How To Use Descant In A Sentence
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Miss Margland, who never felt so virtuous, and never so elated, as when witnessing the imperfections or improprieties of others, descanted largely against ingratitude; treating an unmeaning sally of passion as a serious mark of turpitude: but Eugenia, ashamed for Dr. Orkborne, to whom, as her preceptor, she felt a constant disposition to be partial, determined to endeavour to induce him to make some apology.
Camilla
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Even when you hit a bum chord the guitar can make a lovely sound, which means it is a far more forgiving instrument than the descant recorder I played in Primary 5.
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Accordingly, four plants containing raphides were selected, two of which, the _Calla cassia_ and Indian turnip, were highly acrid, and two, the _Fuchsia_ and _Tradescantia_, or Wandering Jew, were perfectly bland to the taste.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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Fruits Basket (Eps 13-14) (Pleasant little kids intrigue descant with little plot) (New)
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A soaring girl soprano descant adds another heavenly layer to the already rich texture.
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Wandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina): Also known as "Inch Plant", Wandering Jew has leaves with strong dark green and silvery green contrast.
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I had been going to mark the 1000th posting here with a descant on futility and failure, as is traditional on New Year's Eve.
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But I was not disturbed, for I knew what I knew, and when I returned to my own igloo, I descanted to Moosu, and said: 'Happily the property right obtains amongst this people, who otherwise have been blessed with but few of the institutions of men.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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In the bottoms were frequently seen tradescantia, and on the dry lenches were carduus, cactus, and amorpha.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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The 1970s detail is quite particular: a chopper bike, space hopper and the piercing tunelessness of the daughter's descant recorder are all thrown into the rowing family's maelstrom.
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We think Mr. Hazlitt's notes are, in the main, good; but we should like to know his authority for saying that _pench_ means "the hole in a bench by which it was taken up," -- that "descant" means
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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I could descant at much greater length upon all the varied improvements that have recently taken place, and the prospects for future applications of electric current in electrochemical industries and various branches of arts and science, but such would be sufficient to form the topic for a paper by themselves, and I have already trespassed on your indulgence, and will at once conclude.
Niagara's Power: Past, Present, Prospective
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Intoxicated with the idea, she ran through many a melodious descant, till, touching on the first strains of 'Thusa ha measg na reultan mor', she saw Wallace start from his contemplative position, and with a pale countenance leave the room.
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He descanted endlessly upon the wonders of his trip.
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When he has begun to descant on a subject which interests his morbid feelings, he knows not when to pass to another.
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_Tradescantia_ -- This is otherwise known as spiderwort, Wandering Jew,
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
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Right glad would I be to visit you & your dear family & pass many pleasant moments in your domestic circle recounting olden times & descanting somewhat perhaps upon your future professional & my future hymenial prospects.
Augusta County: B. Estill to John McCue, February 13, 1860
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Shall I sing the descant in the last verse?
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Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast.
December 7th, 2005
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I tend to grow them with grasses and similar prairie plants such as silphium, tradescantias, helleniums and asters.
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A requiem was led by the violas and `cellos, with overtones from a choir of descant clarinets.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Wandering Jew Tradescantia zebrina: Also known as “Inch Plant”, Wandering Jew has leaves with strong dark green and silvery green contrast.
What Plants Are Cubicle-Friendly? | Lifehacker Australia
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Now a "descant" is a variation imposed upon a plain-song.
Milton
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In some hymnals a descant is provided for the refrain.
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The sweetness of robins and chiffchaffs descanted subtly from hazel or elder beneath the harsh, relentless chorus of the rooks in the ash-tops.
Wildwood
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I also grow a silver-leafed version of the common green-leaf brunnera called Jack Frost, which is particularly amazing-looking when its bright blue flowers are blooming, and a variety of spiderwort (Tradescantia) called Sweet Kate, whose own blue flowers stand out against its unusual bright yellow leaves instead of the typical green ones.
My Not-So-Exotic Garden
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The fuchsia and tradescantia contained bundles of raphides of the same form and equally as fine as those of the acrid plants.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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Penillion is soaked in the Welsh tradition of improvised vocal descants to the harper's melody.
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Guards; is deeply read in the comparative merits of different bands, and the apparelling of trumpeters; and is very luminous indeed in descanting upon ‘crack regiments,’ and the ‘crack’ gentlemen who compose them, of whose mightiness and grandeur he is never tired of telling.
Sketches by Boz
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Wandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina): Also known as “Inch Plant”, Wandering Jew has leaves with strong dark green and silvery green contrast.
What Plants Are Cubicle-Friendly? | Lifehacker Australia
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An elderly woman, arms crossed, sang the descant, sad and haunting, of La Pampina d'aliva.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Combine with a foreground planting of tradescantias to create a cool oasis of vibrant blues and greens.
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A requiem was led by the violas and `cellos, with overtones from a choir of descant clarinets.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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I find not myself concerned in his ensuing talk, but only in one reflection on the words of the Scripture, and the repetition of his old, putid, and shameless calumny, p. 108, until we come to p. 126, where he arraigns an occasional discourse of mine about the necessity of holiness and good works; wherein he hath only filched out of the whole what he thought he could wrest unto his end, and scoffingly descant upon.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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Jacques told me that everyone was in such awe when I sang it, no one would sing the descant while I was at college.
