How To Use Fiddle In A Sentence

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She took a deep breath and fiddled with the sapphire necklace hanging down below her collar bone.
He sits back and fiddles with a legwarmer. Times, Sunday Times
The seven young musicians play an exciting assortment of instruments including bodhran, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, bass, fiddle, Asturian bagpipes and flute.
She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.

Gin he had hauden till 's fiddle, he wad hae been playin 'her the nicht, in place o' 's airm lyin 'at 's side like a lang lingel (ligneul -- shoemaker's thread).' Robert Falconer
It gradually draws you in, though the grating incidental fiddle music does its best to spit you back out again. Times, Sunday Times
Crikey readers have contributed a lot of stories on circulation rorts, fiddles and the like over the past week or so, but here's another tale, a bit historical, which would be hysterical if it wasn't serious.
For those adventurous eaters (at least in my book), here is a collection of fiddlehead recipes. How cute are these fiddleheads?? « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
He keeps his back to her as he fiddles with the coffee maker. THE SAVAGE GIRL
Yet he is still as fit as a fiddle and hungrier than ever. The Sun
These are fiddleheads, the young shoots of the ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, and the cinnamon fern, Osmunda cinnamonum.
Today's preprocessed Nashville pop music with fiddles and steel guitars and twangy vocals, UNCOOL! Playing harsh with the field of music
There may be fiddle playing, singing, guitar playing, Irish dancing, poetry reading, lie-telling and leg-pulling.
The real total was thirty-eight pounds, nine shillings, two pence, but why fiddle with details?
“The Fiddler of Bayou Teche” by Delia Sherman is Southern fantasy with a tenebrous twist. Books in 2009, #12
His fricassee of snails contains the spicy Japanese condiment red yuzu kosho, local fiddlehead ferns and resinous Greek mastic infused with English peas. Snails Quicken Their Culinary Pace
Add in personal self enrichment from expense fiddles, petty corruption and barefaced lying to that toxicosis. Archive 2008-11-01
It consists of bronze gongs, keyed metallophones (like xylophones), drums, a flute, a rebab fiddle, and a celempung zither.
Except for the fiddle at a dance or a melodeon at home, frontier music, in its cultural aspects, was largely confined to amateur bands with plenty of oompah. THE AMERICAN WEST
Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes. In Praise of Folly
Near the edge of the sea you'll find fiddler crab, ragworm and shore crab, sea mice and tiny blenny fish. Times, Sunday Times
Cats composed tunes on fiddles, making music that only I could hear. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
They intended to cut a major scene out of the beginning and they had also fiddled with the end quite a bit.
Andy Ricker, who won the 2011 James Beard award for best chef in the Northwest, shops the stalls of Hmong farmers at his Portland, Oregon, market to find fiddlehead ferns, vegetables like "phak khanaa" or Chinese broccoli, exotic, untranslatable herbs and crucial ingredients like cilantro root for the innovative Asian cuisine he turns out at his restaurant Pok Pok. Chefs talk about unusual farmers market finds
The brigadier was a thick-set, soldierly looking man, fit as a fiddle in spite of the grey hairs which mingled with his brown moustache, and his eyes lit up as he saw his two sons still safe and well. With Haig on the Somme
The off-key singing of the congregations at Church and the reels and jigs of the Connecticut fiddle players enchanted him.
The bagpipes, ‘squeezebox’ and fiddle were the main instruments and the band really got people in the mood.
Those canadian altern-a-teens with those goddamn fiddles!, Joegood Diary Entry
Reading the literature, one can hear fiddles, wood flutes, bagpipes, guitar, mandolins and bodhráns.
“Fostering collaborative structures, where hierarchy plays second fiddle to flexibility, is seen as a way to attract the best graduates,” Woodward says. Why Generation Y matters « pwcom 2.0
They have people who are quite skilled statisticians, call actuaries, who fiddle over mountains of data to decide how much to charge who in order to maximize profit while still being able to offer comeptitive premiums. Slashdot
She receives wonderfully sympathetic support from a tight-knit cast of sidemen, and adds her own fiddle, organ and calabash textures. Times, Sunday Times
Classes for youth eight years and up include fiddle, band, handbells, drumdancing, guitar, choir, songs and games.
