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...Jen rakonto kies heroo estasknabo, knabo pri kiu vi neniamantaue audis. Ankau estas knabinojen la rakonto, inkluzive de niamalnova amiko Doroteo, kaj kelkajel la rolantoj vagas tre for de laLando Oz antau ol ili ciuj kunvenasen la Smeralda Urbo por partoprenien la bankedo de Ozma. Efektive...

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...e C. McKeever 15 "Want to make sure all the hairs are in place before your audience. I understand." He winked as he handed Kelly the mirror and smiled... ...pointy-collared shirts, looked like refugees from a "Saturday Night Fever" audition. Everything else and everybody else looked more up-to-date and les... ... McKeever 162 Paganism, spiritual growth and psychology to diverse college audiences, throughout 1985. It was around this time when he'd stopped heari... ...ldn't be caught dead in." Tyler fisted the keys to his mother's late-model Audi. "Far from it. I'm just wondering if there's a missing hose clamp or s...

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...Casey, the caretaker’s black Lab, crossed the manicured lawn to greet a sleek Audi. Finally Gramps was home from one of his countless business trips...

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...that Pierce must have taken acting lessons. His flamboyant style in front of an audience was something to behold, academy award work. He impressed ... ...ntial contributors. Alana was seated next to the podium. The music stopped. The audience quieted in anticipation of the press conference. Alana ros... ...oducing the Director of Project Survival, Dr. Richard Hawk." As Hawk rose, the audience responded with kind applause. The two men shook hands and M... ...he earth, we are merely its caretakers, and we have not been taking care!" The audience and media sat silently, not even the usual tin­ kling of wat... ...eft?" Hawk stopped and paused for a moment, and then returned to his seat. The audience was stunned. Someone, in the crowd, began to clap, it slowl... ...d to the door. "Who is it?" "It's Richard, Sir. Richard Hawk." His voice barely audible. Matloch opened the door, "Ah, Richard." "I hope I'm not di... ...k's voice. Brent and Greene moved in the direction of the voice that was barely audi­ b e over the sound of branches scraping in the wind. "I can't ... ...and various CEOs from the private sector." Hacker paused and peered across the audience. "Before I call the first witness to tes­ tifY, are there an... ...cess and reconvene at 2:00 p.m. sharp." The Chairman rapped the gavel, and the audience erupted into an avalanche of chatter. "How do you like your...

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... heinous, bloody deed? TITUS ANDRONICUS : Magni Dominator poli, Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides ? MARCUS ANDRONICUS : O, calm thee, gent... ...ale; Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak. LUCIUS: Then, noble auditory, be it known to you, That cursed Chiron and Demetrius Were they ...

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...nappropriate splendour. I have just spoken of that morbid condition of the audi- tory nerve which rendered all music intolerable to the suf- ferer, wi...

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...rent and the perceptions quick, that he may be supplied with matter and an audience. The semi-barbarism of merely giddy communities, and feverish emot... ...oving with real animation. Prob- ably Justice Greedy would be comic to the audience of a country booth and to some of our friends. If we have lost our... ...isturbed. Thus, for want of instruction in the Comic idea, we lose a large audience among our cultivated middle class that we should expect to support... ...ike a tail, or preach from one character incessantly cocking an eye at the audi- ence, as in recent realistic French Plays: but is in the heart of his... ...and helps to solve the difficulties it creates. How, for example, shall an audi- ence be assured that an evident and monstrous dupe is actu- ally dece... ... would Pessimist and Optimist be? They would in any case have a diminished audience. Y et possibly the change of despots, from good-natured old obtuse... ...his criti- cisms, and bearing in mind the instruments he played on and the audience he had to win, there is an idea in his com- edies: it is the Idea ... ...to good fellowship and the benefit of the lungs. Aristophanes promises his auditors that if they will retain the ideas of the comic poet carefully, as... ...ature, as colour to our thoughts. The Misanthrope and the Tartuffe have no audible laughter; but the characters are steeped in the comic spirit. They ...

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...tion but a Nuisance? Then, as you very well know, you cannot do without an audience, and your audience is a Nuisance. You attract all the disreputable... ...tled manner, “you are a Nui- sance, and this kennel is a Nuisance, and the audi- ence that you cannot possibly dispense with is a Nui- sance, and the ...

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...er, I put it into English. Mr. Greene, who was seated on the sofa, groaned audi- bly, but said nothing. Sophonisba, who was sitting by him, beat upon ... ...tch she had when he married her.” These last words were so spoken as to be audible only by me, but her first exclamation was loud enough. Were they pe... ...then refolded my arms across my breast. “Papa,” said Sophonisba, in a very audible whisper, “Mr. Robinson went for you to Como. Indeed, I believe he s...

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...Excerpt: Ladies and gentlemen, it will be very difficult for an audience so large as this to hear distinctly what a speaker says, and consequently it is important that as profound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to kno...

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...SEPTEMBER 18, 1858. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:—It will be very difficult for an audience so large as this to hear distinctly what a speaker says, and conse... ...ccasions. Upon a subsequent occasion, Judge Trumbull spoke again before an audience at Alton, and upon that occasion not only repeated his charge agai... ...glas here, to tell him he was ready for the responsibility? I ask a candid audi- ence whether in doing thus Judge Douglas was not the assail- ant rath... ...lity, so far as it rests on me. Having done so I ask the attention of this audience to the question whether I have succeeded in sustaining the charge,... ..., had to invent that affirmation. And I will remind Judge Douglas and this audience that while Mr. Jefferson was the owner of slaves, as undoubtedly h... ...propounded it without some reflec- tion, and I wish now to address to this audience some remarks upon it. In the second clause of the sixth article, I... ...nd don’t dare to say forgery when it is false. Now I will say here to this audience and to Judge Douglas I have not dared to say he committed a forger... ...of a drama, perhaps I should say, to be enacted, not merely in the face of audiences like this, but in the face of the nation, and to some extent, by ... ...cted with dignity and in the good temper which would be befitting the vast audi- ences before which it was conducted. But when Judge Dou- glas got hom...

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...g rooms. Everything to eat and drink carefully supervised as to quality, and sold at an appointed price; re- spectable female attendants ready for the... ...t-stalls at a shilling, and a few private boxes at half-a-crown. My uncommercial curiosity induced me to go into every nook of this great place, and a... ...roof, with a careful reference to sight and sound in every corner; the result is, that its form is beauti- The Uncommercial Traveller 31 ful, and tha... ...rt of my subject, and still to render to the proprietor the credit that is strictly his due, I must add that his sense of the responsibility upon him ... ...sented the passengers in the thoroughfares, and so forth, had no con- ventionality in them, but were unusually like the real thing— from which I infer... ...ut they are not to be done as to anything in the streets. I noticed, also, that when two young men, dressed in exact imitation of the eel-and-sausage-... ...ov- ered with red baize, was the presiding minister. The kind of rostrum he occupied will be very well understood, if I liken it to a boarded-up firep... ...hich the congregation lis- tened with most exemplary attention and uninterrupted si- The Uncommercial Traveller 35 lence and decorum. My own attentio... ...o both in this recalling of the scene, exactly as it did at the time. ‘A very difficult thing,’ I thought, when the discourse be- gan, ‘to speak appro...

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...brought to an end. They seem incapable of that plain speaking to the world audience which alone can bring about a peace. They keep on with the tricks ... ...ness of computa- tion. Silly and dishonest men, appealing to still sillier audi- ences, have got themselves and their audiences into humor- ous muddle...

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...e have rarely heard anything with which we have been more pleased. And the audience after hearing the extracts read, and comparing their conservative ... ...st stick to the courts awhile. I read a sort of lecture to three different audiences during the last month and this; but I did so under circumstances ... .... LINCOLN. 32 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO THE GOVERNOR, AUDITOR, AND TREA- SURER OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. GENTLEMEN: In reply to y... ...cease; this would be no doubt most ad- vantageous to the State. But if the Auditor will not consent to this, then, 2nd. Cut off of each bond all the c... ...OHIO: I cannot fail to remember that I appear for the first time before an audi- ence in this now great State,—an audience that is accustomed to hear ... ...tal. And now, without indorsing anything else he has said, I will ask this audi- ence to give three cheers for Hickman. [The audience re- sponded with... ... living being anywhere. I have been unable at any time to find a man in an audience who would 61 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five declare t... ...,—many, many years ago,— I believe more than thirty years, when he told an audience that if they would repress all tendencies to liberty and ultimate ... ... of Ohio: This is the first time in my life that I have appeared before an audience in so great a city as this: I therefore—though I am no longer a yo...

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...ring down upon them; and then, clasping his secretary by the arm, uttered an audible groan in an guish of spirit. It is a melancholy fact that Mr. Tw... ...antomime is to us, a mirror of life; nay, more, we maintain that it is so to audiences generally, although they are not aware of it, and that this ver... ...joyous and oily manner in which he rubs his stomach, by way of informing the audience that he is going home to dinner. In the fulness of his heart, in... ...e, the elderly gentleman suddenly loses his foot ing, and stumbles. How the audience roar! He is set upon by a noisy and officious crowd, who buffet ... ...ed the impudence of the swindler, the greater the rapture and ecstasy of the audi ence. Now it is a most remarkable fact that precisely this sort of ... ...ave known bears of undoubted ability who, when the expecta tions of a large audience have been wound up to the utmost pitch, have peremptorily refuse... ... of a ten line paragraph, could not possibly have so affected the narrator’s auditory. Si lence, the purest and most noble of all kinds of applause, ...

