flautist

• It looked like an apartment belonging to a moderately (okay, let's admit it: more than moderately) prosperous classical flautist-at least, until you got to the CD collection, which was currently still in boxes waiting to be unpacked. —  Beyond World's End
• It wasn't all that odd to see a costumed musician walking the Faire, but a flautist was a rarity, and the morose melodies he chose were definitely out of keeping with the "merrye spirit of Olde England" that everyone else was projecting. —  Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows
• Carmine, my grandfather, came to America and it was really because of his skills as a flautist -- he was a first chair flautist for Toscanini -- that we kind of came out of, I mean really, an almost poverty-like situation. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Here goes to whistle for the Boers, as the sailors do for wind Saying this, he drew out the little mahogany case which held his flute, and coolly took the pieces and fitted them together, before crossing his legs upon the rough seat and beginning to blow, keeping up a series of the most doleful old Scotch and Irish laments, while the oxen plodded on and the police rode by the wagon side, listening and looking in vain for any sign tending to point out the fact that the flautist was a dishonest dealer in the coveted crystals which were so hard to get, but all the same keeping a keen look-out for danger in the shape of advancing Boers CHAPTER TWELVE IN THE THICK OF IT The report of the rifle was magical in its effect upon the Basuto ponies, each rearing up on its hind legs and striking out with its forefeet; but the same punishment was meted out by the riders--namely, a sharp tap between the ears with the barrels of the rifles--and the result was that beyond fidgeting they stood fairly still, while flash, flash, flash_, three more shots were fired. —  A Dash from Diamond City
• Saying this, he drew out the little mahogany case which held his flute, and coolly took the pieces and fitted them together, before crossing his legs upon the rough seat and beginning to blow, keeping up a series of the most doleful old Scotch and Irish laments, while the oxen plodded on and the police rode by the wagon side, listening and looking in vain for any sign tending to point out the fact that the flautist was a dishonest dealer in the coveted crystals which were so hard to get, but all the same keeping a keen look-out for danger in the shape of advancing Boers. —  A Dash from Diamond City

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