At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Could it be that my own eyes and ears had deceived me??

Common sayings such as " the harmony of the spheres " and " it is music to my ears " point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to.

Christine is quoted in The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits as saying of her solo album, " Maybe it isn't the most adventurous album in the world, but I wanted to be honest and please my own ears with it.

Later, after a private audience with Mussolini, he added, " Unless my ears deceive me, the voice of Rome is the voice of Il Duce.

' I cannot find words to convey to the reader the pain I felt in seeing those dear children taught to utter such words to amuse ears grown callous to their ghastly meaning .... How Mr. Gilbert could have stooped to write, or Sir Arthur Sullivan could have prostituted his noble art to set to music, such vile trash, it passes my skill to understand ".

I would walk and hitch and sail away from this dark city to the bright spaces of the wet west coast, and there throw myself into the tall, glittering seas beyond Iona ( with its cargo of mouldering kings ) to let the gulls and seals and tides have their way with my remains, and in my dying moments look forward to an encounter with Staffa ’ s six-sided columns and Fingal ’ s cave ; or I might head south to Corryvrecken, to be spun inside the whirlpool and listen with my waterlogged deaf ears to its mile-wide voice ringing over the wave-race ; or be borne north, to where the white sands sing and coral hides, pink-fingered and hard-soft, beneath the ocean swell, and the rampart cliffs climb thousand-foot above the seething acres of milky foam, rainbow-buttressed.

: I covered my ears with my hands,

:" 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “ Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven .” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner, 16 saying, “ A hand upon the throne of the Lord Jacob!

I couldn't believe my ears.

When Charles enters a nightclub he remarks, " Are my ears deceiving me or is that Art Tatum?

Even from my room the sound was so painful I went into my bathroom and put my hands on my ears ".

I heard with my own ears how Göring broke into the conversation and shouted: ' The only one who really knows about the Reichstag building is I, for I set fire to it.

" Your cries ", he said, " have for a long time hurt my ears, and I finally found the means to save you, even at the expense of my own life ".

In a letter to the Neue teutsche Merkur, one audience member wrote: " Already three days have passed since that happy evening, and it still sounds in my ears and heart, and my breast is constricted by many emotions even thinking of it.

In 1969, she sang Elena in Rossini's La donna del lago at the Camden Festival ; and also was offered the role of the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro after an audition of which the conductor, Colin Davis, said, " I couldn't believe my ears.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.

Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

I would have stood there and died there if left to myself, but Cousin Simmons grabbed my arm in his viselike grip and fairly plucked me out of there ; ;

-- Henry said that he'd take my arm and get me right there.

That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.

I got off there, crossed the street, walked ahead with St. Sophia on my left, the Blue Mosque on my right, and in a moment came to the entrance of St. Sophia.

In my view, there should be a school which offers significant vocational programs for boys within easy reach of every family in a city.

I sat there with the faint odor of charcoal-broiled steaks tantalizing my nostrils and occasionally catching the aroma of coffee.

Although there was no doubt in my mind and we've been handling it as one I'm glad to have it made official ''.

`` I never knew there were such neighbors and friends around me and my family.

Hayes said that if a way can be found to deal effectively with short-term capital movements between nations, `` there is no reason, in my judgment why the international financial system cannot work satisfactorily for at least the foreseeable future ''.

and I asked myself a question: Suppose I had the same number of peas as there are atoms in my body, how large an area would they cover??

Sat there and as a woman sang, she kept getting thinner and thinner, right before my eyes, and the eyes of some 5,500 other people.

I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

The reporters were questioning the Interior man and the French officer, both of whom remained noncommittal as to what action, if any, would be taken in my regard.

They have remained on the opened page of my mind in all the years which since have passed.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

That battle scene, ridiculous as it was, remained in my mind.

However, despite aligning with the Maoists, Sartre said after the May events: " If one rereads all my books, one will realize that I have not changed profoundly, and that I have always remained an anarchist.

Glyndŵr has remained a notable figure in the popular culture of both Wales and England, portrayed in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 ( anglicised as Owen Glendower ) as a wild and exotic man ruled by magic and emotion (" at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.

Steiner later related, " Nietzsche's ideas of the ' eternal recurrence ' and of ' Übermensch ' remained long in my mind.

And I had sort of lagged behind my confederates, that I … remained in the writing seat.

When at his Last Supper, Jesus said: " This is my body ", what he held in his hands still had all the appearances of bread: these " accidents " remained unchanged.

The work remained popular, becoming the most frequently printed work of the 18th century, and being arranged by a number of other composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, who used it as the basis for his cantata Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden ( Root out my sins, Highest One ), BWV 1083.

Even so, tensions remained: William remained very suspicious of Louis, thinking the French king desired " Universal Kingship " over Europe ; Louis described William as " my mortal enemy " and saw him as an obnoxious warmonger.

And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

Another of her favourite books was Thomas Carlyle's three-volume treatise The French Revolution: A History ; she later said the work " remained all my life a source of inspiration.

And later, throughout my entire life, Basanavičius's collected folklore remained extraordinarily important for me.

The only house that remained constant was the one where my maternal grandparents lived in a suburb of Pittsburgh called East Liberty … Apart from that one house on Woodland Road, home was not a place to me when I was a child.

" To this day, you ’ ve remained one of my best angels, and not just mine, but all of ours who, week after week, trust that our nicked and ragged selves, however hard we try to press them, will somehow serve to bring God ’ s truth to life.

I crashed in a plane, I really damaged my brain / And then I layed in my bed with all this music in my head ./ The years have rolled by, I've watched the past die / But feelings remained like mercy much strained ./ Like a seed left unsown, like a leaf that was blown / Like a man who was blind, there was a lock on my mind ", but also his 1991 healing: " Then a man came to me and he held out the key / And the lock hinge was blown, I had never been alone ".

The opening soprano solo in E major, " I know that my Redeemer liveth " is one of the few numbers in the oratorio that has remained unrevised from its original form.

" I have remained a soldier ", he says in his memoirs, " and I can conscientiously say that I have not only served one government after another loyally, but, when they fell, have regretted all of them with the single exception of my own.