When I was there the fiddler was a septuagenarian named John MacDougal, who sat straight up in a plain chair and rasped out jigs, reels, strathspeys and airs with solemnity worthy of a judge.
It has been alleged that the scam centres around cash fiddles at the large store, which is in Ocotal Way.
Traditional folk instruments include the bandura, a variety of flutes, various fiddles and basses, drums and rattles, the bagpipe, the hurdy-gurdy, the Jew's harp, and the hammered dulcimer.
It gradually draws you in, though the grating incidental fiddle music does its best to spit you back out again. Times, Sunday Times
Morgan watched her as she fiddled with the corner of her notebook, picking at it with her small fingers…
If so, didn't you think that the woman fiddler in Frigg looked way too much like Meg? Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
The narrative in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.
Moving over matter which has the qualities that we denote by the term fluid, the swayings which the air produces are of a peculiar sort, though they much resemble those of the fiddle string. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
She was always good at repetition, at combining melody and harmony and rolling them over into country drone, but Rawlings is replaced here on half the tracks by a fiddle.
you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing
Be careful not to fiddle with indicators until they tell you what you want to hear.
One of the aliens scuttled forward and fiddled with one of its gadgets, finally producing an audible series of grunts, whistles, and squeaks which to Jerome's untutored ears sounded exactly like the sounds of dolphins. A Simple Misunderstanding
He gave us a tune on his fiddle.
In addition to square dancing and stepdancing, the Newfoundlanders will also be playing numerous instruments including fiddle, bagpipes, guitar, mandolin, banjo and button accordion. The Telegram: Local News
Pity the poor orchestra having to play second fiddle to that load of rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
A discreet virtuoso, Yates adapts skipping folk-fiddle melodies to trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, and his engaging themes – full of light, fluttering figures – are compatibly supported by Bende's bell-like chording and Byrne's galloping low-register sounds on the bodhran drum and Latin-American cajon. Neil Yates: Five Countries – review
Wearing earplugs, safety glasses, and an improbably spotless white polo shirt, Lee steps between rolls of wire, fiddles with machines, then heads to his office to handle a client call.
Yet he could still turn up unannounced at any time in a bar in a far-flung corner of the Highlands with a fiddle under his chin. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, the veteran archer, as Elliot calls her; and Mr. Faulkner says, if she appears in character at all, it must be as Queen Elizabeth herself dancing a stately pavise to the sound of the little fiddle. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
Having been a virtuosic banjo player, he played the guitar like a fiddle and had the depth of a jazz musician. The Sun
And she will be on banjo and fiddle again, after putting them to one side for the solo album. Times, Sunday Times
Daniel fiddled with his cup and sighed, bouncing his daughter, Grace, on his knee.
As Mars and others have documented, this point would seem to apply to a wide range of occupational scams and fiddles, ranging from the top-floor board room to the basement boiler room.
Its primary biological meaning was then, and in some contexts continues to be, an unfolding, as in the unfolding of an organism from a fertilized egg or the unfolding of a fern from a fiddlehead.
Before going at the piles of splintered remains with wooden mallets, Mick and Mairtin get juiced on a potent Irish moonshine called poteen and fiddle with the unearthed bits. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
Hang up one's fiddle when one comes home.
Oh, and she plays vivacious fiddle and banjo, too. Times, Sunday Times
They started out with Prickle-Eye Bush from their first recording, six years ago, and were joined on stage by a sword swallower, before treating Cold Blows the Wind to an arrangement that mixed jazzy swing from the brass section with edgy playing from the three fiddlers. Bellowhead/Baghdaddies – review
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
On this album she plays guitar, tenor guitar, mandolin and tenor banjo slightly more than she plays fiddle.
Their grandfather played the fiddle, and their father is a piper and singer of Gaelic songs.
The bow (like the funambulist with the soles of his slippers fresh chalked) kept glancing on and off, till we hoped he would be off altogether and break his neck; and now the least harsh and grating of the cords snaps up in the fiddler's face, and a crude one is to be applied; and now -- but what is the use of pursuing the description? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
I just need to fiddle around with it to get it in the optimal listening order.
