Once, while I was playing a piece called " Run Run, " he stopped me, got down on all fours, and crawled around the room prestissimo . ❋ Byron Janis (2010)
As staged here, prestissimo, it's a Darwinian contest for center stage. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And as finally, the boy had won a round of plaudits for the manner in which he kept each muscle of the body in full exercise whilst dancing, so now the jester, bidding the flute-girl quicken the time (presto! presto! prestissimo!), fell to capering madly, tossing legs and arms and head together, until he was fairly tired out, and threw himself dead beat upon the sofa, gasping: ❋ Unknown (2007)
A splendid, sixteenfold error in multiplication which gives so much beauty to our awakening and makes life begin again on a different scale, like those great changes of rhythm which, in music, mean that in an andante a quaver has the same duration as a minim in a prestissimo, and which are unknown in our waking state. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Toothaches can play it staccato, glissando, accelerando, prestissimo, and above all fortissimo. ❋ Unknown (2000)
No sooner is one strain ended than it is suddenly taken up again in the _prestissimo_ time and "slowed" down to the same dismal conclusion. ❋ Various (N/A)
-- He said, _con strepito_, "Den pring up te Tinner _prestissimo_, I am de gombany." ❋ Various (N/A)
First Act is good; the Second is the best; but the Third is like the last figure in an after-supper early-in-the-morning Lancers, ending in a whirligig _galop_, when everything is fast and furious, and just the tune and its measure taken _prestissimo_ and _fortissimo_ keep the couples going till everybody is breathless and exhausted. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ditto, for concealing a lover in a closet, and the sudden appearance of the father, guardian, or husband, as the case may be -- a _prestissimo_ movement, with an agitated _cadenza_. ❋ Various (N/A)
I see Gaetano: will be back again _prestissimo! _ ' ❋ Various (N/A)
_Presto_, _prestissimo_, _vivacissimo_, and _prestissimo possibile_ -- the most rapid tempo possible. ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)
And so the torrent of passionate exultation swept Helen onward with it until the very end, the last frantic prestissimo chorus, and then she sprang to her feet and flung up her hands with a cry. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
In a prestissimo fire of joy, the novel exercise reached its finale, when ... ❋ Thomas Burke (1915)
Sebastiano quickened the time till he was playing it prestissimo. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
The climax of it is a furious prestissimo, at which the couples seize hands and begin a mad whirling. ❋ Unknown (1906)
He played the first movement prestissimo, the andante allegro and the rondo prestissimo with a vengeance. ❋ Kerst, Friedrich (1905)
Here the baby was kissed crescendo, prestissimo, till he laughed more than ever. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
He did it _crescendo, fortissimo, prestissimo, strabato and con molto expressione_; he played on his knuckles with a virtuosity of which I have never seen the like. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
It was followed by a blood-hound-like bay from Sir Christopher, a maniacal prestissimo on the organ, and loud cries, for Jimmy. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Chopin pupil, M. Georges M.thias, and he did not take it prestissimo. ❋ James Huneker (1890)
