"Solo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... alone, and saying "let us sing to the praise and glory of God by singin' the fust four vusses of the 100th psalm, old vusshun';" and he put on his spectacles and read and sung each verse, frequently as a solo accompanying himself on a bass-viol, said to have been made by himself! At W—— old V—— set the tune with a cracked flute, and on one occasion, when reading the 26th verse of the grand 104th Psalm, he said:—"There goes the Ships, and there is ...
— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston
... hymns, he read collects, he made a short address, and still the undertaker at the door shook his head. At last he gave out a hymn that was not very well known, and found that the organist had left his post, whereupon he sang it alone, as an unsustained solo. ...
— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson
... "Do sing a solo, Miss Hazlit," said the Scottish maiden. "I like your voice so much, and want to hear ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
... d'un Solo, Figli tutti d'un solo riscatto, In qual'ora, in qual parte del suolo Trascorriamo quest' aura vital, Siam fratelli, siam stretti ad un patto: Maladetto colui che lo infrange, Che s'innalza sul finoco che piange Che contrista uno spirto immortal." ...
— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... half-embarrassed "Amens," and more than one hitherto unsuspected cold required considerable attention. All the way to breakfast Phil held embarrassed court, while his hand was shaken and his shoulder was thumped and he was told, solo and chorus, by all who could get near him, that "He's all right!"—"Who's ...
— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt
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