Crotchets

Miss Balquidder had, like most folk, her opinions or "crotchets" -- as they might be -- and one of them was, to keep her business and friendly relations entirely distinct and apart. ❋ Unknown (1864)

It will be noticed that the form of the notes is the same whether whole or divided into fractions; that is, there are no different forms for "crotchets," "quavers," "semiquavers," etc., the expression of time being better provided for. ❋ Various (N/A)

"The Fry Chronicles" is so slickly charming it seems churlish to harrumph, so I'll merely take a page out of Mr. Fry's book to comment that his compilation of crotchets can be both compelling and cockamamie. ❋ Alexandra Mullen (2012)

Kael needs to be read the way she wrote: in bulk with all her crotchets, perversities and forgotten controversies intact. ❋ Lee Sandlin (2011)

Now those personal crotchets are being offered as authorized standards, as if you could decree the tune the language is obliged to dance to. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also thanks to Kath Wilham at Aqueduct for typesetting the lot, picking up syntactical and other errors, putting up with my punctuation and other crotchets, and coming up with the idea of pictures for the cover, along with the sub-title. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are signs of the latter's influence within Pedro de Cristo's music, including a fondness for narrow overall ranges 16 notes being typical in the works of Francisco de Santa Maria and in the early part of Pedro de Cristo's surviving output, syllabic declamation in crotchets, and the simultaneous use of a cambiata figure in one part and passing notes in another. ❋ Lu (2009)

At the risk of making us all sound like the speakers in a dramatic monologue, our tics, crotchets, hobby-horses, and what-have-you all have a bad habit of manifesting themselves when we least expect it--and, often enough, without us knowing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the other sources one can trace the emergence of more distinctive stylistic traits, particularly in the field of rhythm, where Pedro de Cristo developed the above-mentioned penchant for declamation and, occasionally, harmonic motion in crotchets, which was relatively rare in Portugal at that period; this characteristic is found particularly in polychoral works such as the 8th-tone setting of the Magnificat and the hymn Sanctorum meritis. ❋ Lu (2009)

But I am bound to dispose of it according to the will of the donor; and at any rate, you are not entitled to call for it until you come to years of discretion; a period from which you are six years distant, according to law, and which, in one sense, you will never reach at all, unless you alter your present unreasonable crotchets. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the last four crotchets of those two bars the harps 1 & 2 (not any string) play (p, piano) four ascending triplets as follows: Aflat-Eflat-Aflat, C-Eflat-Aflat, C-Eflat-Aflat, C-Eflat-Aflat. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2008)

I say to myself, ‘You are taking a lot of trouble, poor old chap; working to pile one silver crown on another, you will leave a fine property behind you, and the bailiffs and the lawyers will get it all; ... or else it will go in nonsensical notions and crotchets.’ — ❋ Unknown (2007)

He drew, as it were, for his mental album, a series of portraits of these folk, with their angular, wrinkled faces, and hooked noses, their crotchets and ludicrous eccentricities of dress, portraits which possessed all the racy flavor of truth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some moderns, e.g. Carlyle (Ruskin perhaps) inherit it, and in lieu of Hellenic slavery we have a good many caste-distinction crotchets still left. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It also keeps you from taking the crotchets of the early 21st century too seriously, which is all to the good. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)

The great ladies of old flaunted their love-affairs, with newspapers and advertisements; in these days the lady has her little passion neatly ruled like a sheet of music with its crotchets and quavers and minims, its rests, its pauses, its sharps to sign the key. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That dude became [crotcheted] over a hair color he didn’t like. One might ask what set his crotch [ablaze] or put his [panties in a bunch] but I much prefer asking what got him crotcheted. ❋ SpitFire4Truth (2020)

A local craft shop saw a mysterious rise in the number of [crochet] hooks sold. All was explained when the craft shop owner visited the local [body piercing] studio and saw an [artisan] crotchet the young ladies labia. ❋ Pornhorn50 (2010)

1) "He played [the piece] very [fluently] and didn't leave a [crotchet] out of beat." 2) "Oh Yeah! Gimme the [Crotchet]!" ❋ X-T-C (2017)

Man, you were so awesome at crotcheting [yesterday], I [still feel] [the burns]. ❋ Alksolo (2005)

1. "Mary crocheted [my sweater]." 2. "Oh my god! Look at that guys huge [crotchet]! That thing could [blast] a hole through my bedroom wall!" ❋ Shadow Link (Tyler) (2005)

[look at that] [old] crotchet, she's got a [good haul] today. ❋ Gay-potato (2019)

Mike: What'd you do with your [leftovers] bro? Ted: [Gravy] Crotchett Mike: [Nice dude] ❋ Kimbeardactyl (2013)