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And they say, that the physician bids his disciple to cut and cauterize, omitting to add these words, “seasonably and moderately”; and the musician commands his scholar to play on the harp and sing, omitting “tunably” and

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Where the sharpe accent falles more tunably vpon [graunt] [peace] [long] [dure] then it would by conuersion, as to accent then thus:

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

This ornament then is of two sortes, one to satisfie & delight th'eare onely by a goodly outward shew fet vpon the matter with wordes, and speaches smothly and tunably running: another by certaine intendments or sence of such wordes & speeches inwardly working a stirre to the mynde: that first qualitie the Greeks called _Enargia_, of this word _argos_, because it geueth a glorious lustre and light.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

But this is the way of the world, that when a man or woman sings more tunably than his fellows, those about the fire fall upon him, pell-mell, for reason of their envy.

French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France

Grecian flute, as in the lay of the strife of Apollo and Marsyas, comes more tunably in the echo of Mr. Arnold's song, that beautiful song in

Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878

Then she laughed, and her laughter was as silver bells rung tunably, and she said: "But where is the cup for the drinking?"

The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

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 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

He played the old Irish air so simply and tunably that Rolfe leaned back in his chair, with half closed eyes, in soft voluptuous ecstasy.

A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Charles Reade 1849

They can sing anything, most tunably, sir, but psalms.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843