At first, he savored only the material quality of the sounds secreted by the instruments. And it had already been a great pleasure... when, beneath the tiny line of the violin, slender, resistant, dense and driving, he noticed the mass of the piano's part seeking to arise in a liquid splashing, polymorphous, undivided, level and clashing like the purple commotion of wave charmed and flattened by the moonlight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most adults will do anything to avoid going to a party where they don't know anyone. But for some reason we may be impatient with ...the young child who hesitates on the first day of school, or who recoils from the commotion of a birthday party where there are no familiar faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in suc...cession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votes... as they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »