How To Use Crotchet In A Sentence

  • Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • Hand-made cotton crotchet over piano (traditional Portuguese crotchet) Archive 2009-02-01
  • He was crotchety and cantankerous, but he was always a familiar face to see on the scene.
  • Furthermore, a comparison of the way in which crotchets and quavers are notated makes it likely that the same scribe copied both works.
  • Your brothers provide quite well for all of us, and I need your smile here. But then, no-one listens to a crotchety old lady in a wheelchair.
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  • Instead, I felt sort of tense, crotchety and out of control most of the day.
  • It's hardly surprising that this bold, or perhaps crotchety, proposal was instantly controversial.
  • Furthermore, a comparison of the way in which crotchets and quavers are notated makes it likely that the same scribe copied both works.
  • Here you have just that kind of crotchet that I am going to deal with. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities.
  • The icing crotchet is breathtaking, quilling is now my favorite, the fabric wedding cake rules the northern hemisphere of cake-dom and I just drank a 64 ounce jug of water so forgive my typos, but Im in a hurry. Sunday Sweets: Gettin' Crafty
  • Suffice it to say, though, it is Arthur (with crotchety old Grandsanta's help) who finally saves the day when elder brother Steve's high-tech logistics system overlooks one little girl's stocking.
  • Everyone would be assigned a familial role: from Old Man Jerry Buss, the wise and sometimes crotchety grandfather, to consigliere Phil Jackson, the trusted family counselor.
  • Well, we were in a baddish way before he came, I own; but this new crotchet of his is past a joke. Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • Tell the truth, luxuriant and beautiful is the sort of very lovely wife, this kind of ambiguous contact lets me be unable to bear or endure mind ripples, surprise mistily think of crotchet night.
  • He captures all the action and introduces us to an eccentric gallery of characters that includes: Dick Hathaway, the crotchety legend who once caught a bluefish from a helicopter; Janet Messineo, a recovering alcoholic who says that striped bass saved her life; and Lev Wlodyka, a cagey local whose next fish will spark a storm of controversy and throw the tournament into turmoil. The Big One by David Kinney: Book summary
  • It would seem a purposeless and even cruel task to recount in some five hundred pages the cranks and crotchets of a great mind, but there is the personal Russell to be chronicled.
  • I can never remember what a crotchet is in US parlance. Gillpolack: Today I find it very hard to focus, so I
  • It's hard to stay crotchety about Christmas when my flatmates are all spirited.
  • It was hard work, I was getting crotchety, and tonight the blisters on my calves are as big as gobstoppers.
  • Note that only crotchet rhythm is given to the strings.
  • Many of them would welcome a diversion (from their real or imaginary ailments) in the form of producing little things such as lace, ganutil, knitted or crotcheted objects, model making, etc …. which could be raffled during certain events where their own relatives would be invited. Timesofmalta.com
  • A knitted or crotcheted hat, with woollen rosettes over the ears, is, in the winter time, an excellent hat for a child subject to ear-ache. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
  • Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • He certainly captures the remoteness of that distant planet, with the relentless ‘processional’ of bass crotchets, which opens and concludes the piece.
  • The oaf wouldn't know the difference between a crotchet, a quaver, and a bash in the chops with a bassoon.
  • Crotchety spinsters, ladies’ companions, put a cheerful face upon it, endure the humors of your so-called benefactress, carry her lapdogs for her; you have an English poodle for your rival, and you must seek to understand the moods of your patroness, and amuse her, and — keep silence about yourselves. The Magic Skin
  • Children will have to feel they can enjoy the activities, she says - and it would help if they could be given a snack, too, so they weren't too hungry and crotchety by the time their parents came to pick them up.
  • As a second time around new mom, this blogger and knitter/crotcheteer also is an example to follow .. Blogbot - forsiden
  • Well, as I am getting older, I find that I'm getting - I don't know - more crotchety?
  • You're a world away from traffic jams, bleeping mobile phones and your crotchety boss.
  • Hopkins, an amateur composer, often described his theory in terms of musical notation, speaking of rests, crotchets, and quavers.
  • I have just invented a portmanteau word - Crumpety - Crotchety and Grumpy.
  • On a black piano sits sheet music with crotchets, quavers and phrases in pencil. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this connection it is noteworthy that the violins in bars 3-4 play in dotted crotchets, the three-eight equivalent of the original dotted minims.