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...eeves, she began to sing, not in the pitch that won her the applause of an audience at the Fenice, but in a warble tender with emotion. Her song was a... ...while Genovese had a hint or two warning him of the hostile feeling of the audience. During this scene, highly amusing to a Frenchman, while la Tinti ... ...la voce as it will never be sung again. The enthusiasm was tremendous; the audi- ence forgot their indignation and rage in pleasure that was really ac... ...horus was in the opinion of the house, listened with devout attention. The audience, with one accord, shouted for its repetition. “I feel as if I were... ...ow, am I a bad singer?” he exclaimed, as he ended. 70 Massimilla Doni His audience only regretted that the instrument was not a thing of Heaven. This...

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... there surged into the room a hoarse confused cry, in which the only clearly audible words were “Less—bread—More—taxes!” The old man laughed heart il... ...said with some hesi tation. “You see, he always stands with his back to the audi ence. It does very well for reciting; but for lecturing—” “You are ... ...; and, as we drew nearer, the words of his song became more and more plainly audible:— “He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round th... ... King—were waiting in grim si lence: in fact the only voices at all plainly audible were those of two little dogs, who had mounted a settee, and were... ...—that the singer herself should say the right thing, and not leave it to the audience. Suppose a young lady has just been warbling (‘with a grating an... ...st carefully rehearsed! How naturally they do it! With never a glance at the audience! And every grouping is quite fresh, you see. No repetition!” It ... ...cross by the bridge!” for the distant thud, thud, of the Express was already audible. Suddenly a look of horror came over her face. “Oh, he’s fallen d... ...ing away with a sigh. “And it’s time to get the Theatre ready.” “Who are the audience to be?” “Only but Frogs,” said Bruno. “But they haven’t comed ye... ...We never do more than three,” Sylvie explained in a whisper), Bruno gave the audi ence quite a long series of somersaults before he finally re tired...

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...ms with an explanation, to render them more obvious to the capacity of the audience, so that his wisdom became a sort of commentary on the buffoon’s f... ...eaven and earth! 192 The Talisman that you should have admitted him to an audience by night, in the very tent of our royal consort!—and dare to offer... ...his belle amie been an abbess.” As he spoke, the Archbishop of Tyre craved audience, for the purpose of requesting Richard’s attendance, should his he... ...ars, and sometimes, what it was far more difficult to extract from such an audi- ence, a tribute of smiles, and even laughter. During the recitation, ... ...ed the thread of his narrative; but it was no longer to the same attentive audience. A horseman, who had ascended some high ground on the right hand o... ...d advance or retreat, they were to augur good or evil. Hassan, finding his audi- ence inattentive, or being himself attracted by the dubious appearanc... ... the tent of our royal consort, and say it is our pleasure that he have an audi- ence—a private audience—of our cousin Edith. He is charged with a com... ...laid before him. About the time that the Lord of Gilsland had finished his audience, a messenger announced that the Queen and her attendants were appr...

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...of an ampitheatre, the tree-tops rising from each tier like persons in the audi- ence. This fine landscape was then on the other side of her park, tho... ...inner at the chateau, Farrabesche requested Madame Graslin to grant him an audi- ence for a few moments. “Madame,” he said, presenting himself with Ca... ...y case, have drowned her voice. At this moment and before all else in that audience, two persons presented, to an observer, a powerfully affecting sig... ...nied with moans and tears. The confession of that grand woman had not been audible beyond the threshold of the salon, and none but loving ears had hea...

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...without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who are loud i... ...urn, and by this time, perhaps, se- riously uneasy at her delay, the least audible whisper from herself would in a moment bring one of them to the doo... ...in its ordinary way for the absence of its mother; and such a cry, even if audible at all out of the house, must have been precisely what the neighbor... ...the breathing of the young man, which to himself at times became fearfully audible. As the murderer stood once more over the body of Mrs. Williamson, ... ...impossibility of even whispering any ex- planation, would cause her to cry audibly; and the inevi- table indiscretion of one would be fatal to the two... ... of the missionary; secondly, by vitiating the spiritual atmosphere of his audi- ence—that is, corrupting and misdirecting the character of their thou... ... and spiritual religion, had in a mo- ment untuned the spirituality of his audience. He would find that he had awakened within them the passion of cur... ...don, possessing materials, in that field of art, for the composition of an audience large enough to act as a court of revision. It would be presumptio... ...h to act as a court of revision. It would be presumption in the provincial audi- ence, so slightly trained to good music and dancing, if it should aff...

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...ven terrible; for the last rumblings of the bass sent a shiver through the audi- ence that raised the hair on their heads; the nun shook out her veili...