, in the fifteenth or even sixteenth centuries, the numerical regularity of classical or Italian metre. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 What the Wagnerite calls rhythmical is what I call, to use a Greek metaphor, “stirring a swamp.” The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Odysseus looked on and greatly admired the swift and rhythmical movements of their feet. Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece Before all else he is a master of his instrument, an inventor of new effects and movements of the lyre; in his hands the entire rhythmical system was renewed or was purified. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Harmony is attained by the choice of euphonious words, and by their arrangement in an agreeable or rhythmical order. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism First they walked, then ambled, then gradually they formed into lines and trotted in their former rhythmical fashion. Chatterbox, 1906 Thus, the reading of the Koran, with rhythmical intonation, as practised in every mosque, had in their eyes no value. Mystics and Saints of Islam It is a kind of rhythmical prose, governed by laws of its own, which it carefully observes. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 The decasyllabic line, derived originally from popular Latin verse, rhythmical rather than metrical, such as the Roman legionaries sang, is the favourite verse of the older chansons. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The light that reaches us from distant worlds comes to us in rhythmical wavelets. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism And sudden in my heart began to play Echoes of old romance, and all my feet Fluttered responsive to the name's sheer beauty, So rhythmical and fluty. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 Ritual gains further strength when it is rhythmical, and is connected with music, verse, or other rhythmical arts. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals In the one passage is the gay and skilfully light paradox, in the other the clean, rhythmical, and balanced, yet dramatic and appropriate English that are elements of Congreve’s style. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] In his versification he attained new and alluring harmonies; he escaped from the rhythmical uniformity of eighteenth-century verse, gliding sinuously from line to line and from strophe to strophe. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The rippling of the forest stream within its shady banks of fern, the rhythmical roll and heavy roar of the ocean surges, are the poetry of the sparkling waters. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Like the glory of ripened corn, It filleth the air through sunshine and shade; And from twilight till peep of morn Is a rhythmical pulse in the dreamful night, That of satisfied life seems born. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Acts are ritually repeated at the recurrence of the rhythmical points. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Before Rome was founded the Etruscan race, who flourished in what is now modern Tuscany, had the Books of the Tages fashioned in rhythmical mould, from which their traditions, ordinances, and religious teachings were drawn. A History of Nursery Rhymes The accent, which is very arbitrary in the Russian language, is indicated unmistakably in a rhythmical composition. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse The rhythmical pause occurring in a line is called a cæsura. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism And as Polly sang on and on, light opera airs, rhythmical barcarolles, songs of the people, with their naïve, swinging cadence, a new, exultant sense of power seemed lifting her above her own level. A Venetian June Dreamily, dreamily, sounded the rhythmical music; heavily, so heavily hung the perfume in the air! Under the Rose North and south the mountains fell away in an undulating rhythmical sameness, with no abrupt gorges to break in and destroy the poetry of their scroll against the sky. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills They seemed to be in an immense cave, and the tide was broken into cross-currents rushing violently to the accompaniment of rhythmical thunder. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea For you see," said the voice, and in the darkness its accents took on a slow, rhythmical sombreness, like the swish of a sword in a shuttered room, "this was far worse than the leaves. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The contraction of the auricles is quickly followed by that of the ventricles, and then a slight pause occurs; this takes place in regular rhythmical order during health. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Now studying that pantomimic group of merrymakers, in the rhythmical expression of action and movement could almost be read the influence and relative positions of the fair revelers. Under the Rose Her stoical eyelids were lowered, and she moved with the rhythmical motion of the smoothing-iron. The Mothers Of Honoré From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 These were almost incessant, sometimes slow and almost rhythmical, then for a minute or two rapid and irregular, seeming to fatigue the little fellow, and accompanied by a fretful, whimpering cry. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Thus we have learned to scan lines by iambuses, or rather by their accentual imitations, and a perfect line would consist of ten syllables, of which the alternate ones bore a rhythmical stress. The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising Oh, the wild glee in his rhythmical song Sung in the motion that keeps him along! Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State He slept every night at the foot of my bed, and very soothing it was to hear his deep rhythmical breathing in the darkness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 The bare trees swayed and moved slowly in the wind with the rhythmical motion of aquatic plants under moving water. Paul Patoff The music of the wind is in it, and a peculiarly free, rhythmical swing, suggestive of the swirling lariat. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Do they speculate on the never-ending fascination of the leaning walls of water, the rhythmical melody of the rasp and hiss of the water? Pipefuls Anacreon, too, from his rhythmical lips The honey of Hybla distilled, And Herodotus suffered a partial eclipse, While Horace with music was filled. