1 Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER IV 2 Dunyasha ran up and down like one possessed, and was continually slamming doors; while Piotr was, at three o'clock in the morning, still attempting to strum a Cossack waltz on the guitar.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XXII 3 Anisya, go and see if the strings of my guitar are all right.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII 4 Anisya Fedorovna, with her light step, willingly went to fulfill her errand and brought back the guitar.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII 5 Without looking at anyone, "Uncle" blew the dust off it and, tapping the case with his bony fingers, tuned the guitar and settled himself in his armchair.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII 6 She resolved to give up learning the harp and to play only the guitar.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII 7 She asked "Uncle" for his guitar and at once found the chords of the song.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII 8 What she drew from the guitar would have had no meaning for other listeners, but in her imagination a whole series of reminiscences arose from those sounds.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX 9 She rose, put down the guitar, and went to the drawing room.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX 10 When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first declined it.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) ShelleyGet Context In Chapter 13 11 When his children had departed, he took up his guitar and played several mournful but sweet airs, more sweet and mournful than I had ever heard him play before.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) ShelleyGet Context In Chapter 15 12 He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER TWO 13 I felt that the conditions were a good deal like those of an old coloured man, during the days of slavery, who wanted to learn how to play on the guitar.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter VI. 14 Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER II. 15 Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and guitars disguised as wash-boards.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XIX