They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Redgauntlet
Keening vocals and flying fiddles mix with kora, bagpipe and drum in a dramatic melange of sound. Times, Sunday Times
The fiddles are faster and feistier, there is more trumpet and trombone. Times, Sunday Times
Scientists found male fiddler crabs often aid their neighbors when intruders threaten to move in.
In uncertain times, it makes sense to have as many strings to your bow as a well-provisioned fiddler or a prudent toxophilite.
Just having a fiddle trying to align my table cells a bit better!
Dampier and Mr Hobby were left alone on their ship, within hearing of the buccaneers, who sang, and danced to the fiddle, and clinked the cannikin, till the moon had set. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
One of my favourite players, Herschel Sizemore, on his tuition DVD, states that the Monroe 'downstroke' style was just too hard for him to do, so he developed the 'other' Monroe style, the 'fiddle' style of playing. Mandolin Cafe News
In the final section, shot through with Scottish folk and fiddle music, Joaquin de Luz and Daniel Ulbricht lead a thrilling take on the hornpipe.
He was once observed listening to one of Scotland's leading fiddle players with tears of emotion running down his face. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, through the hands of Dumouriez, may Rouget de Lille, in figurative speech, be said to have gained, miraculously, like another Orpheus, by his Marseillese fiddle-strings (fidibus canoris) a Victory of Jemappes; and conquered the Low Countries. The French Revolution
The reporter fiddle with the facts
He took it down, and opened the case to find a stringless fiddle resting under a square of green velvet. FALSE MERMAID
French cheese flight at Fiddlehead Cafe A nutty, sheeps-milk Ossau-Iraty from the Basque region; a rich, creamy Edel de Cleron by Perrin Vermot; and a devastating co-op-produced bleu d'Auvergne that combined a sweet creaminess with some powerfully earthy, moldy scunge. Chicago Reader
The fiddlers best qualified to speak with authority will often disagree absolutely regarding the use of a string, position, up-bow or down-bow. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
The commonly eaten fiddleheads in eastern North America are those of ostrich fern, a native woodland plant.
He looked as if he intended to say "pshaw" or "fiddlesticks" or something of that order, then changed his mind and looked up sharply. When Eight Bells Toll
At El Dorado High School in Placentia, she played Marian in The Music Man, Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Agnes Gooch in Mame. Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Deborah Voigt Launches a Rich New Season of Firsts
I remember a Mark O'Connor fiddle workshop many years back where someone seriously asked him what kind of rosin he used. Mandolin Cafe News
her husband demands, the famously intimidating brows beetling like two grizzled insects as he proceeds to fiddle with a radiator.
There was a perfect flow of musical chemistry too within her band, creating huge multi-layered washes of sound - for three fiddles, a melodeon and a tuba can be surprisingly heavy hitting in their intensity.
Music workshops will be held in flute, fiddle, bodhrán, concertina and button accordion with highly talented musicians as tutors.
The records were fiddled to make the crime stats look good.
Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.” Saint Ronan's Well
It's as if - unlike Ives, where three different bands coming from their own starting points and going their own way might suddenly meet - more and more fiddlers, each contributing their own line, joined in a single dance.
The music played in the orchestra was very beautiful; and the officer, who had behaved so politely to us in permitting the gates, on the first night of our arrival, to be opened, seated on a high stool, rose conspicuously above the other musicians, and seemed indeed the _first fiddle_. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
Make it clear you aren't prepared to play second fiddle to anyone. The Sun
Ants don't carry calendars around with them any more than fiddler crabs possess real wrist watches.
But, as soon as Thwittler yerd th 'fiddle name't, he gav a sort of wild skrike, an' crope lower down into bed. Th' Barrel Organ
After years of playing second fiddle to margarine and spread, butter is back and there are lots to choose from. Times, Sunday Times
Many of these songs are meant to be played at dances or parties, where you could reasonably expect people to be in the middle of a contradance; like today's trance and electronic musics, most fiddle tunes have few or no lyrics, and a catchy melody that self perpetuates. Phawker
Worldwide, the fiddleheads most commonly consumed are those of bracken (Pteridium).
They have learned second fiddle by playing in the gaps between the comings and goings of staffers. Christianity Today
I fiddle with the stem of my wineglass, glancing around the restaurant at all the other happy couples.
