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little and secco
He was able to apply himself to the composition of cantata and oratorio ; at that time there was little difference ( apart from increasing length ) between cantata, oratorio and opera, which are all based on the alternation of secco recitative and aria da capo.

little and came
The weather turned warmer and with it came better appetites, although Harriet was still a little off-color.
A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.
He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.
The snow came a little faster now, he noted.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.
He recalled Lucy, as `` a bright-looking black-eyed young lady who came regularly through the boys' study hall to join the class in Greek in the little recitation room beyond ''.
As long as audiences came to see the movement, there seemed little reason to adventure further.
Now a little flush came on her pale homely face and enchantment in her eyes.
Then, without knowing why, she found herself running from them, fleeing wildly through the trees, dodging her own shadows until she came to a little hollow in the rocky ground with a big stone in the center behind which she knelt and hid, listening to the madness of her heart and wanting for once to cry.
The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.
The Ionic order came from eastern Greece, where its origins are entwined with the similar but little known Aeolic order.
This came to be known as Tenebrism, the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value.
A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.
With the New Latin period, the language itself came to be regarded as a medium only for " serious " and learned expression, a view that left little room for Latin poetry.
However, these early events received little attention, and it was not until 1957, when the New York Times reported an unsuccessful struggle to restrict DDT use in Nassau County, New York, that the issue came to the attention of the popular naturalist-author, Rachel Carson.
One critic states of psychologists that " Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose ', they used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions ... the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a ' reassurance fetish ' ( Koch 1992 ) for mainstream methodological practice.
The term, which means ' little epic ', came into use in the nineteenth century.
When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.
Some of the horror came from the nature of the crimes shown, which often had very little reason behind them and in which the evildoers were rarely punished or defeated.
F. C. Burnand wrote that he " was one of the most naturally comic little men I ever came across.
Joseph Wells managed to earn a meagre income, but little of it came from the shop ; Joseph received an unsteady amount of money from playing professional cricket for the Kent county team.
We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).
Once this came about the expansion of the town took place, to the west, since there was little space left in the valley.

little and off
All sizes: big ones, some wired to set off a whole field, little ones, hand grenade size.
A little extra work here will pay off with a smooth, snug-fitting machine when you are finished.
I have never seen Caper off his feet -- he seems to know nothing but ' trot ' and keeps trying a little harder if asked to do so.
By lifting the seat upwards a little, the weight is taken off the neck and the back is kept rounded.
With greater precision he again paced off a location, this time a little more to the left.
Seizin' the bull by the tail, he rushed his hoss forward and a little to one side, throwin' the bull off balance, and `` bustin' '' 'im with terrific force.
She gave a little pout and said, `` I don't get off work until eleven o'clock.
His mother, who had seen little of him for four years, appeared worried about his sailing off by himself for an Orient which, she herself having slight knowledge of it, had to be distrusted.
Any little dose of radiation might knock off these critters ''.
He knew little about the technical details of the space program, and was put off by the massive financial commitment required by a manned Moon landing.
In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).
Although his home has been traditionally identified as one of the Aeolian Islands ( there is little consensus as to which ), near Sicily, an alternative location has been suggested at Gramvousa off the northwest coast of Crete.
His forces met little resistance, burning numerous towns to the ground and living off the land, until they reached the Loire River at Tours.
Also in 1839, the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in two volumes, though he made little money off of it and it received mixed reviews.
* Because the device is never shut off completely there is no " turn on " time, little problem with charge storage, and generally better high frequency performance and feedback loop stability ( and usually fewer high-order harmonics ).
All lip-synch is a little off, of course, but this movie seems to be going for condescending laughs from knowledgable filmgoers.
Sometimes, corresponding telic and atelic forms have as little to do with each other semantically as " take " has with " take off ".
* Samuel B. Sternwheeler: Gordie Tapp in a spoof of author Mark Twain giving off some homilies which undoubtedly made little or no sense whatsoever.
The inheritance of acquired traits was shown to have little basis in the 1880s when August Weismann cut the tails off many generations of mice and found that their offspring continued to develop tails.
Cocteau acknowledged in the introduction to the script that the play was motivated, in part, by complaints from his actresses that his works were too writer / director-dominated and gave the players little opportunity to show off their full range of talents.
Both she and Fairbanks had little time off from producing and acting in their films.
The series depicted very little of the past described by Edison, though he did meet a female televangelist ( whom he once dated when his reporting put him at odds with the Vu Age Church that she now headed ) and a former colleague / rival who later died ( and whose death sent Edison off on close to a rampage to avenge that death ).
In the 1950s, as a consequence of the 1948 Supreme Court verdict, the studio saw little value in its library, and decided to sell off its back catalog.
She may appear as a mystical divinity with a scepter and a little box, but she was mostly represented in the act of being carried off by Hades.

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