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minstrel
1. 15 But now bring me a minstrel; and it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came on him
2. Edgar was a cute dark eyed, black haired, skinny kid who seduced Alwyn, made a good ASM, took bit parts and eventually became partner in business as well as bed; Alwyn's irritating and unfaithful wife having long since eloped with another wandering minstrel
3. "Die, tyrant!" screamed the mad minstrel, hurling himself headlong on the king
4. At a discordant box of a piano a negro performer was playing with a keen appreciation of time if of nothing else, and two others with voices that might not have been unpopular in a decent minstrel show were rendering a popular air
5. Not find one honest minstrel who sang the truth ever gained fame, or was ever remembered, and glorified, and recorded to have lived
6. He was, in truth, a minstrel of the western continent—of a much later day, certainly, than those gifted bards, who formerly sang the profane renown of baron and prince, but after the spirit of his own age and country; and he was now prepared to exercise the cunning of his craft, in celebration of, or rather in thanksgiving for, the recent victory
7. Never minstrel, or by whatever more suitable name David should be known, drew upon his talents in the presence of more insensible auditors; though considering the singleness and sincerity of his motive, it is probable that no bard of profane song ever uttered notes that ascended so near to that throne where all homage and praise is due
8. Lay of the last minstrel he thought it was
9. Here, it is true, were none of the applicances which popular merriment would so readily have found in the England of Elizabeth's time, or that of James;—no rude shows of a theatrical kind; no minstrel, with his harp and legendary ballad, nor gleeman, with an ape dancing to his music; no juggler, with his tricks of mimic witchcraft; no Merry Andrew, to stir up the multitude with jests, perhaps hundreds of years old, but still effective, by their appeals to the very broadest sources of mirthful sympathy
10. Everyone knew that a minstrel show had been on the BBC for years
11. The Black and White Minstrel Show had run from 1958 to just a couple of months earlier
12. and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all
13. Then a minstrel and loremaster stood up and named all the names of the
14. ‘It’s about a wandering minstrel, Nanky-Pu, who falls in love with an unsuitable girl called Yum-Yum and afoul of the tyrannical emperor
15. One afternoon,—it was on one of those early days in April, already warm and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,—Marius said to Cosette:—"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden in the Rue Plumet
16. “Then again,” he said, “as a minstrel, an Ayrishmuhn, and a Traveler, what’s more natural to me than skulking down alleys?”
17. Not to mention what such reminiscences might be worth to a professional minstrel, cast into song
18. He ate with appetite, as befit a minstrel who never knew when he’d get the chance again
19. Pretend there is a minstrel gallery up there in the corner
20. At Norfolk, elevated thirteen hundred and sixty feet above the level of the sea, we encountered the opposition of a minstrel troupe, which paraded the town with a brass band just about the time our meeting was to commence
21. " Lay of the Last Minstrel, 25