They were young, good-looking and although their music undoubtedly had a pop crossover appeal, they were patently ‘real’ country, with fiddles and banjos and dobros to the fore.
I note that book publishing itself is becoming much more honest, truthful, unimpeachable, authentic, and precise about everything from numbers of books sold to the unvarnished, unexaggerated, unerring, and unaffected stories it tells as all who toil and sweat in this scrupulous business strive as best we can to maintain the veracious sheen-of-sham and hocus pocus so inherently attached like Superglue to our equivocated reputations for flimflam and fiddle-dee-dee. Obscure Books, Part II - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—that is to say, a self-contained but slightly smug little kid called Wolfie—plays second fiddle to his older sister in René Féret's beguiling celebration, in French with English subtitles, of the family's other prodigy. 'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget
Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled with it.
Having been a virtuosic banjo player, he played the guitar like a fiddle and had the depth of a jazz musician. The Sun
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
A choreographer doesn't want to watch you fiddle with your hair or adjust your clothing.
It was the day when the second fiddle became the leader of the orchestra.
His wife fiddled with her spoons, putting the dessert spoon into the curve of the soup spoon.
They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert's house at Redgauntlet
The roll of shame includes medics who made fatal misdiagnoses, botched operations, fiddled expenses and attempted theft. The Sun
She calls the fiddler, and the bass player, and the drummer, and dancers, and whoever else is around, to do their one thing, make their one contribution to the bigger sound. Expecting Rain
Czech players were once legendary for their instinctive musicianship, most notably the fiddlers.
The four-piece Quebecois band will be bringing hurdy-gurdies, fiddles, accordions, guitars, and lots of toe-tapping reels and two-steps to the stage, along with waltzes and ballads that will surely help you shake off the cold.
The whole affair was, he insisted, a "muddle rather than a fiddle".
I have no intention of playing second fiddle to the new director, so I've resigned.
I'm one of the few people I know who fixes hardware purely through the laying on of hands - sometimes I have a bit of a fiddle and pull things out before putting them back in, or generally twiddle knobs and such.
His son plays him like a fiddle, using him as an excuse and emotionally blackmailing him into submission.
The instruments available are fiddles, flutes, banjos, concertinas, accordions, a melodeon and a practice set of uillean pipes.
She fiddled the books while working as an accountant.
And I played on my fiddle til the boatie cam 'back. I'll Tell Ma
Every Prime Minister since then sought to fiddle with the format to extract maximum advantage - and make no mistake, the incumbent calls the tune.
The violins thirds quiveringly descend from the climax to a low F and the final quatrain returns to narration, over the fiddle's sustained bitonal notes.
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Willie the best fiddler that ever kittled thairm with horse-hair.’ Redgauntlet
The Fiddler's Green Festival Committee has regretfully announced that the Tommy Fleming concert scheduled for Wednesday July 23 has been cancelled.
In the absence of having anything of substance to write about, I have updated my profile and fiddled around with my links.
- for the sake of one's ears, in mercy, stop that everlasting twangle of your old fiddle! Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
If you thought Celtic music was fiddles, jigs and reels, this extraordinary album will be a platform for your transfiguration.
It was clear that Rayshan was on a steep learning curve, and in the back straight he fiddled the sixth flight of hurdles, and suddenly his glittering potential looked set to be tarnished.
The curtain descended slowly amidst sympathetic sobs and silence -- the musicians themselves, deeply moved, no doubt, with the sorrows of the scene, mournfully resumed their fiddles, and struck up "ti _ti_ tum _tiddle_ un _ti_ tum Records of a Girlhood
‘Sin City’ is a traditional honky-tonk duet with Beck and Harris, complete with pedal steel and fiddle.
Beth then fiddles with her cardigan buttons, making sure for the fourth time in ten minutes that she's successfully refastened her sweater.
He embarks on a rant about a late Evening Standard critic and fiddles with his lighter to calm down.
And under the quiet narration is even gentler music, music that strives to be subliminal, tinkled on a parlor piano and diffidently accompanied by a fiddle or banjo.
But the band began to gel and the unlikely blend of African rhythm, folk fiddle and classical cadences to work its whimsical magic. Times, Sunday Times
The MOT test is a money-making fiddle for many garages.
