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Music of wind-instruments is heard far away behind the new house.
The Master Builder 2008
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Music of wind-instruments is heard far away behind the new house.
The Master Builder 2008
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It made the same prodigious display of bright brazen wind-instruments, horribly twisted, worth, as I should conceive, some thousands of pounds, and which it is utterly impossible that anybody in any season can ever play or want to play.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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In the pitchy darkness, this awful figure throwing his eyes about, the gas in the boxes shuddering out of sight, and the wind-instruments bugling the most horrible wails, the boldest spectator must have felt frightened.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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A good conductor, interpreting the thought of the composer, does twenty things at once: reads the score, waves his baton, watches the singer, makes a motion sideways, first to the drum then to the wind-instruments, and so on.
The Wife 2004
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Rosseter, who, with their wonderful wind-instruments and puffed - out cheeks, were themselves a delightful show to the small boys and girls.
Adam Bede 2004
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From an early moment, the strains of flageolets and pipes, of song and of wind-instruments faintly fell on his ear.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Some, for instance, draw all their characters with wind-instruments. —
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Some, for instance, draw all their characters with wind-instruments. —
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From an early moment, the strains of flageolets and pipes, of song and of wind-instruments faintly fell on his ear.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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