1 I am not sure, but I think it was because his son, Laurie's father, married an Italian lady, a musician, which displeased the old man, who is very proud.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FIVE 2 Laurie comes naturally by his love of music, for he is like his mother, and I dare say his grandfather fears that he may want to be a musician.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FIVE 3 I'm to be a famous musician myself, and all creation is to rush to hear me.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTEEN 4 Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer.
5 I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fastidious judgment, no musician, either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV 6 She isn't a musician, and I'm not a painter.
7 She knew it was useless to ask Madame Ratignolle, who was on the most distant terms with the musician, and preferred to know nothing concerning her.
8 The little musician laughed all over when she saw Edna.
9 He clasped his hands behind his head, and looking up at the ceiling began to hum a little, trying his voice like a musician tuning an instrument.
10 It happened sometimes when Edna went to see Mademoiselle Reisz that the little musician was absent, giving a lesson or making some small necessary household purchase.
11 My father came to be a military musician there from abroad.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 12 My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 13 Incidentally he gave me to understand that Kurtz had been essentially a great musician.
14 He was an excellent musician, however, as well, and played both the violin and the piano better than most amateurs.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar WildeGet Context In CHAPTER 14 15 He was a miserable scamp, a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS