hornpipe

How To Use hornpipe In A Sentence

• Strathspeys, jigs, reels and hornpipes from various sources are all fed through Greenberg and McGuinness's loving, yet idiosyncratic arrangements.
• The homely sound, likewise, of a rustical hornpipe is more agreeable to my ears than the curious warbling and musical quavering of lutes, theorbos, viols, rebecs, and violins. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• I sang them the old hunting - song, and they said I did it tunably, and, whereas they saw I could already dance a hornpipe and turn a somersault passably well, the leader of the troop, old Nat Fire-eater, took me on, and methinks he did not repent -- nor I neither -- save when I sprained my foot and had time to lie by and think. The Armourer's Prentices
• Someone played the piano and I danced in my new green dance costume and hornpipe shoes.
• Sylvia O'Donovans display of Irish dancing was a big hit as were the reels and hornpipes of cousins Deirdre Bonham and Gillian Reilly from the Mary Gohery school of dancing.
• It is the instrument that best tells the story of our collective loss and longing in slow airs like the Coolin and also our perky sense of survival in clipping jigs reels and hornpipes - like the Mason's Apron.
• For example, the hornpipe must be danced between 112 and 116 [beats per minute].
• He literally snatched the pouch out of Ziada's hands and, seemingly of their own accord, his feet did a small hornpipe.
• The traditional association of the hornpipe with British seamen seems to have begun in the late 18th century.
• The 17-track album features jigs, reels, songs, waltzes, hornpipes, polkas, a two step, slow air, highland fling and recitation.