How To Use Alto In A Sentence

Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
“And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
When you eat or drink a food source of maltose, the maltose is split into two glucose units so they can be absorbed.
She said: ‘We have a rail station at Malton that fails abominably.’
There is no flavour to the pepperoni and it is altogether too tomatoey. The Sun

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He'd probably dismissed her altogether by now as fickle, shallow and all too easily swayed by other people.
In the postwar period they gradually merged with the Conservatives until they disappeared altogether. Times, Sunday Times
Pondus limi, inde aworden is flæsc pund fyres of thon read is blod and hat factus est caro; pondus ignis, inde rubeus est sanguis et calidus; pund saltes of thon sindon salto tehero pund deawes of thon pondus salis, inde sunt salsae lacrimae; pondus roris, unde aworden is swat pund blostmes of thon is fagung egena factus est sudor; pondus floris, inde est uarietas oculorum; pund wolcnes of thon is unstydfullnisse _vel_ unstatholfæstnisse pondus nubis, inde est instabilitas thohta mentium; pund windes of thon is oroth cald pund gefe of thon is pondus uenti, inde est anhela frigida: pondus gratiae, id est thoht monnes sensus hominis. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
Thousands of people flocked to the Malton Racing Stables Open Day, when 18 stables around Malton and Norton opened their doors to a fascinated public.
Said boy was taken up by Thomas Walton, and says _he was free_, and that his parents live near Shawneetown, Illinois, and that he was _taken_ from that place in July 1836; says his father's name is William, and his mother's Sally Brown, and that they moved from Fredericksburg, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
While we are at it we should skip most of the stuff comingout of Turtle Bay — actually maybe we ought to just skip Turtle Bay altogether. The Volokh Conspiracy » United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child:
The light within the eave was a dusky twilight at the entrance, which failed altogether in the inner recesses. The Antiquary
Altogether, the village is idyllic. Daniel Deronda
The study found that, compared with visitors from the south of England, northerners were twice as likely to have phoned in sick so that they could spend the day at Alton Towers.
There are several general measures that can be taken to reduce or eliminate the problem altogether.
Execution under the extraordinary procedure was not altogether different.
But this is something different altogether. The Sun
Altogether the fruit is worth 70 cents. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
The society is currently looking for tenors basses, altos and sopranos to join the adult choir.
There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
That penchant for dressing bald rats in sequins and leather is a different story altogether.
Then, things became altogether fishier. Times, Sunday Times
For Christ in the Sacrament is not altogether unlike Christ in the cratch. Archive 2007-02-01
The only cure, however, is to remove lead from the water system altogether, by replacing old pipes and tanks.
The first examples of the Western Region's main line diesel-hydraulics had appeared the previous year and Cornwall was planned to be one of the first areas of BR to banish steam altogether.
Police were today searching for a thief who snatched hundreds of pounds from a busy shop in Walton.
Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
Z lays the chessmen to sleep in one of his four big tin boxes, now empty of their original Altoids. Camo Girl
Not far away, and altogether more appealing, is the abandoned Portuguese city of Old Goa, now a dramatic collection of cathedrals and basilicas.
The trick now is to remove the human element altogether and let artificial intelligence take care of the rest.
The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
The refutation of this new form of Adoptionism, as it rests altogether on the interpretation of the hypostatical union, will be found in the treatment of that word. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Yet, more serious is the blunder in his statement "the Finzi-Continis moved out of society altogether and began to cultivate what B's father sees as absurd pretensions to nobility (the name Finzi-Contini in Italian actually suggests 'fake little counts'). Bassani's Father
At this point the path seemed to disappear altogether .
I think -" "I've a pretty little mare, pure Arab - bought her for breeding, but she's proving deuced picky, altogether unamenable. ON A WILD NIGHT
The second row of split folding seats tuck behind the front row or can be removed altogether when you need to carry bulky loads. The Sun
A bomb exploded at the American Center in Katmandu last week which lead to the consolidation of all volunteers, evacuation and now suspension of the program altogether. Wanderlustress:
The primary species of bound UCB in our models were: undissociated diacid for phosphatidylcholine, dianion for dodecyl maltoside micelles and cyclodextrins, and both monoanions and dianion for sodium taurocholate. BioMed Central - Latest articles
For example, the period 1945-51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve.
