This presented to the eye, something in the nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of angels. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mersál, the Boruji, performed a wild solo on his bugle; and another negro, Ahmed el-Shinnáwi, played with the Nái or reed-pipe one of those monotonous and charming minor-key airs — I call them so for want of a word to express them — which extend from Midian to Trafalgar, and which find their ultimate expression in the lovely Iberian Zarzuela. 28 The boy ❋ Unknown (2003)
I have a little reed-pipe, and when I blow on it the mullet come sailing into the bay. ❋ Unknown (1998)
His voice trailed off as a liquid spill of reed-pipe music came gliding across the quiet night air. ❋ De Lint, Charles, 1951- (1985)
First Pan played; he blew on his reed-pipe, and out came a tune so wild and yet so coaxing that the birds hopped from the trees to get near; the squirrels came running from their holes; and the very trees swayed as if they wanted to dance. ❋ Sara Cone Bryant (N/A)
And the sound of his reed-pipe was so sweet that he grew proud, and believed himself greater than the chief musician of the gods, Apollo, the sun-god. ❋ Sara Cone Bryant (N/A)
A few days ago, someone had described in the "Children's Hour" how to make a reed-pipe out of a jointed wheat-stalk, or, failing that, out of a drinking straw with a blob of sealing wax at one end. ❋ Unknown (1939)
So they carried him home between them and administered liquid food through a reed-pipe. ❋ Arthur Waley (1927)
Sunday afternoon he sat huddled up in a big, fluffy osier-bush, down by the lake, and blew on a reed-pipe. ❋ Unknown (1922)
I never saw any musical instruments such as the tom-tom or reed-pipe which were known to the more advanced Jívaros. ❋ Unknown (1923)
The man cried in vain until he was tired of it, and played his flute [a reed-pipe] more and more searchingly in a very beautiful rippling melody, and [at last] drove away. ❋ B. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu (1920)
And the sound of his reed-pipe was so sweet that he grew proud, and believed himself greater than the chief musician of the gods, Apollo, the son-god. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Then a tom-tom began to beat its nervous pulse-stirring throb, the strident notes of a reed-pipe joined in and the dancer, raised on her toes on the dais, began to sway languorously to and fro. ❋ Valentine Williams (1914)
The orchestra -- two violins, a reed-pipe, a biniou, and a harp -- were playing away with might and main. ❋ Unknown (1899)
She accosted him in the soft tones that had from the first so charmed him, contrasting with her sister's voice as the tones of a reed-pipe contrast with those from metal, or as the full voice of the cuckoo with the shrill chirp of the sparrow. ❋ Lily Dougall (1890)
Art, if it be anything, is the perpetual uplifting of what is beautiful in the sight of the multitudes -- the perpetual adoration of that loveliness, material and moral, which men in the haste and the greed of their lives are everlastingly forgetting: unless it be that it is empty and useless as a child's reed-pipe when the reed is snapt and the child's breath spent. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