  • And it was not just a fantasm, not just a crotchet. Anywhen
  • The trait is so naturelike and Dickens-like, no American ” no living soul but a peppery, crotchety, good-hearted, mellow old John Bull ” could have done such a thing. Authors and Friends
  • I was raised by some pretty crotchety people who feel that moral responsibility starts with the individual first, society after.
  • Crotchety spinsters, ladies 'companions, put a cheerful face upon it, endure the humors of your so-called benefactress, carry her lapdogs for her; you have an English poodle for your rival, and you must seek to understand the moods of your patroness, and amuse her, and -- keep silence about yourselves. The Magic Skin
  • Long winding streams of syncopated crotchets stretch over my sheet music, jumping this way and that, ready to trap the unwary. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • It's hardly surprising that this bold, or perhaps crotchety, proposal was instantly controversial.
  • Papa has always been a crotchety, grouchy, grumpy yet extremely lovable old coot.
  • Call me a crotchety curmudgeon, but I started on this book with two mental blocks.
  • There are three major protagonists (played by Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, and, a revelation, Eliza Bennett), two minor (another promising youngster, Rafi Gavron, and the incomparable Helen Mirren clearly having the time of her life), and two tertiary (Jim Broadbent in crazed crotchety mode and Sienna Guillory doing fantastic physically expressive work). Inkheart
  • The truth of the matter is, we just live by an increasingly crotchety woman who hates progress.
  • I find myself despairing and crotchety about aspects of modern life.
  • Lord Furnival is getting a little crotchety over my dilatory ways. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • The crotchety and the crooked have their vulnerabilities and kindnesses, and no-one is wholly good or bad.
  • An F# major mode is set out in a layered contrapuntal texture, piccolo and violins marking the fast crotchet beat while glockenspiel, celesta and sampler cut across this with triplet rhythms and a few dissonant pitches.
  • The process was simple: composers strictly followed the metre of the verse, setting long, accented syllables as minims, and short, unaccented ones as crotchets.
  • Amy has a lurcher, who I've looked after on occasion, and she takes my crotchety terrier.
  • Moreover, in "Szomorú Napok" will be found some of Jókai's most original characters, notably, the ludicrous, if infinitely mischievous, political crotcheteer, "Numa Pompilius;" the drunken cantor, Michael Kordé, whose grotesque adventure in the dog-kennel is a true _Fantasiestück à la The Day of Wrath
  • Now, at almost 60, she has grown into a crotchety, cantankerous old woman who, nonetheless, has a deeply sensitive underside and a great affection for the children she minds.
  • There are signs of the latter's influence within Pedro de Cristo's music, including a fondness for narrow overall ranges 16 notes being typical in the works of Francisco de Santa Maria and in the early part of Pedro de Cristo's surviving output, syllabic declamation in crotchets, and the simultaneous use of a cambiata figure in one part and passing notes in another. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from Dora's parlor, so she took the hint, and accepted the lesson. The Man Between: An International Romance
  • Example: Suppose you have a song at 144 BPM and you want to have the equivalent of a quarter note a crotchet for those in the UK of pause somewhere in the middle of the song. Overcoming granular limitations of the stepmania editor
  • Let the limitation of the word disturb our previous estimate of Paradise, grant that it so disturbs that estimate, not the less all such consequences leave the dispute exactly where it was; and if a balance of reason can be found for limiting the extent of the word _aeonian_, it will not be the less true because it may happen to disturb a crotchet of our own. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
  • If no skyborn messenger, heaven looking through his eyes; then neither is it a chimera with his systems, crotchets, cants, fanaticisms, and ‘last infirmity of noble minds, ’—full of misery, unrest and ill-will; but a substantial, peaceable, terrestrial man. Paras. 25-49
  • The three women are, respectively, crotchety old lady, hothead cynic, and frustrated, overachieving go-between.
