untune

Well, as it turns out, the Ciccone Youth track is by no means the only all-silent untune for sale at the iTMS; faithful viewers ben, Scott Levin, and Michael Wyszomierski contributed their own suggestions, too.

Boing Boing: February 1, 2004 - February 7, 2004 Archives 2004

Nothing but Violence, Invasion or Rebellion can obstruct the River or untune the

John Adams diary 11, 18 - 29 December 1765 1961

No sight could touch or daunt me, no sound my soul untune;

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 Various

William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) 1162Take but degree away, untune that string,

Quotations 1919

QUOTATION: Take but degree away, untune that string,

Quotations 1919

But this is nothing to what follows; for, being oblig’d to make his sense intelligible, we are forc’d to untune our own verses, that we may give his meaning to the reader.

Dedication Vergil 1909

To my ear the untune is agony; to my music, a discord in my day is death to what would have been written that day.

A Woman's Will Anne Warner 1891

He did not, as has been said of Horace, wilfully untune his harp when he commenced satirist.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

I cannot think that there is anything to be particularly gained by having the sky untuned; still, if it has got to be untuned at all, I am sure music is the only thing that can untune it.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

Their natural tendency, from the very base of British society, and through all its strongly built gradations, is to look upward: they are not apt to "untune degree."

Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Leslie Stephen 1868