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[2] 'All's Well: the favourite duett, sung by Mr. Incledon and Mr. Braham, in the comic opera of the English Fleet'.
Letter 289 2009
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` ` For other variety there was a brilliant show duett on themes from La Somnambula for piano and violin by Messrs. Benedict and Noll, and a solo on the pianoforte by that most promising young artist, Hoffman.
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I remember favoring air appreciative audience with a solo on a trunk key, followed by mademoiselle and the captain in a duett on
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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Some young ladies have come to the Hospital to sing for the entertainment of the wounded inmates and while I am writing are performing in the hall, there is no base and it dose not interest me much althoug they are very good singers, Common tunes do not sound very well without the base it is different with a duett.
Franklin County: Lauramann Howe Russell to Serena E. Russell, [illegible] 2, 1862 Lauramann Howe Russell 1862
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You may tell Mr. Hullah, if you like, that in spite of his contempt for my music, I was very much pleased, with a duett of his I chanced to see -- 'O that we two were maying' -- and which I bought and have forced two ladies here to take pains to learn.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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On a certain day, sir, I happened to be walking in the yard -- taking my lonely round -- for in the words of a friend of my own family, the author of All's Well arranged as a duett:
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841
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Included on this release is also the Firefox AK-duett "Kick Me Into Action".
Side-Line news feed 2009
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Stiff Lord love yon, Captain Ironsides, 'twas • barrel of btef to a biscuit, the wind had not shifted so duett contrary as it did; who could have thought in iron.
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On a certain day, sir, I happened to be walking in the yard — taking my lonely round — for in the words of a friend of my own family, the author of All’s Well arranged as a duett:
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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Mr. KELLEY and Mr. SCHENCK raved a neat but not new duett, "Give us
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