1 The music was a reminiscence of tom-toms heard at circus fortune-telling tents or at the Minnesota State Fair, but the whole company pounded and puffed and whined in a sing-song, and looked rapturous.
2 Its instability startled me extremely, and I had a queer reminiscence of the childish days when I used to be forbidden to meddle.
3 She turned as if to appeal to the good sense of the others against a refractory child while Aunt Julia gazed in front of her, a vague smile of reminiscence playing on her face.
4 The strains of the polonaise, which had continued for a considerable time, had begun to sound like a sad reminiscence to Natasha's ears.
5 With that he fell to recalling certain reminiscences.
6 Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
7 I have hundreds of such reminiscences; but at times some one stands out from the hundred and oppresses me.
8 He was evidently uncomfortable at these reminiscences, and was, I fancy, always afraid that I might take up the same tone again.
9 The little princess, plump and rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases.
10 Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these merry reminiscences.
11 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.
12 Sonya, as always, did not quite keep pace with them, though they shared the same reminiscences.
13 And he went on to inquiries about the Grand Duke and the state of his health, and to reminiscences of the gay and amusing times he had spent with him in Naples.
14 They spoke of personal reminiscences, of amusing scenes they had witnessed during the campaign, and avoided all talk of their present situation.
15 In the evening I used to go back to the prison, and walk up and down the parade with Mr. Micawber; or play casino with Mrs. Micawber, and hear reminiscences of her papa and mama.
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