I think you have done well in avoiding the topic altogether; but between ourselves, do you really think that the refinement of manner, the censorious, hypocritical, verbal scrupulosity, which is carried so far in this "picked age" of ours, is a true sign of superior refinement of taste, and purity of morals? Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
If you enjoy an occasional drink this may do no harm but by cutting out drink altogether you avoid any possible risks.
We lived in the government housing project, and the whole first year we were home we made less than $300 altogether.
These were beautiful altocumulus castellanus, and their puffy towers gave warning of a turbulent atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
I was playing in the championship, but I felt we were in different tournaments altogether.
Kindness is an underrated virtue altogether in my humble opinion.
It is a conceit altogether void of reason, but it is so wilful and pertinacious, that it is almost utterly inconvincible, and so it puts souls in the most desperate forlorn estate that can be imagined. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
But up on the fifth floor there is an altogether different scene, with desirable clothes from groovy young Manhattan designers. Times, Sunday Times
It was not an altogether convincing Braintree display against a below average looking Yeading side.
The history of this proposition is not altogether clear.
Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
But the lives of our saints, independently altogether of the momentous change in human affairs and prospects which they ushered in, have a substantial hold on history, of which neither the classical nor the northern hierology can boast. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
The four proteins that bound and eluted to the greatest extent were expressed in Escherichia coli as C-terminal fusion proteins of maltose binding protein (MBP), as the solubilities of the free proteins were too low to permit full characterization. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Bruttia Sicanium circumspicit ora Pelorum? quid primum mediumue canam, quo fine quiescam? auratasne trabis an Mauros undique postis35 an picturata lucentia marmora uena mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia nymphas? huc oculis, huc mente trahor. uenerabile dicam lucorum senium? te, quae uada fluminis infra cernis, an ad siluas quae respicis, aula, tacentis, 40 qua tibi tuta quies offensaque turbine nullo nox silet et pigros inuitant murmura somnos? an quae graminea suscepta crepidine fumant balnea et impositum riuis algentibus ignem? quaque uaporiferis iunctus fornacibus amnis45 ridet anhelantis uicino flumine nymphas? uidi artis ueterumque manus uariisque metalla uiua modis. labor est auri memorare figuras aut ebur aut dignas digitis contingere gemmas; quicquid et argento primum uel in aere minori50 lusit et enormis manus est experta colossos. dum uagor aspectu uisusque per omnia duco, calcabam necopinus opes. nam splendor ab alto defluus et nitidum referentes aera testae monstrauere solum; uarias ubi picta per artis55 gaudet humus superatque nouis asarota figuris: expauere gradus. A Villa at Tibur
Russell's findings are not altogether surprising.
Nor much longer till it ceased to be a griskin -- having altogether disappeared from his fingers, followed by a gurgling sound, as half the contents of the canteen went washing it down his throat. The Lone Ranche
These braces are costly but well worth the outlay if the alternative is to stop skiing altogether.
* * * Mae took the bacteriophage to her old lab in Palo Alto. PREY
She says that rather than counting calories, those wanting to lose weight should focus on eating healthy foods and cutting out processed products altogether. Times, Sunday Times
Bartz's father ran a local jazz club, and Gary got an alto sax at eleven years of age.
14 Alan Dean Foster Altogether, the rooms constituted a benign and thoroughly salamandrine environment. The Moment Of The Magician
The conservative coalition could delay further reforms or block them altogether.
His objective was to kill the space station project altogether.
He seems to have bloody well disappeared altogether.
Jessie's wails died down to a whimper and then stopped altogether.
Frearis, and of his other flatteraris, wold altogither have devored, yf The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
It is sometimes impossible to avoid conflict altogether.
In the original the opening strophe, which is altogether more regular than the average and is, moreover, one of the few that have also complete caesural rhyme, is as follows: The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original
At first, I figured he was just getting acclimatized, didn't need ol ' Altoona anymore. A RODENT OF DOUBT
Staying off the mountain altogether is cheaper still - and perfectly doable. The Sun
Tremain's novel is altogether jauntier, more various and energetic than these quotations imply.
The only complaint being heard around the Malton rehearsal rooms is that more chorus backup would have been useful.
