"Singer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there wi' superior air For the singer wha daur decry When they saw the sheen o' the makar's een, An' his han' on his axe forbye? But the nicht grew auld an' he never devaul'd While ane by ane they would slink, Awa' at a rin to their beds o' skin Frae ...
— The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots • David Rorie
... so, despite their bourgeois bearing, their modest costumes and their expressionless shop-girl smiles, all those women, made up their little mouths to be caught by the hook of sentiment, and cast languishing glances upon the singer. It was truly comical to see that glance at the platform suddenly change and become contemptuous and fierce as it fell upon the husband, the poor husband tranquilly drinking a glass of beer opposite his wife: "You would never be capable of doing sentry duty in the very teeth ...
— Fromont and Risler, Complete • Alphonse Daudet
... identity of the singer, no mistaking those deep, full notes, vibrant, rounded, and so melodious. To whom was she singing? Could a woman sing like that, sing as Miss Howland sang, to no one? Impersonally? Dan turned his face down at the group. The women were muffled in greatcoats, for the ...
— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry
... that I care less about, and upon which I am entitled, from his published works, to appeal to your correspondent, MR. S. W. SINGER. It is a mere trifle, but upon a curious point—the history of playing cards, which may, however, attract more attention than topics that relate only to such insignificant men as Thomas ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 • Various
... little chorus singer is here to offer that?" said the bishop, insolently turning his great rubicund face ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
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