  • To the left, she could see a parlor with a large fireplace, comfortable looking couches, a crotcheted rug, and a huge Christmas tree, decorated with lights and ornaments and tinsel. Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark Ebook Christmas Set
  • I told KC my plan of her teaching me to crotchet baby booties. Ana-ng Diary Entry
  • My current plan is, once Ellen has her baby, I'll close off the jumper somehow, stuff it, and make it into a little crotcheted Cthuluish toy. Ana-ng Diary Entry
  • But the actor, best known as crotchety one-legged pensioner Winston from Still Game, is delighted to have come through the eventful season with what he believes is a fantastic second series of his hit sitcom. The Daily Record - Home
  • The butler suavely tries to inform her; the housekeeper removed the white crotcheted scarfs and things from the gilded chairs, and I am sure Mrs. Denning had a heartache about their loss; but she saw that they had also vanished from The Man Between, an International Romance
  • Most recently, Boyle was known as the crotchety father on the television comedy series Everybody loves Raymond. Archive 2006-12-01
  • In his early 40s, he was prematurely crotchety.
  • I was feeling miserable and crotchety and on the point of collapse.
  • Now, I'm supposed to be pithy in this column, full of cute and snide comments about my Midwestern family, how they don't get it, how they're getting old and crotchety.
  • She is good reading always, however much we may sometimes pish and pshaw at the untimely poppings-in of the platitudes and crotchets (for he was that most abominable of things, a platitudinous crotcheteer) of Richard her father. The English Novel
  • His mind was already awhirl with ways to bypass the pacifistic Thrall and the crotchety old Cairne and get the Horde what it needed. The Shattering
  • Consecutives on successive minim beats are similarly broken by the intervention of a crotchet if it is a harmony note; not otherwise. Archive 2007-04-01
  • The lace on it is a diamond pattern very pretty crotcheted. Gamble Letter #38
  • On a black piano sits sheet music with crotchets, quavers and phrases in pencil. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's what I call a crotchety conscience -- always in the way of your doing anything like anybody else. Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I
  • He thinks it would have been more "moral" if Mme. de Clèves had actually succumbed as a punishment for her self-reliance (certainly one of the most remarkable topsyturvifications of morality ever crotcheted); is, of course, infinitely shocked at being asked and induced to "interest himself in a prostitute and a card-sharper" by _Manon Lescaut_; and, equally of course, extols Richardson, though it is fair to say that he speaks well of _Tom Jones_. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • Augustine had an aura like lop-eared rabbits and fluffy baby chicks that demanded even the most crotchety of old men stand up and take notice.
  • York is bulging at the walls with Scrooges, Grinches, crotchety crosspatches and other assorted bah humbuggers.
  • Yeah, the clothes alone would put the crotch in crotchety. Slimbo's Jazz Fest Report
  • The trait is so naturelike and Dickens-like, no American -- no living soul but a peppery, crotchety, good-hearted, mellow old John Bull -- could have done such a thing. Authors and Friends
  • The Fry Chronicles" is so slickly charming it seems churlish to harrumph, so I'll merely take a page out of Mr. Fry's book to comment that his compilation of crotchets can be both compelling and cockamamie. True Tales of a Happy Hypocrite
  • Nor does he discuss another dialectic, between the Scherzo's anapestic and amphibrach crotchet groups, sublated after the Trio in that startling alla breve succession of equal minims; nor the hunting topos of the Trio.
  • At the risk of sounding crotchety, I must point out at least one - the most common and persistent one - of these mistakes of loose thinking.
  • The crotchety and the crooked have their vulnerabilities and kindnesses, and no-one is wholly good or bad.
  • That old framed behind glass photo of the siblings is another favorite as well as the old doll cup and plates and the crotcheted collar. Welcome to Boxwood Cottage!
  • The process was simple: composers strictly followed the metre of the verse, setting long, accented syllables as minims, and short, unaccented ones as crotchets.
  • His trademark cold, monotone delivery and crotchety attitude has often been imitated but never matched.
  • Serge #6: Had he been a bishop he might have set fire to his crotchet. Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems
  • Finally, there was a pair of crotchety knights, Sir William Fawnt and the popish recusant Sir Henry Shirley, who sought to bring down Huntingdon by levying false charges of fraud against him.
  • The Palin pick already, as Noemie Emery wrote, “Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.” The Palin Gamble - Swampland - TIME.com
  • Kael needs to be read the way she wrote: in bulk with all her crotchets, perversities and forgotten controversies intact. What She Found in the Dark
  • If my feet are comfortable, then I don't get crotchety and start moaning.

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