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.
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.
3 I'm to be a famous musician myself, and all creation is to rush to hear me.
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.
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 HardyContext Highlight 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 DoyleContext Highlight 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.
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 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS