Search results for "Pluck" - New World Encyclopedia
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- :From the eastern hedge, I pluck chrysanthemum flowers, ... :From the wet dew I pluck their blossoms, :Float them in this forgetful ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
- stove, now a gas or electric burner. The diners pluck their favorite morsels out of the boiling pot with chopsticks. The current style of eating out ...7 KB (1,137 words) - 21:42, 26 February 2023
- Carpe diem, usually translated as "seize the day" (literally, “pluck the day”), is an expression found in a Latin poem by Horace ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- The dominant hand is used to pluck the string using a metallic plectrum called the 'mezrab'. When playing sitar, the thumb of the ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- various teachings image 1 of 3. the disciples pluck ears of corn. Caspar Luyken.png|thumb|225px|The disciples pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath. Caspar ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- plectrum at a time when others were content to pluck the strings. ==Transmission and loss of Sappho's works== Although Sappho's work ...13 KB (2,038 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- play the instrument is to lay it flat on the lap and pluck or strum the strings with one hand, while fretting with the other. The dulcimer may also be ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- her trip was deemed, "a tribute to American pluck, American womanhood and American perseverance." "Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane" ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- the following ingredients: sheep's "pluck" (offal) (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, ...18 KB (2,829 words) - 16:42, 21 January 2024
- it connects with the surface board, then pluck. Afterwards, the musician ... is really "music." Some players pluck the string very lightly to ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- end of a psaltery, providing a mechanical means to pluck the strings. The type of instrument now usually called a harpsichord in English is generally ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- Vysotski used his fingers instead of a pick to pluck and strum, as was the tradition with Russian guitar playing. He used a variety of finger ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 20:49, 3 May 2023
- used feather quills (now plastic plectra) to pluck the strings. Strings in the violin category (violin, viola, cello, contrabass) are also plucked ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- Emus are around all the time, in green times and dry times. You pluck the feathers out first, then pull out the crop from the stomach, and put ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 16:32, 5 January 2021
- season! If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom. But thou art immortal and dost never fade, but ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- will remain calm and trained "pickers" pluck the loose molting feathers from the birds. The birds are then released unharmed back onto the farm. ...28 KB (4,283 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- it was common at this time for genteel women to pluck them out, since they were considered to be unsightly. Daniela Turudich and Laurie J. Welch ...32 KB (4,849 words) - 15:32, 25 May 2023
- a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- permit the harpist to reach past the outer row and pluck an inner string if a chromatic note is needed. ===Chromatic-strung harps=== ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- Cowell, who wrote pieces requiring performers to pluck the piano strings with their fingers and use metal slides. The Sonatas and Interludes of ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
