Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunableness
Literary usage of Tunableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"These were formerly most famous (the more because placed in a Parochial, not
Cathedral Church) for beauty, bigness, and tunableness: though far short of ..."
2. Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells (1900)
"... was pretty enough, and she had a voice of a birdlike tunableness, so that I
would not have her out of the memory of that ..."
3. Poet Lore (1898)
"... whose skill is so easy and suave that you need to stop and look about you to
note the perfection of its polish, the unsought-for tunableness of its ..."
4. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1895)
"... for we are assured in the " Magnalia " that his utterance has a " becoming
tunableness and vivacity," although his sermons "smelt of the lamp. ..."
5. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather (1853)
"And when he came to utter what he had prepared, his utterance had such a becoming
tunableness and vivacity, to set it off, as was indeed inimitable; ..."
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