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• What was the origin of the Suite? (3)
• What was the origin of Recitative? (3)
• What was the origin of our Clef signs? (3)
• Tell about the origin of Opéra Comique. (3)
• Look back at the origin of human States. (8)
• What is the origin of the word Madrigal? (3)
• What was the origin of these instruments? (3)
• You wished once to inform her of your origin. (10)
• Give several theories as to the origin of music. (3)
• What is the origin of the flat and natural signs? (3)
• Did the young lady know his origin, and scorn him? (10)
• This class of instruments is of very ancient origin. (3)
• Like that of Smith his origin is wrapped in obscurity. (7)
• This time she could track it definitely to its origin. (10)
• He must know the origin of the Cogglesbys, or something. (10)
• Percussion instruments of metal are of very ancient origin. (3)
• The President had been, consciously or not, uncivil, but one knew his origin! (10)
• Rimbault.—The Pianoforte: Its Origin, Progress and Construction. (3)
• This octave (A to A) is also the origin of our natural minor scale. (3)
• Why, clearly, wealth was the sole origin and agent of the mischief. (10)
• Inspired of solitariness and gigantic size, it claims divine origin. (10)
• You think that you have quite conquered the dreadfulness of our origin. (10)
• And well might she be amazed to hear the origin of their recent dispute. (10)
• Historians ascribe the origin of Melody to this principle of vocal expression. (3)
• The Madrigal undoubtedly owes its origin to the composers of the Flemish school. (3)
• The pain of the thought of relinquishing it was the origin of this foolishness. (10)
• A devilish malignity bequeathed them: let them go back to their infernal origin. (10)
• The popular melodies trace their origin back to pagan times, and show infinite variety. (3)
• That was the origin of the alliance between the young statesman and a newspaper editor. (10)
• A flying sweetness, more poignant than anything on earth, more dark in origin and destiny. (8)
• And he would dwell on the origin of species, and debate whether she might be Danish or Celtic. (8)
• The mixed origin of the singular issue could not be examined, where all was increasingly funny. (10)
• They are there in vigorous growth and full flower, and believed to be of purely Tamtonian origin. (7)
• A local legend attributes the origin of these flies to the body of the dragon killed by St. George. (20)
• She was in her origin, short of slaughter, the loudest expression of the little civilization of men. (10)
• It was, indeed, a critical and dubious look, such as he might have bent on a folio of doubtful origin. (8)
• The style in which this young man lives is most unusual, in view of his origin and notorious poverty. (12)
• It is impossible within these limits to give a full history of the strange delusion whose origin I have related. (7)
• Let us put an end to so many calamities; you and ourselves have the same origin, the same language, the same laws. (18)
• They could not have been written in quite so many places as times, but they enjoyed a comparable variety of origin. (9)
• Quite apart from the subject inscribed on them, Weyburn had now and again a blow at the breast, of untraceable origin. (10)
• He asked me about myself, and my name, and its Welsh origin, and seemed to find the vanity I had in this harmless enough. (9)
• Our investigation is, then, a consideration of the origin and development of Music, and the means by which it took shape. (3)
• It is in the last degree undesirable that any man of German origin should remain free to work possible harm to our country. (8)
• His tricks he had mostly at second- hand, and mainly from Sterne, whom I did not know well enough then to know their origin. (9)
• Of Boston, too, though she is of western Pennsylvania origin, is Mrs. Margaret Deland, one of our most successful novelists. (9)
• Their voyages of discovery stretched up on to the moor as far as the wild stone man, whose origin their wisdom perhaps knew. (8)
• He admitted his special faults, but, by distinctly tracing them to their origin, he complacently hinted the excuse for them. (10)
• We inquired as to every impulse, the noblest, the holiest in effect, and he found them in the last analysis of selfish origin. (9)
• His having called the death of his darling his lightning-stroke must have been the origin of the report that he died of lightning. (10)
• She showed, with a pride perhaps partly mercantile in origin, his pockets preposterously swollen with tops and whistles and string. (2)
• This woman she had never seen, whose origin was doubtful, whose marriage must have soiled her, who was some kind of a siren, no doubt. (8)
• First, a sluttish trollop of German origin is foisted on him for life; next, he is misled to abjure the faith of his fathers for Rome. (10)
• She hesitated, coloured, betrayed confusion; her senses telling her of a catastrophe, her conscience accusing her as the origin of it. (10)
• They were of New England origin and they were perhaps a little more critical with her than if they had been New Yorkers of Dutch strain. (9)
• All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators. (4)
• They were still too much in shadow, however, to reveal their nature and origin to an indolent attention, and again he resumed his reading. (1)
• Whence these songs came is by no means certain, the prevailing opinion being that they were of Greek origin, modified by Hebrew influence. (3)
• Her partiality for this gentleman was not of recent origin; and he had been long withheld only by inferiority of situation from addressing her. (4)
• The part of him that was Western in his Southwestern origin Clemens kept to the end, but he was the most desouthernized Southerner I ever knew. (9)
• Traditionally of Danish origin, its men folk had as a rule bright reddish-brown hair, red cheeks, large round heads, excellent teeth and poor morals. (8)
• The Bohemian opera is of more recent origin and is associated principally with the names of =Friedrich Smetana= (1824-1884) and =Antonin Dvořák= (1841-1904). (3)
• The tales of her Whitechapel origin, and heading mobs wielding bludgeons, are absolutely false, traceable to scandalizing anecdotists like Mr. Rose Mackrell. (10)

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