The singing part of the audition went well, she said I had a beautiful voice and made me a second soprano, which is strange because Ive been an alto my whole life, but whatever. Skipperjbk8: hey pook...I found a Pierre!!
Of course, the pain associated with birthing was considered entirely natural, while the protraction of pain and suffering associated with foot-binding was altogether an intentional act of the human will.
But cobblers and laundry owners could be in trouble, and tobacco products should be avoided altogether.
Some of the characters, such as spoilt Premiership stars, shifty agents and publicity-mad bimbos, are instantly identifiable with true-life equivalents and not altogether far-fetched.
Altogether, over 900 million people—well over twice as many as speak English as a first language—use an Indic language as a native tongue. The English Is Coming!
In his aspect there was a certain dryness, and, altogether, his vivacity, his ceaselessness, and a kind of equability of tone in his voice, reminded me of what Homer says concerning the old men around Priam, above the gate of Troy, how they "chirped like cicalas on a summer day. Adventures Among Books
Reece & Nichols Angela Mueller no relation to the owner, an agent with Reece & Nichols Realtors, says the 5,874-square-foot house is priced well considering the location, the finishes and touches like the porte-cochere. A Touch of Tuscany in Kansas
Paul had roached hair, and a thin nose and yet thinner mouth, but he was a big guy with giant hands that lent him an authority his mind did not altogether deserve.
He was watchful, weary, worried, and altogether untrusting of anything she and her companions said or did.
Or they abandoned ship altogether and slogged to shore, hoping to regain their vessels when the ice thawed.
(T) he policy shift by Wells Fargo follows others over the last two years, including moves by Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank, to increase scrutiny of lending to companies involved in mountaintop removal -- or to end the lending altogether. William S. Becker: Climate Action: Part 2 - Down to Business
Ridley's goal is to demolish this view and explain why Galton's nature / nurture dichotomy is erroneous.
It appears the naughty boys were in the altogether just as a primary school field trip walked past.
Walton, imagining that his discomposure was the consequence of guilty fear, called upon him to remember the duties which he owed to England, the benefits which he had received from himself, and the probable consequence of taking part in a pert boy's insolent defiance of the power of the governor of the province. Waverley Novels — Volume 12
The chapter on the quantum brain, for example, overinterprets the concept of decoherence, misapplies the word "acausal" and misses out entanglement altogether. Physicsworld.com: all content
The streets were empty of ‘decent folk’ and were rapidly filling with a different sort altogether.
Speaking to the Evening Press, the woman, who comes from the Malton area, said the attack had left her feeling physically sick with worry as she has to walk the same route every day.
It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock. The Guests Of Hercules
Neither was his accent now altogether that of Lancashire, for Lee, as is not uncommon, would sometimes speak a purer English than the local vernacular. Lorimer of the Northwest
But that, the reader may say, is a different matter altogether.
The absence of reference to a division of the southern province, therefore, is not altogether surprising.
Pathfinder_ and T.oreau; the scent of the soil, once again, in rain and in shine, is it not conveyed to us with an astonishing distinctness, that is the product of a literary endowment of the rarest order, by such writers as Izaak Walton and Robert Burns, and among recent writers in varying degrees by Richard Jefferies and by Barnes, by T. E. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825
This has been an ongoing discussion for quite some time, with the reddest of the right-leaning anti-public broadcasting crowd fixing to "defund" and altogether eliminate some of the stalwarts of American news such as NPR and PBS. Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre'
So erase those, and keep your eye out for another label altogether, one that we can put just a touch more trust into. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Similarly, Tom on trumpet & flugelhorn, and Carlos on alto sax, are used for coloration far more often that they are given the spotlight.
A ryot cultivating alluvial lands, and having no seed, can hardly ever repay his advances; but it does not follow that he has been a loser, for he, perhaps, could not value his time, labor, and rent altogether at half the amount; and as long as this system is kept within moderate bounds, it answers much better than private cultivation to the manufacturer, and has many contingent advantages to the cultivator. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultravires rule in company law altogether.
In Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, diamond-nabber Bill Mason notes notes a strange security trend: people will spend big bucks to have a whole host ultra-sophisticated locks on their front doors -- but they'll put something flimsy on the back door, or leave the windows unlocked altogether. Defense Tech: Lock the back door, too
'Not altogether,' said the old man; 'besides being a viper-hunter, I am what they call a herbalist, one who knows the virtue of particular herbs; I gather them at the proper season, to make medicines with for the sick.' Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
The Trent Tile Company made a specialty of dull-finished or ‘Trent finished’ tiles in alto-relievo, which are treated by the sand-blast process after being glazed.
It was an altogether different situation.
In Malton and Norton, defences will be a mix of reinforced concrete retaining walls, earth embankments and steel sheet piling to run parallel with the river.
But fearing to be further disclosed, yet threatning him with another Processe in law, for abusing the words of the Gospel, he was content to dismisse him for altogither, without any more golden greasing in the hand. The Decameron
The results was that he was unable to see anything on the platform, except just nine sopranos and nine contraltos at each corner.
Over this system lie beds which have yielded in succession Ordovician and Silurian fossils, forming altogether a compact division which has been distinguished locally as the _Muth system_. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
The slightest additional gust of wind often oversets the little sailor and his vessel altogether. Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match
Gareth and his daughters began singing, Tru's soprano with Relm's alto and his bass creating a perfect trio.
The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose. A Legend of Montrose
Honestly, it is well worth bunking off work altogether on these occasions, since the pleasure of watching the artless production economies more than repays the rows I get for missed deadlines.
His triple salto in the floor exercises alone is a world record in gymnastics.
Altogether, they put thirty-two "five-point-nine" (150 mm.) shells into that one old building and all the damage they did was to ruin our dinner by filling the "dixie" with mud. The Emma Gees
If you find it difficult to stop drinking altogether, try to cut down as much as possible.
The irresistibly danceable blues-zydeco fusion music pioneered by the late accordionist Alton Rubin Sr. (aka Rockin 'Dopsie) continues to evolve in the nimble fingers of a second generation. In New Orleans, jazz fans get their groove on despite rain
Malton, Norton and Old Malton - some of the towns worst hit by flooding - will receive £6.3m for a programme involving building embankments and walls along the River Derwent.
The Palo Alto startup is quietly developing an online service that will help businesses and consumers choose and manage health plans.
Men in Trees has gotten appreciably better since its slightly rocky start, and chief among the notable improvements is Anne Heche's performance as Marin, which has become warmer, softer and altogether more appealing. Critic's Corner Wednesday
The scenic front is not pictorially decorated but is composed of a metal coating and a bronze alto-relievo sculpture located in a black recess.
Brahms wrote three piano rhapsodies as well as the Alto Rhapsody for contralto, male chorus, and orchestra.
So strong was the event that the speedy star eventually will be lost altogether, traveling alone in the blackness of intergalactic space.
Walton provides a chart with all the instances p.48, and suggests that the evidence points to the term denoting unproductiveness rather than lack of material form. Review of The Lost World of Genesis One, Part Four
There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. A Woman of Thirty
It is advisable to have carbohydrates such as maltodextrin or tapioca dextrin rather than refined sugars such as sucrose, corn syrup, or high fructose corn syrup. Undefined
It is a tradition where instrumentalists apart from organists are apt to seem like a different breed of musician altogether.
On one hand, aesthetic Physic falls back into the equivoke of the theory of artistic and literary classes, by attempting to determine aesthetically the abstractions of our intellect; on the other, fails to recognize, as we said, the true formation of so-called natural beauty; for which the question as to whether some given individual animal, flower, or man be beautiful or ugly, is altogether excluded. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists. Ancient Egypt
Berlin modernism, meanwhile, was an altogether different and surely stranger brew.
The powers that be, in this case the independent Television Association, banned the advertisement altogether.
Objedoque dabat clipeo certamina; et illinc Hedor erat, Trojae fvunmum decus: acer uterqoCi Fuhninibus ccelo veluti fragor editus alto; P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield
It has none of the arid woodiness of the former and, altough it retains the overall dry quality of the blend, is a touch sweeter and "creamier"-smelling. Weekend Beauty - Bath & Body: Jo Malone Sweet Lime & Cedar Body Cream and Shower Gel
Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth. The History of Pendennis
What percentage probability should it give to the chance that the currency might collapse altogether? Times, Sunday Times
One of Britain's top trainers, Tim Easterby, who has 120 horses at Great Habton, Malton, uses the pure muck as a fertiliser on his own fields.
Berlin modernism, meanwhile, was an altogether different and surely stranger brew.
The original merchant bankers were traders in a different sense altogether. Times, Sunday Times
The engine coughed and spluttered, then stopped altogether.
The New River, a formerly dry barranca now pouring Colorado River water into the Salton Sea, soon became unfordable by conventional means. Colossus
The warm, sunny weather broke on our last day, but the persistent drizzle didn't deter us from visiting the wilds of Dalton-in-Furness, where we came face to face with beasties of all description.
Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.
The book is altogether lacking in originality.
For Prints, Conner arranged a set of his fingerprints produced at the Palo Alto Police Department along with a strongbox containing file folders.
Required to spend more time with Matilda, Agnes finds that her encounters with the curate dwindle and almost cease altogether.
W. H., and Son, Ltd, a firm of stationers, newsagents, and booksellers, originated in a small newsvendor's shop opened in London in Little Grosvenor Street in 1792 by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna.
She makes a striking entrance in riding boots, looking every inch the aristocrat, but her emotional range is altogether too slender for this beefy role.
It was altogether uncared for and untasted. Times, Sunday Times
His alto saxophone exerted a powerful influence on early free jazz in Britain, if not across Europe.
For a real contrast, the bevel can even be done in a different material altogether, such as wood strips or even thin strips of brass.
The original merchant bankers were traders in a different sense altogether. Times, Sunday Times
As I start to wonder about the legitimacy of the test, Alain becomes altogether more aggressive, demanding what I plan to do about the advanced state of misery and moral turpitude in which I have found myself.
And it will vanish altogether in less than three decades. The Sun
EL ALTO, Bolivia — Tattered dummies look down on this city from street poles in barren squares, like scarecrows for anyone with bad intentions. The Wind From The South
The choice of language is altogether different.
Our job is to ensure that Malton and Norton are vibrant and full of vitality.
That is another matter altogether. And we shall come to that next.
The New York University sociologist Dalton Conley has written of a “network nation,” in which applications like Facebook and MySpace create “crosscutting social groups” and new, flexible identities that only vaguely overlap with racial identities. The End of White America?
You can cut your repayment when money is tight, or take a payment holiday altogether.
It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultravires rule in company law altogether.
But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone, a defendant might escape punishment altogether.
Though a railway has been pushed up-country from Jesselton for something over a hundred miles, both road and rolling-stock leave much to be desired, the little tin-pot locomotives not infrequently leaving the rails altogether and landing in the river. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
Altogether, the case could continue for a additional two years before a final decision is reached.
With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Baby boomers decide to "downshift" -- fewer CDs. more time -- have figured this out: Owen Byrd and Maria Lines of Palo Alto, Calif., a public-interest lawyer and an engineer, decided to cut their $100,000 income by $20,000 this year to get an extra day at home. Are You Anxious? You're Not Alone
'Tis not improbable also, but that our _taste_ may be very much improv'd either by _preparing_ our taste for the Body, as, after eating _bitter_ things, _Wine_, or other _Vinous liquors_, are more sensibly tasted; or else by _preparing_ Bodies for our tast; as the dissolving of Metals with acid Liquors, make them tastable, which were before altogether insipid; thus _Lead_ becomes _sweeter_ then Sugar, and _Silver_ more _bitter_ then Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
It seems altogether extraordinary.
Palestine -- one sort is particularized as _white_ with a dark blue spot and streak -- the water lily, lotos, which I think I meant, is _blue_ altogether. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
When Billy Dalton, military special ops and star surfer, is disqualified from the pro-surfing tour, he takes off for the coast of Bali looking for the perfect wave. Point Break Gets a Sequel with Jan de Bont! « FirstShowing.net
Galton devised a method of creating composite pictures in which the features of different faces were superimposed over one another.
These voices are divided into four categories; haute-contre (high tenor/male alto), taille (low tenor/lyric baritone) and basse (bass) for masculine voices, and dessus (treble) for high voices. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
On 27th June 1665 he left London to escape the Great Plague and settled at Hersham, having been appointed churchwarden at the parish church of Walton-upon-Thames.
