Violin Bow

But one of the pleasantest of our personal remembrances, connected with diamonds, is the picking up of a fine, lustrous gem which fell from O. B.'s violin-bow, (the gift of the Duke of Devonshire,) one night, after he had been playing his magic instrument for the special delight of a few friends. ❋ Unknown (1969)

It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)

Stepping into the middle of the room, he took the violin-bow out of his sword-belt, and, holding it over his head with both hands, broke it into a thousand pieces. ❋ Various (N/A)

The violin-bow was between his teeth, and his hat hung over one eye in the fashion of early dawn. ❋ Various (N/A)

Street, Snargate Street; the round fur cap -- black fur for the side, white ermine for the top -- of a portly Karaite priest on his back, whose robes had been blown to his spread knees, as if lifted and neatly folded there; a violin-bow gripped between the thick, irregular teeth of a little Spaniard with brushed-back hair and mad-looking eyes; odd shoes on the foot of a French girl, one black, one brown. ❋ Unknown (1906)

It was not utterly silent, nor was the quay-square, but haunted by a pretty dense cloud of mosquitoes, and dreamy twinges of music, like the drawing of the violin-bow in elf-land. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Sir Edward has been brought up to think more of a cricket-bat than of a violin-bow; but if he wishes at any time to buy a ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)

With a slight, respectful motion of the head and violin-bow towards the orchestra, the respect of Olympian power, he draws from them the first notes of the symphony; then, leaning his head upon his instrument caressingly, as if he gratefully heard at once what he is about to unfold to the audience, he draws his bow. ❋ George William Curtis (1858)

When a violin-bow is drawn across this tuning-fork, the room is immediately filled with a musical sound, which may be regarded as the ❋ John Tyndall (1856)