Let us also hope for a long silence to descend upon the thuggish bigmouth who has strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage for far too long. |
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It was a false scent, but ahead of him the horses grew restive, jostling and nipping, and the grey fretted against his hand. |
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Our lutenist blew onto his fingers, our drummer fretted over his chilly skins, our soprano shrank into her mufflers. |
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I have fretted that some journalists might take it upon themselves to spread the vile contagion of conscience. |
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So he stared, and thought, and fretted as she grew increasingly more antsy. |
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The interior is further illuminated by slatted or fretted skylights while lower down, translucent canopies act as light diffusors. |
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His name was Sir John Cliseton, and he bore for arms a field argent, fretted azure, with a mullet argent in chief. |
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Her parents and relations fretted over her for days as she lay in bed, burning with fever. |
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He would often visit them on the weekends and constantly fretted about their well-being. |
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Justice Kennedy fretted that building a business on this was morally questionable, which is also true. |
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Late medieval screens were frequently carved in an exuberant Gothic style with fretted tracery, pinnacles, and arcades. |
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She fretted pacing the small empty space of the mosaic floor, occasionally looking out of the window at the crowd on the front lawn. |
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When an open note is followed by a fretted note on the same string, it is damped when the fretted note is formed. |
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She recognized that frantic terror in the whiteness of his face and the way his hands fretted in his lap. |
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I mean I've fretted over the cost for seven months now, right? |
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The pipa is a plucked string instrument with a fretted fingerboard. |
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I had fretted at night concerned that he was feeling lonely. |
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The post-war period was stressful for the king who fretted constantly. |
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The ability of fretted instruments to play chords and drive a piece along rhythmically has done a lot to change the range of sound in Irish music over the past 30 years. |
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The breakup of the party began when a comment about Jaco Pastorius led to a discussion about fretted versus fretless basses, and which Pastorius album was his best. |
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When paramedics finally took the woman away, he fretted powerlessly. |
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As I fretted over whether it was safe for her ingest the body paint, she extolled its benefits. |
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Rivers told me in both 2010 and 2014 that, when thinking about dying herself, she fretted most about her daughter Melissa. |
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The Maritimes fretted that they would be thrust out in the cold if the Grand Trunk project went ahead. |
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The lid takes the form of a fretted dome, decorated with interlacing foliage elements and surmounted by an open rosette encrusted with coral. |
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Consumer groups fretted that if Comcast were to grow any bigger it would eventually strangle the competition. |
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Unlike a piano, for example, a fretted instrument can produce the same note at different positions. |
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The whole is covered by a fretted plate equipped with curved needles that refer to 26 stars. |
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The mountain dulcimer is a fretted instrument that generally has 3 strings and about 20 frets. |
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If I'd conserved my left breast, I'd have fretted for the rest of my life, however long or short it might be that the cancer would recur there. |
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If the fretted note is sharp compared to the flageolet note, move the bridge saddle back to lengthen the string. |
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The index can also touch the string above the rosace and in this case we play two octaves above the fretted note. |
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For too many years, Canadians have fretted about the state of their revered healthcare system. |
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Some aide fretted to Tamiroff that this meant big trouble, but the boss was nonchalant. |
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Behind the scenes, he threw spectacular parties, fretted over his ratings, and stayed loyal to his friends. |
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Meg took it and drank slowly, careful not to spill any on her dress, while Mrs. Carroll fretted around the pair, nervously fidgeting with the bottom tier of the gown. |
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I fretted as we trundled slowly home in a rather despondent way. |
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She fretted, she told me years later, convinced that my new soles had taken their earthly leave from my boots with me still perched perilously on some rock face in the clouds. |
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It is interesting to note that business sentiment surveys remained constructive even when nerves were frayed on the markets and when investors fretted about the eurozone growth outlook. |
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The boys fraternized with the crowd at Arnold's Malt Shop, where they sipped floats, dumped dimes into the jukebox, fretted about girls, and lamented the minor misunderstandings they had with their parents. |
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For much of the history of the convention, states parties had fretted over concerns of noncompliance and the lack of any machinery in the convention to verify compliance or investigate alleged breaches. |
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Finally one day Max ate too many avocados, a new treat, and he fretted and cried inconsolably because he had a bellyache. |
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Some critics even fretted about his drab clothes. |
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In the 50s, Invasion of the Body Snatchers fretted about McCarthyism. |
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Then Condy promptly got the hiccoughs from drinking his tea too fast, and fretted up and down the room like a chicken with the pip. |
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The deposit was determined to be fretted material. |
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If your guitar plays well on fretted strings but annoys you on the open ones, the nut's probably worn out. |
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Stephen Breyer, for example, fretted about the possible fate under the law of a jogger carrying only a driver's licence from New Mexico, a state that borders Arizona and used to issue licences to illegal immigrants. |
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He resigned after the first revived Dr Who series, as the poor luvvie fretted over being typecast. |
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Another kind of instrument, called a fretted string instrument, uses an ingenious system to shorten the strings in a simpler way for the performer. |
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Like a lute, a gamba's neck is fretted, and it has six or seven strings tuned in fourths around a central third, rather than the fifths of a cello. |
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Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index plunged 4.1 per cent as investors fretted about the outlook for the U. S. economy, Japan's biggest export market. |
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Adjust until both fretted note and flageolet are identical in pitch. |
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He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed. |
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Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation. |
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