bravuras

I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clatter of sticks cooking my meals.

Shambhala SunSpace - John Tarrant’s “Escape Arts in Delusionville”: My Average Life William Harryman 2009

_He_ never puts a song in the throat of a jay or a wood-dove; _he_ never makes a mother-bird break out in bravuras; _he_ never puts a sickle into green grain, or a trout in a slimy brook; _he_ could picture no orchis growing on a hillside, or columbine nodding in a meadow.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

How many tragedies find their peaceful catastrophe in fierce roulades and strenuous bravuras!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

Yet if, apart from all bravuras of rhetoric, Mr Bennett seriously presses the question regarding Paradise as a question in geography, we are sorry that we must vote against Ceylon, for the reason that heretofore we have pledged ourselves in print to vote in favour of Cashmeer; which beautiful vale, by the way, is omitted in Mr Bennett's list of the candidates for that distinction already entered upon the roll.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

There is naught in art's bravuras that can work with such a spell,

Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

Those simple airs were more congenial to the depressed spirits of the whole assemblage than the most showy bravuras; and, sung by those handsome creatures -- for beauty adds a charm to everything -- retained me spell-bound.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

And she rendered that simple old ballad that every child whistled or hummed when I was a child, with so many trills and bravuras, and I don't know what else in the vocal line, that I was lost in amazement.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

Her voice had the lilt of a mocking-bird and she executed variations, tremulos, spirited bravuras, extravaganzas of melody that would have won her encores on the stage.

War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

Continuing her bravuras and throwing a footstool across the room with a bang to increase the noise, she quickly gathered up the decanter and glasses used in their small banquet and pitched them out of the window - let us hope the crowns of her soldier guests escaped being cut or cracked.

War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals;

Walt Whitman 1900