Endless sarabands ran through her head, and, like an Indian dancing girl on the flowers of a carpet, her thoughts leapt with the notes, swung from dream to dream, from sadness to sadness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
California swore and prayed, and Portland shouted advice, and I did all three for what appeared to be half a day, but was in reality a little over a quarter of an hour, and sullenly our fish came home with spurts of temper, dashes head-on, and sarabands in the air; but home to the bank came he, and the remorseless reel gathered up the thread of his life inch by inch. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
For two hours they had enchanted one another with their discourse, when the sound of music, of guitars and flutes playing minuets, sarabands, allemandes, and the Spanish dances which the young Queen had brought into fashion, the continual passing of groups of young ladies and their joyous laughter, all announced that the ball had commenced. ❋ Various (N/A)
At the same time, in the musical world, Corelli was writing his jigs and sarabands, Geminiani penning one of the first instruction books for the Violin, and Tartini dreaming his "Sonata del Diavolo"; and while Guadagnini and the stars of lesser magnitude were exercising their calling, Viotti, the originator of a school of Violin-playing, was writing his concertos, and Boccherini laying the foundation of classical chamber-music of a light and pleasing character. ❋ George Hart (N/A)
And seeming to walk, they tread strange sarabands. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Beatrice watched, like a contented child, the dancing showers of sparks that rose, wavering and whirling in complex sarabands -- sparks red as passion, golden as the unknown future of their dreams. ❋ George Allan England (1906)
Portland shouted advice, and I did all three for what appeared to be half a day, but was in reality a little over a quarter of an hour, and sullenly our fish came home with spurts of temper, dashes head on and sarabands in the air, but home to the bank came he, and the remorseless reel gathered up the thread of his life inch by inch. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Other painters have spun more intricate, more beautiful scrolls of line; other painters sounded more sensuous colour music, but the subtle sarabands of Botticelli they have not composed. ❋ James Huneker (1890)
California swore and prayed, and Portland shouted advice, and I did all three for what appeared to be half a day, but was in reality a little over a quarter of an hour, and sullenly our fish came home with spurts of temper, dashes head on and sarabands in the air, but home to the bank came he, and the remorseless reel gathered up the thread of his life inch by inch. ❋ Unknown (1889)
In this respect it follows the suggestion of the older "binary form," in which sarabands, gavottes, and the like were written by Bach. ❋ Unknown (1874)
The sarabands illustrate Bach's method in slow movements. ❋ Unknown (1874)
Endless sarabands ran through her head, and, like an Indian dancing-girl on the flowers of a carpet, her thoughts leaped with the notes, swung from dream to dream, from sadness to sadness. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)
Some find Lovecraft's intensity atrocious - not everyone can enjoy a writer capable of comparing a strange light to "a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed marsh." ❋ David Pescovitz (2011)
At times, when grave thoughts occupy the mind and grieve the brain, comes the jade whispering her merry tales in the author's ear, tickling her lips with her feathers, dancing sarabands, and making the house echo with her laughter. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
There are six sections listed as (you guessed it) "suites," and the chapters are structured like a musical piece, including preludes, sarabands and gigues. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Likewise machines descend from above, double and treble, with Dives rising out of Hell, and Lazarus seen in Abraham's bosom; besides several figures, dancing jigs, sarabands, and country dances to the admiration of the spectators, with the merry conceits of Squire Punch and Sir John Spendall. " ❋ Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1873)
Hey [looks] [it’s] [saraband] ❋ Cheesecurd35 (2022)
