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The 20 tracks range from wedding and bar mitzvah music by klezmer clarinet masters Dave Tarras and Sam Musiker , to the famed cantor Moishe Oysher ("Balkan Rhapsody"), to classic Second Avenue schtick like Semitic parodies of cowboy songs ("Shalom Pardner" and "When It's Passover Time on the Prairie").
Schvitzing the Night Away Will Friedwald 2011
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Houses, for Tarras-Walks; and the Roofs for stupendous Rocks and Mountains.
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Many nights (in this manner) enjoyed they their meetings, entermixing their amorous conference with infinite kisses and kinde embraces, as the window gave leave, he sitting in the Tarras, and departing alwayes before breake of day, for feare of being discovered by any.
The Decameron 2004
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When shee heard her answer in such comfortable maner, she mounted up the Ladder, which the peazant had made very firme and strong, holding it fast for her safer ascending; by which meanes she went up on the Tarras.
The Decameron 2004
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So soone as she heard the tongue of Ancilla, she replyed (so well as she could) saying: Ah my sweet Woman, I am heere aloft uppon the Tarras; weepe not, neyther make any noyse, but quickely bring me some of my
The Decameron 2004
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Continuing long in this extreame affliction, and surveighing all likely meanes about her, whereby she might descend from the Tarras, whereof she was wholly disappointed: she began to sighe and weepe exceedingly, and in this heavy perplexity of spirit, thus shee complained to her selfe.
The Decameron 2004
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And the Sunne being risen, shee went to every corner of the Tarras, to espye any
The Decameron 2004
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Which courtesie he did not deny her, and she lying groveling upon her brest on the Tarras, to hide her body that no part thereof might be seene, but her head; weeping, she spake thus to him.
The Decameron 2004
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And, because day-light should not discover her on the Tarrasse, she went to make her descent downe againe: but finding the Ladder to be taken away, and thinking how her publike shame was now inevitable, her heart dismayed, and shee fell downe in a swoune on the Tarras: yet recovering her senses afterward, her greefe and sorrow ex. ceeded all capacity of utterance.
The Decameron 2004
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Which words being ended, she withdrew her selfe towards the middest of the Tarras, despairing of escaping (with life) from the heates violence; and not once onely, but infinite times beside (among her other grievous extreamities) she was ready to dye with drought, bemoaning incessantly her dolorous condition.
The Decameron 2004
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