Citations:tunably

English citations of tunably

Adverb: "in a tunable manner; tunefully"

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• 1652 — Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, Act I:

  They can sing any thing most tunably, Sir, but Psalms.

• 1884 — Charlotte M. Yonge, The Armourer's Prentices, Chapter 8:

  I sang them the old hunting-song, and they said I did it tunably, […]

• 1892 — Andrew Lang, Letters on Literature, Longmans, Green, & Co. (1892), pages 11-12:

  But even the Grecian flute, as in the lay of the strife of Apollo and Marsyas, comes more tunably in the echo of Mr. Arnold's song, that beautiful song in "Empedocles on Etna," which has the perfection of sculpture and the charm of the purest colour.

• 1896 — William Morris, The Well at the World's End, Chapter 21:

  Then she laughed, and her laughter was as silver bells rung tunably, and she said: "But where is the cup for the drinking?"