Last night it emerged the former nurse may be planning to quit politics altogether. The Sun
Mr Alton said that the poll tax meant many people had dodged electoral registers in a bid to avoid payment.
Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers. The Captive
She didn't mind seeing him in a group but an intimate dinner in a restaurant was another matter altogether.
The name is derived from Praltos Camp, which forms the hinterland of the coastal section.
She had smiled at it as such when Dorcas used to hint at it; but are there no castles in the clouds which we like to inhabit, although we know them altogether air-built, and whose evaporation desolates us? Wylder's Hand
Hutchinson: Yes sir. oh , and Lord Walton, the Grierson Gallery called again.
The other four perish or are murdered on the way, so that the thirty thousand annually exported, as stated by Sir Bartle Frere, represents a loss of 150,000 human beings _annually_ from the east coast alone, altogether irrespective of the enormous and constant flow of slaves to the north by way of the White Nile and Egypt. Black Ivory
Francis Galton, a strong believer in the hereditarian position, founded the discipline of eugenics, which sought to improve the quality of human heredity by manipulating human reproduction.
They claim that Judaism was the growth of the post-exilic period, but we reformers interpret the term Judaism altogether differently. The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
I worry that reality television will be the ultimate downfall of society altogether.
Hounded by petty bureaucrats out of his cramped offices on Calton Hill, art world legend Demarco has again landed on his feet.
This (p. xxiii) portrait presents an _alto-rilievo_ which is well adapted for medals only; it is conceived in the spirit of the French school, which has always attached great importance to the truthful rendering of flesh. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
At his Ma Restaurant in Berlin's famed Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Mr. Raue has banished starch altogether -- no brot (bread), no nudeln (noodles), no kartoffeln (German potato wedges). What's Next: Haute Cuisine
Gang leader Calton, 39, of no fixed address, was jailed for 25 years.
Julian's Bower, at Alkborough, Lincolnshire, is altogether more elaborate, having twelve concentric circles.
His exquisite phrasing is heard frequently on 16-or 32-bar alto sax solos, and occasionally on trumpet and clarinet.
The risk cannot be eliminated altogether.
Where has it come from - the separatism and exclusivism that is altogether too common in parts of the Reformed constituency?
Nonetheless, it seems that the millennia-old roundhouse, within the course of a single century, came to be seen as socially unfitting, and that everyone who could, rebuilt their houses in an altogether new way.
You have two sets of chromosomes, making a total of 46 altogether. Christianity Today
-- In this variety the branches are more ascending and the habit altogether more erect; indeed, among the hornbeams this is a counterpart of the fastigiate varieties of the common oak. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
We also see potential future applications for cobaltosic oxide products in the solar and wind power industries as storage devices in the form of batteries. Lithium Ion Phosphate (LIP) And Cobaltasic Oxide (Co3O4) Manufacturer Sees Multiple Growth Markets: An Interview With China Sun Group High-Tech CEO Fu Guosheng - Yahoo! Finance
Donaldson's lucid chording inspires a sweetly poignant reading of ‘Lonely Woman’, while the opening of ‘Peace’ features a meltingly gorgeous statement on alto, accompanied only by Dave Green's ever thoughtful bass.
Some work of the former kind altogether avoids social considerations, and passes out of our present context.
It may be possible to go further and interpret Lord Browne-Wilkinson's somewhat ambiguous dicta as removing the requirement for a fiduciary relationship altogether.
Down went the sun and down, not diving steeply, but passing northward as it sank, and then suddenly daylight and the expansive warmth of daylight had gone altogether, and the index of the statoscope quivered over to The War in the Air
Partly this is due to the heavy reliance on the second tone plainchant melody, which can be clearly heard in the first polyphonic verse at ‘in Deo salutary meo’ (‘in God my saviour’) and a soprano and alto duet at ‘Esurientes implevit bonis’ (‘He hath filled the hungry with good things’). Archive 2009-06-01
Cars are useful, but their impact on the environment is another matter altogether.
For all I know Ayers has relief sculptures of their likenesses in alto-rilievo style over the portal of his seminar room, and I don’t doubt for a minute that he’s a terrific classroom teacher). April « 2007 « Bill Ayers

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