He ain't _shikker_ yet, so I told him he should go over and fiddle a couple _czardas_ till you come, and to tell the boss you got a _Magenweh_ and would be a little late. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter
So when you tear through the shrink wrap to get to the actual album, you have to fiddle with this tight-fitting plastic sleeve before you can get to the CD.
Voices shouted below, accompanied by the mournful wail of a fiddle; and then, in countermelody, the lilt of a penny whistle. Masked
Watch out for those who wax pious about their imagined sacramental link with their constituencies - to which we should reply fiddlesticks.
The fiddler was a boy of those parts, about twelve years of age, who had a wonderful dexterity in jigs and reels, though his fingers were so small and short as to necessitate a constant shifting for the high notes, from which he scrambled back to the first position with sounds not of unmixed purity of tone. Wessex Tales
If they bring thee back safe, they may chance to sing to the twiggen fiddle-bow, that they may be warned from such folly; but if they come back without thee, by All-hallows the wind of wrath shall sweep their heads off them! The Water of the Wondrous Isles
BOMB-DISPOSAL robot creeps up a flyover in the west Baghdad suburb of Ghazaliya, as American army sappers fiddle with their communications devices.
The glamorous Danish fiddler Nikolaj Znaider was the soloist in Brahms's Violin Concerto, a big concert opener, on the whole well played, though Znaider's slender tone occasionally sounded pushed to fill the space.
In Titanic, virtually every Englishman was insufferable, while happy Irish fiddlers and dancers created a wonderful atmosphere in steerage.
He kept shtum and didn't embarrass her once for the following 11 years and, instead, contented himself with being an almost mute second fiddle to a woman of whom he was inordinately proud.
Slaves had been playing fiddle as early as the seventeenth century.
She fiddled about with guitar leads and made goofy faces. Times, Sunday Times
So my friend's daughter had to walk around like a target with 700 in her bag presumably so that a shameless landlord could fiddle his tax. Times, Sunday Times
Feeling strangely out of place, DJ fiddled with her fingers in her lap and looked around nervously.
He created a private eye named Spenser who spends his free time making gourmet food, including 'buffalo tenderloin marinated in red wine and garlic served with fiddle head ferns, corn pudding, and red potatoes cooked with bay leaf,' and 'German sausages with green apples sliced dipped in flour and fried in the sausage fat. Happy Birthday, Robert B. Parker!
Nervously, I fiddled with the ribbon sash on my straw hat.
All that foreign interference accomplishes is to reinforce the idea that the Middle East (once seat of the vast, powerful, hugely influential Ottoman Empire) must now play second fiddle to the West. Wonk Room » Open Letter To Robert Kagan
It's one of those dishes that's just crying out for some mandarin chicken salad and a scoop of ambrosia, held in one hand on a paper plate while you fiddle with the coffee urn with the other.
Pity the poor orchestra having to play second fiddle to that load of rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
Since then, he has always played second fiddle. Times, Sunday Times
This year's closing festival of Edmonton's busy summer will unite the orchestra with the erhu, a two-stringed Chinese fiddle which is played somewhat like a small cello.
A group (taraf) composed of the fiddle (scripca), the dulcimer (lumbal), and unfretted lute AvaxHome RSS:
They were also likely to be less tolerant of corrupt behaviour, such as fiddling expenses, but only if such fiddles were not the norm in the country. Times, Sunday Times
She began playing contradances while in high school, went on to Eastman School of Music, and now performs and teaches fiddle and violin in the Rochester area.
Also known as fiddle leaf fig. Times, Sunday Times
And she will be on banjo and fiddle again, after putting them to one side for the solo album. Times, Sunday Times
Fiddler Gerry Harrington and accordionist Eoghan O'Sullivan will bring their years of musical experience to bear on what promises to be a relaxed and very entertaining evening of traditional music.
It is played on instruments that include the gaida, kaval (seven-hole reed pipe), gadulka (pear-shaped fiddle), tambura (fretted lute), and tupan (cylindrical drum).
Hang up one's fiddle when one comes home.
