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Thus the word Hautboys represented very nearly the climax of power to 17th century ears.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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So the old steps have all been cleared away, and brick walls line the straight deep sides, whereon grow the finest peaches and nectarines in the county, whilst a parterre of British Queens and Hautboys cover the spot where Vera died with their rich red fruit and their luxuriant foliage.
Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron
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At length, nothing remains but to blow the Hautboys; and just as the chorus arrives at its fulness, they come maundering in.
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart
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Hautboys go out, gradually; for the waggoner is far on his road to market; sheep cease to bleat and cattle to low, one by one; they are on their grazing ground, and the business of the day is begun.
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart
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Hautboys supply the supposed ominous 'music in the air.'
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Hautboys in four parts were the backbone of the French regimental bands in Lully's time -- _i. e._, about 1670.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Hautboys and trumpets sounded shrilly the onset, and the first pair of knights, laying their lances in rest, rushed to the encounter.
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We waited on him in a Body, being ten of us, with two Trumpets and Hautboys, which he desired might play us to
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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This being New-Year's Day, every officer was wished a Merry New Year by our Trumpets and Hautboys; and we had a large tub of Punch, hot, upon the Quarter-deck, where every man in the Ship had above a Pint to his share, and drank to our Owners 'and
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Hautboys played "Hey Boys, up go we!" and all manner of paltry noisy tunes; and, after service, the Musicians, who were by this time more than half-drunk, marched at the head of the Company: next to them an old
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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