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Usage examples of smetana.

The present proprietor of Green Mountain was a little man named Caspar Smetana, blessed with a graying mustache, determination, and the confident belief that life was an adventure.

Thirty feet away Daisy Smetana drove nails with even greater determination, though with rather less precision, the sound of her hammer turned into a clatter by the echoing hillside.

Caspar Smetana bringing drinks out to the shade of the porch heard hammering with mandolin accompaniment.

They were waiting on the porch, Smetana in his rocker as though he had never left it, gray sweater over his shoulders, when Ralph and John and Fillmore came trudging up the hill.

When the three were busy with their desserts, Smetana took Daisy aside.

He looked at Smetana, talking to Villiers, and then his eye was caught by two well-dressed but disheveled strangers coming up the path.

Sword, bicycle, mandolin fragments, Guillaume, Finch, Smetana, Ralph, the audience, Kuukkinen, Claude the Plonk, Dreznik, Fred, Gillian.

When they were done, they lay with her hair smothering his face, Smetana still playing, the clock ticking, the phoney fire guttering.

They were learning how to order in restaurants and how to buy concert tickets and which seats to request and which to refuse with contempt at Smetana Hall.

After a short education at the Prague university Smetana entered diligently upon the study of music, becoming a brilliant pianist, and as such forming one of the circle of enthusiastic and advancing souls surrounding Liszt at Weimar, between 1850 and 1860.

She wonders if her neighbors would recognize any of the names attached to the music she loves: names like Vivaldi, Smetana, Bach.

Knowing no other musical gods but Smetana, nor other laws than the Smetanesque, the national ideologues were irritated by his otherness.

Professor Nejedly, who late in his life, in 1948, became minister and omnipotent ruler of culture in Stalinized Czechoslovakia, took with him into his bellicose senility only two great passions: Smetana worship and Janacek vilification.

Brod wanted to prove that Janacek belonged to the national tradition and that he was every bit as good as the great Smetana, idol of the Czech national ideology.

I want to sit down by myself with a big bowl of popcorn, I want to watch closed-captioned TV, I want to clap the Koss headsets around my ears and feel the vibrations of Beethoven and Smetana and Gordon Bok.