Some confine their care to sound a deep booming bass in a .long-continued drone, somewhat suggestive (to my appreciative Highland ear) of our own bagpipes. Here and there high falsetto notes strike in, varied from verse to verse, and then the choruses... A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war - Page 189by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1882 - 389 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1882 - 632 pages
...harmonious chorus. It seems as if one section devoted themselves to pouring forth a rippling torrent of ra, ra, ra-ra-ra ! while others burst into a flood of...from verse to verse, and then the choruses of la and ra come bubbling in liquid melody ; while the voices of the principal singers now join in unison, now... | |
| Charles Godfrey Leland - Gypsies - 1882 - 602 pages
...' Ra, ra, ra — ra — ra !' while others burst into a flood of ' La, la — la — la — la ! ' Some confine their care to sound a deep, booming bass...from verse to verse, and then the choruses of La and Ra come bubbling in liquid melody, while the voices of the principal singers now join in unison, now... | |
| 1882 - 780 pages
...burst into a flood of La !— La ! la-la-la-la ! Some confine their care to sounding a deep bcoming bass in a long-continued drone, somewhat suggestive,...strike in, varied from verse to verse, and then the ohorns of La and Ra comes babbling in liquid melody, while the voices of the principal singers now... | |
| American literature - 1882 - 884 pages
...— La ! la-la-la-la ! Some confine their care to sounding a deep booming bass in a long continued drone, somewhat suggestive, to my appreciative Highland...strike in, varied from verse to verse, and then the chorus of La and Ra comes bubbling in liquid melody, while the voices of the principal singers now... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1882 - 920 pages
...— La ! la-la-la-la ! Some confine their care to sounding a deep booming bass in a long continued drone, somewhat suggestive, to my appreciative Highland...there high falsetto notes strike in, varied from verse lo verse, and then the chorus of La and Ra comes bubbling in liquid melody, while the voices of the... | |
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