M. de Bonneval happened to mention the dance called forlana, and Ismail expressing a great wish to know it, I told him that I could give him that pleasure if I had a Venetian woman to dance with and a fiddler who knew the time. Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 03: Military Career
There are others who fiddle about at the edges of things, such as the stranger's gang, the schoolmaster's mistress, a boy who comes for private lessons, the barber, the surgeon.
She fiddled with the catch of her bag.
It was all so sudden and we experienced the pain and heartbreak of each health report of our poor lead fiddle player.
The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
Kate fiddled with her seatbelt for a minute, trying to work out exactly how the thin piece of blue material was supposed to save her life if the plane began to plummet twenty-five thousand feet towards the ground.
The equally sheepish assistant fiddled with the mouse and looked blankly at the screen.
The band, consisting of a drummer, a piper and a fiddler, was playing a Torrencian song she knew, and she couldn't resist trying to join in.
IT'S not easy playing second fiddle. The Sun
ID says that an intelligent designer, "fiddled" with the evolutionary process....except of course we have no idea HOW, no idea WHY, no idea WHAT, no idea WHEN and most certainly no idea WHO and apparently it is strictly verboten to even ask. If the irony were any thicker ...
When I was growing up there were two sorts of cameras, one where people could fiddle with a lens and get a perfect picture or an automatic which would do it all for you (my kind of camera).
Folklore described Watson as "a powerful singer and a tremendously influential picker who virtually invented the art of playing mountain fiddle tunes on the flattop guitar."
When the music director for the Vancouver Olympic Games wanted to feature Canadian fiddle music in the opening ceremony, he called St. Paul's Calvin Vollrath. Canada.com Top Stories
Many bars and restaurants had dance floors and bands: fiddle, guitar, accordion, drums rattling out another infectious two-step or catering for the less energetic with a graceful waltz.
On February 22nd, 2010 at 11: 26 am fiddledeedee said: The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed
Fiddlefest was the country cousin to the New Orleans music festival staged earlier this year.
This year the New York Asian Film Festival says ³fiddle dee dee² to the economic apocalypse and we¹re singing in the rain of fire and brimstone that heralds the end of the world. Twitch
Bonneval happened to mention the dance called forlana, and Ismail expressing a great wish to know it, I told him that I could give him that pleasure if I had a Venetian woman to dance with and a fiddler who knew the time. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The Hotelol we stayed in hadz peeps jess sittin an talking an storee tellin,den a randum peep wud pik a up a geetar or a fiddle an play a choon awl impromptu. See - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
So this most compulsive of fiddlers will hope to continue tying and re-tying his laces and towelling his face well into the final week.
She nervously fiddled with the ties on her shirt.
MK, I thought the Israelis used the light weight AR15 for general field work & Uzi for intimate encounters and true to form they bought the AR15s by the boxload, fiddled & twiddled & made them better than the original? Cheeseburger Gothic » FNQ
She fiddled about with guitar leads and made goofy faces. Times, Sunday Times
We need a cowcatcher to clear traffic! and a bagpipe and fiddle song playing in the background on repeat. Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » …she’s ba’-a-a-a-ck…
Parry came down Hecla's side in this huge cloak that he didn't throw off even when all the men were assembled — most in costume, we had this huge trunk of costumes on each ship — and when he did throw down the cloak, we saw Parry as that old Marine — you remember the one with the peg leg what played the fiddle for ha'pennies near Chatham? The Terror
A rare opportunity to see the four guys perform together since they first joined forces five years ago, the 8pm performance promises familiar songs sublimely arranged for melodeon, concertina, oboe, fiddle, mandolin and guitar.
She fiddled about with guitar leads and made goofy faces. Times, Sunday Times
If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
arabesque" and other formal designs gave employment to the carvers, in making an infinite repetition of fiddles, festoons, and ribbons, in the execution of which they became so proficient, that their work is more often admired for its exquisite finish than for any intrinsic interest in the subject or design. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship
Or else you can submit a ‘building notice’ to the local authority, saying how you propose to fiddle with the electrics in your kitchen.
Fiddler Seán Keane joined the band in 1968, harpist/keyboardist Derek Bell became a full-fledged Chieftain in 1974, bodhrán specialist and singer Kevin Conneff was enlisted in 1976 and flute player Matt Molloy came on board in 1979.
Then another Commission official was forced out for whistle-blowing on budget fiddles.

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