"Metronome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two Turks who are not asleep either.... I grope my way up the stairs to the captain's bridge.... A warm but violent and unpleasant wind tries to blow away my cap.... The steamer rocks. The mast in front of the captain's bridge sways regularly and leisurely like a metronome; I try to look away from it, but my eyes will not obey me and, just like my stomach, insist on following moving objects.... The sky and the sea are dark, the shore is not in sight, the deck looks a dark blur ... there is not ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov
... you were always so merry. God be thanked! How refreshing to find one woman with a heart, and that her husband's. Here the women have a metronome under their corsets, which beats time, but not music. Himmel! What a whiff of my youth you bring me! Does the sea still roll green at the end of Boulogue pier, and do the sea-gulls fly? while I lie here, a Parisian Prometheus, chained ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... tells the mighty worth Of a little baby's quiet breath— A soft, unceasing metronome, Patient and faithful ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various |
