Experience showed at last that it was not.
With the failure of the bass-bar the belly collapsed, and the wood broke across the grain in so extraordinary a manner as to put the fiddle beyond repair, except as a curiosity.

Its loss, therefore, is not to be so much regretted.

Sir Edward has been brought up to think more of a cricket-bat than of a violin-bow; but if he wishes at any time to buy a Stradivarius, the fortunes of Worth and Royston, nursed through two long minorities, will certainly justify his doing so.
Miss Sophia and I stood by and watched the holocaust.

My heart misgave me for a moment when I saw the mellow red varnish blistering off the back, but I put my regret resolutely aside.

As the bright flames jumped up and lapped it round, they flung a red glow on the scroll.