rebecks

Troubadours; for they held in their hands rebecks, rotes, small portable harps, and other indications of their profession Such appeared to be stationary, as if engaged in observing and recording their remarks on the meditations of their Prince.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

What hautboys and Zamora bagpipes we shall hear, what tabors, timbrels, and rebecks!

Don Quixote 2002

There were harps, and fiddles, and gitterns, and psalteries, and lutes and rebecks, and many more that he could not name.

Tales From Scottish Ballads Elizabeth Wilson Grierson 1908

He could join the crew of Mirth, and look pleasantly on at a village fair, 'where the jolly rebecks sound to many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequered shade'.

Quotation, &c. 1908

In the first were the clarion-players; in the second the singers, singing motets and ballads; and in the third various musical instruments -- harps, guitars, rebecks, etc.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

Here we find again the orchard closes, the pleached pleasances, and all those queer picture paradises, peopled with tall lilied maidens, angels with peacock wings and thin gold hoops above their heads, and court minstrels thrumming lutes, rebecks, and mandolins --

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

A joyous sound of shawms and silver rebecks interrupted his discourse.

Sintram and His Companions Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

What hautboys and Zamora bagpipes we shall hear, what tabors, timbrels, and rebecks!

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

What hautboys and Zamora bagpipes we shall hear, what tabors, timbrels, and rebecks!

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

My ears, tuned as they now are only to sounds of affliction, are not so weary of the eternal tinkling of harps, and squeaking of rebecks, and snapping of castanets — my eyes are not so tired of the beggarly affectation of court ceremonial, which is only respectable when it implies wealth and expresses power — as my very soul is sick of the paltry ambition which can find pleasure in spangles, tassels, and trumpery, when the reality of all that is great and noble bath passed away.

Anne of Geierstein 2008