"Quintette" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... music is blamed, is it not in this charming movement in which each person expresses joy? The enslaved people are delivered, and yet a passion in peril is fain to moan. Pharaoh's son loves a Hebrew woman, and she must leave him. What gives its ravishing charm to this quintette is the return to the homelier feelings of life after the grandiose picture of two stupendous and national emotions:—general misery, general joy, expressed with the magic force stamped on them by divine vengeance ...
— Massimilla Doni • Honore de Balzac
... consideration of circumstances; but, as soon as she could disengage herself, her arms were entwined round my neck, while Celeste was hanging on her father's. Having disposed of the ladies, the gentlemen now shook hands, and though we had not all appetites to finish our breakfasts, never was there a happier quintette. ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat
... and Bert sat gloomily, moodily, on their bronchos and watched Thunderbolt lead the quintette of running horses. ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman
... a quintette for clarionet and strings. The first movement was a poem of youthful hope and desire; the last a lover's joke, in which Jean-Christophe's wild humor peeped out. But the whole work was written for the sake of the second movement, the larghetto, in which Jean-Christophe ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... dream I've ever had." Evidently he did not believe that it was a dream. He sat up and listened; the others listened, too. There was no sound in the soft, still night, however. They talked for a little while, a strangely subdued quintette. It was as though they were all trying to comment on these experiences ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore |