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries In course of time, passion awoke in the surrounding harmonies, the rhythmical surprises, the gorgeousness of costume and scenery. Artists' Wives The question therefore comes to this: Does the sustained, the cantilena, predominate, or the rhythmical movement? Essentials in Conducting Browne started the Toreador's song, and all began to beat upon the tables with their spoons in rhythmical clamor. A Daughter of the Middle Border The musician combines sounds more significant, ordered, and rhythmical than those miscellaneous noises which, in ordinary experience, beat indifferently or painfully upon our ears. Human Traits and their Social Significance If he has little of the passion or fluency of Swinburne, he has some of his phrase-making skill, and he is free from that rhythmical lilt which in Swinburne was often excessive. Personality in Literature He was light upon his feet, and he advanced with a rhythmical step. The Coast of Bohemia He drifted presently through the room, looking for Bettina, and just as the music began again its rhythmical beat he saw her. Glory of Youth But in any case it is certain that no fragment of a few lines can convey a full impression of the rhythmical, intellectual, imaginative unity of the Miltonic paragraph or section. Milton The poet selects words whose specific music, rhythmical combinations, and lyrical context produce a something more evocative, compelling, and euphonic than the casual and raucous instrument of communication which constitutes ordinary speech. Human Traits and their Social Significance His sense of verbal colour and verbal music is beyond criticism; his rhythmical capacity is something prodigious. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation His mouth was closed, but his nostrils seemed undergoing a rhythmical contraction and distension most interesting and unusual. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories There is not only rhythmical alternation of the lower limbs and of the movements of the weight from foot to foot but all the lines of the body alternate rhythmically. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions The sense, and especially the musical effect, is incomplete with less; for a Miltonic period is a series of intellectual and rhythmical actions and reactions which cannot be detached from each other without loss. Milton The rhythmical flow, here, is even voluptuous—nothing could be more melodious. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American All over the country we meet with these rhyming or rhythmical formulæ which have legal significance. Folklore as an Historical Science When he began to write blank verse, the blank verse of the dramatists, his contemporaries, was fast degenerating into more or less rhythmical prose. Milton Certainly, it seems as though thought has to become in a profound sense rhythmical, has to take to itself the nature of music, before it can become the truth. The Complex Vision And then, after six more verses of rhythmical chaff, this prophetic stanza: And howsoe'er profusely flow The tea and coffee round the board, The hospitality you show Shall nowise lack its due reward. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Miss White has a charming knack of writing musical verse, simple, rhythmical, delightful. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 Page 92—signifiance amended to significance—"... rhythmical formulæ which have legal significance." Folklore as an Historical Science His ear for the sweep and texture of harmonies, for the building up of rhythmical structure, is not seconded by an ear for the delicacies of sound in words or in tunes. Figures of Several Centuries So far as the relative value of the notes is concerned, it is entirely ad libitum, the rhythmical figure in the orchestra having ceased one half-bar before. Style in Singing It is clear now that all language is more or less definitely rhythmical; and that the two fundamental and determining elements of speech-rhythm are time and stress. The Principles of English Versification They had gone quite half-way before the regular rhythmical beat of oars, and the splash and rattle of water beneath the gig’s bows were heard. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle He spoke in the rhythmical way of Tennesseans, emphasizing the auxiliary verbs beyond their usual value. The Eagle's Heart Poetry Poe defined as 'the rhythmical creation of beauty'; and the first element of poetry he found in 'the thirst for supernal beauty.' Figures of Several Centuries This modification is all the more defensible, as the composer has substituted the orchestra, with the strings tremolo, for the rhythmical harp-figure with which he accompanies the phrase on its first and second presentations. Style in Singing Each of the twelve books is a single organic rhythmical structure. The Principles of English Versification The men lay motionless; only by their deep, rhythmical breathing could one know that they were alive. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life Is there one who cares for these artists and for their rhythmical gesture more than myself? Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets For a minute that other door remained open, but the rhythmical snoring continued, and at last the latch was heard to close. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date The allusions to "little Robert"—evidently William Roscoe's son—do not occur in the former, and many slight improvements, tending to make the verses more rhythmical and flowing, are introduced. The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast Accent should be distinguished from stress, which is the rhythmical emphasis in a series of sounds. The Principles of English Versification Having introduced this not altogether gratuitous description of a spot celebrated in America for its picturesque situation and horrors, I resume the rhythmical tale of the chief of the Roanokes. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 But we look for our artist in vain these days, those groups whose one art is the exquisite rhythmical display of the human body, concerted muscular melody. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Kingsley's "Andromeda"—it is really a splendid rhythmical piece of hexameter—and some of his Life. Letters to His Friends Closer analysis reveals certain additional facts: The "time" of such internal tunes is usually dictated by some rhythmical subconscious occurrence. The Story of the Mind In prose the rhythmical stress is determined almost wholly by accent; in verse the two sometimes coincide and sometimes differ markedly. The Principles of English Versification These of course determine his selection of rhythmical character, of time, key, movement, etc. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. It is the logic of rhythmical equation felt there, almost exclusively. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets And he goes on to connect the failing with Lamb's utter insensibility to music, and indifference to 'the rhythmical in prose composition.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) It is not surprising that that steady, rhythmical rise and fall suggested to some imaginative minds the breathing of a mighty animal. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told The verse, whether narrative or elegiac, runs in rhythmical periods; the sense is not "concluded in the couplet." Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature She adored all the modern Italian poets, and read their verse with that stately and rhythmical fulness of voice which often made it sublime and always pleasing. A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories He dispensed with the photographic attitude toward objectivity and yet at the same time held to the pleasing rhythmical shapes in nature. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets |
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