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It is a pleasure to hear my refugee patients descant on that great historical achievement.
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These wonderful letters are a descant to the two recent major biographies.
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Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, &c., have descanted upon Catnach's rendezvous, but we must content with quoting one extract from Chas.
James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1
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The wind itself answered in a kind of obbligato descant: The Witch is dead!
Son of a Witch
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He risked glancing up and saw that the descant spell was working.
THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
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It aned strange that they had made no igements for the care of their houseplants. pradescantias, peperomias, a cissus that ibed to the ceiling on carefully spaced igs, a Joseph's coat, a variegated ivy, all ing down leaves that were limp and parched.
Put On By Cunning
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There was, all the same, an unmistakable descant to yesterday's cheerfully celebratory spectacular.
Royal wedding: A peculiarly British day | Editorial
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This tone, with a long descant at the beginning of each verse, and a long and solemn conclusion, represents the weeping of the Church over His death.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 2 - The Masses of Palm Sunday, Holy Tuesday and Spy Wednesday
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Now a commonplace person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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All tradescantias tend to lose their lower leaves with age and should be propagated regularly.
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The name "organum" was dropped and the new system became known as tenor and descant, the tenor being the principal or foundation melody, and the descant or descants (for there could be as many as there were parts or voices to the music) taking the place of the organum.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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They, along with the self sown tradescantias, violets, hollyhocks and dame's rocket are part of the greater urban garden.
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At one point, prior to descanting on conservatism with a small ‘c’, she says sharply, ‘Don't interrupt me during this bit ’, but I didn't really mind - it gave me time to eat.
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Jo Wherry, on violin and treble viol, played an excellent descant solo, and Jonathan Burr, who is able to produce music on the difficult mediaeval cornett, also has a pleasant singing voice.
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African descant, which is why they dominant most sports where this explosive power is an asset.
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Since I've never had any tradescantias previously, I don't know what to compare it to, but I look forward to dividing this one and getting a few more.
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Ken Clarke was so close to the action that when the choirboys did their descant, it looked as though it was coming from him, and he had a surprisingly high, sweet voice.
Royal wedding guest list: perplexing – and where was naughty Uncle Gary?
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During the descant finale, however, instinct won out.
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The girl singers were asked to descant on the tune.
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You'll notice this on cranesbill geraniums, alchemilla, dicentra, nepeta, thalictrum and tradescantia, among others.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have several daylilies and tradescantias with well developed flower buds.
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Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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Sarah Dowling's poetry has appeared in The Capilano Review, Cue, Descant, EOAGH, How2, and West Coast Line, and is forthcoming in Dusie and the ixnay reader.
Sarah Dowling reads Erin Moure
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The song is presented in three arrangements - in three parts with descant, in one part with a descant and in three parts without a descant and there is also a recording of the instrumental backing without singers.
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Well, last night our talk turned on lugubrious subjects, and Mr. Pike, wicked old man that he is, descanted on the wickedness of the world and on the wickedness of the man who had murdered Captain
CHAPTER XXIV
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Having the accompanying instrumentalists modulate to a higher key on the final stanza of a hymn, or adding a choral descant or special choral ending to the hymn, can add interest to the singing.
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When they start singing, the bishop intones a Gregorian style chant that sounds both orthodox and Arab and the choir provides a deep rhythmic descant that is unmistakably African.
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Wandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina): Also known as "Inch Plant", Wandering Jew has leaves with strong dark green and silvery green contrast.
Lifehacker
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The congregation found strength in the final chord, swelling together with the organ's descant and sat down with resolve, in fluid motion.
Go to Jesus
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He risked glancing up and saw that the descant spell was working.
THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
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But I was not disturbed, for I knew what I knew, and when I returned to my own igloo, I descanted to Moosu and said: 'Happily the property right obtains amongst this people, who otherwise have been blessed with but few of the institutions of men.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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His _descant_ is besy, [15] it is without a _mene_,
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
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It was an enjoyable evening but the danger of where we seem to be going kept reasserting itself like a descant to the pleasant sound of casual conversation.
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The collection, something of a sensation, came to be known as Tradescant's Ark and served as the nucleus of what is today the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
How Their Garden Did Grow
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He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace.
In Old Kentucky
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The constant sound of Calcutta is the cacophony of horns and the descant of millions of crows.
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An elderly woman, arms crossed, sang the descant, sad and haunting, of La Pampina d'aliva.
THE GOLDEN LION
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He spoke of the long moonless night lyings-in - wait, the pestilential fens, the rivers envenomed by leaves of poison-plants, the deep snow-drifts, the scorching suns, the scorpions, and rains of grasshoppers; he also descanted on the peculiarities of the great lions of the Atlas, their way of fighting, their phenomenal vigour; and their ferocity in the mating season.
Tartarin of Tarascon
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To 'descant' meant to sing or play an _extempore_ second 'part' to a written melody.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
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After having a a little descanted on this Adventure, we resolved to go to the Rose, to wash down our Disappointments, and try to meet some of our Acquaintance as they came out of the Play, and hear what Transactions, what Intrigues, and other little trifling News the House afforded that Evening.
The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
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This personal reasoning pinched the Landamman somewhat closely, for he had but a short while before descanted on the generosity of the elder
Anne of Geierstein