On Sunday mornings, when Mary came out of her little room, in clean white dress, with her singing-book and psalm-book in her hands, her deep eyes solemn from recent prayer, he thought of that fair and mystical bride, the Lamb's wife, whose union with her ❋ Various (N/A)
A class was formed in Lowell, Massachusetts, and a "singing-book" was used there with the notes written with numerals on the staff instead of the usual characters. ❋ Various (N/A)
"The most eloquent discourse I ever heard!" added a young man with a singing-book under his arm. ❋ Various (N/A)
A third singing-book followed, and finally a fourth entitled the _Psalm Singer's Amusement_, both of which were popular in their day. ❋ Theron Brown (1873)
Breathless with surprise, Mr. Parlin and his guests watched the child as he pattered with bare feet across the floor to the west side of the room, climbed upon a high stool, and opening the "vial cupboard," took out from a chink in the wall, behind the bottles, a little old singing-book. ❋ Sophie May (1869)
When the "man from the west'ard" paid it to Mr. Parlin, Caleb saw Mr. Parlin spread it between the leaves of a little singing-book and lay it in the drawer. ❋ Sophie May (1869)
They all thought Willy must have had a dream about Caleb and the ox-money, or he would never have gone and taken the singing-book out of the drawer; but from that day to this he has never been able to remember the dream. ❋ Sophie May (1869)
Then he seemed to be considering for a space what to do; but at last put the singing-book back again in the chink behind the bottles, clambered down from the stool, and taking his favorite seat in the red chair, began to warm his little cold feet before the fire. ❋ Sophie May (1869)
Mr. Parlin went at once to the cupboard, and took down the singing-book. ❋ Sophie May (1869)
At the second table she split her johnny-cake, and spread it open, saying it was a singing-book, and began to sing out of it, -- ❋ Sophie May (1869)
There were certain mysterious preliminaries, -- the rustling of singing-book leaves, the sliding of the short screen-curtains before the singers along by their clinking rings, and now and then a premonitory groan or squeak from bass-viol or violin, as if the instruments were clearing their throats; and finally the sudden uprising of that long row of heads in the "singing-seats." ❋ Lucy Larcom (1858)
It is not the _crotchets_ which you find in the singing-book, that I intend to talk about; I leave them to those who know more about them than I do. ❋ Unknown (1835)
On the desk, beneath the looking-glass, lay the Bible, which I had begun to read aloud at the book of Genesis, and the singing-book that Susan used for her evening psalm. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
On the desk, beneath the looking-glass, lay the Bible, which I had begun to read aloud at the Book of Genesis, and the singing-book that Susan used for her evening psalm. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
a catechism, or a singing-book at some hapless child twelve thousand times, and caused seven hundred to kneel on peas as a punishment. ❋ Martha Foote Crow (1889)
It was spread in an old singing-book; and the singing-book is gone too. " ❋ Sophie May (1869)
