The "thing," to Hamlet

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Sophie went to the piano, played with feeling, and then sang some Italian airs, to the accompaniment of the guitar, too well for her age.

The spirit of a world-famed violinist played as though behind veils a romance by Rubinstein, to a piano accompaniment that sounded thin and cold, like a spinet.

She got to play for the Blackville Society Tap Twizzlers when their own accompanist was arrested in Glace Bay.

The half-dozen executives and accountants from Andersen and Enron laughed and joked as they played a round of golf on a private Arizona course.

Ping Slatterly thought of that fact with relish as he ignited the strong acetylene torch which was to play so important a part in this raid.

In order to entice her more easily to follow my advice, I added that I was well aware of my plan being a very difficult one to carry out, and that to play successfully such a character a woman must be particularly witty.

Muggledrone played allegretto, Trumtwang allegro, Whistlerap presto, and Scrapesqueak prestissimo.

I took her to London on her eighteenth birthday to see a play at Drury Lane she fell prey to the allure of the theatre.

I myself can barely look back on those twenty years of amatory servility with a full comprehension of the part I have been playing in them.

It played the same tune as Ambry had on his pipes, adding verses that answered their questions without words and thus were incomprehensible.

Rae told him about her oxytocin theory and the role she suspected the Hillstar ambulance drivers played.

People at work played out a slightly amplified normality for my benefit.

Winthrop was only beginning to understand, picked up the emotional sequence as a sort of Empathy track surrounding the product and when the tape was played through the telethesia projector, the result was analogous to a posthypnotic suggestion to purchase the product.

Stirred by towers that poke above the host of city lightintense white carbide lamps, smoke-burnished red of lit grease, tallow twinkling, frenetic sputtering gas flare, all anarchic guards against the darkthe winds rejoice and play.

An announcer, his voice as stiff as his undoubted shirt, broke into the playing and announced a special news bulletin.