He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his detractors reported, "he had been often known to
beat time in the wrong place;" neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposition in the mathematics.
Gullivers Travels
`Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to
beat time when I learn music.'
Alices Adventures In Wonderland
And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, Marya Dmitrievna, curved his arms,
beat time, straightened his shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the onlookers for what was to follow.
War and Peace
Hither she had been led by two of her disguised ravishers, and on being thrust into the little cell, she found herself in the presence of an old sibyl, who kept murmuring to herself a Saxon rhyme, as if to
beat time to the revolving dance which her spindle was performing upon the floor.
Ivanhoe
He
beat time with his heels on the planks of the boat and sang:
Phantom of the Opera
They danced so beautifully that the tall white lilies peeped in at the window and watched them, and the great red poppies nodded their heads and
beat time.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
He
beat time with his forefinger to the singing upstairs; he asked me about my voice, and whether I sang; he remarked that life would be intolerable to him without Love and Art.
Law and the Lady
One after another they
beat time absently with their fingers to the waltz which the musicians happened to be playing at the moment.
Man And Wife
Let her footstep, as she comes and goes, in these pages, be like that other footstep to whose airy fall your own heart once
beat time. Take her as the visionary nursling of your own fancy; and she will grow upon you, all the more clearly, as the living woman who dwells in mine.
The Woman in White
He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently
beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.
Bleak House
Each 30-foot boat contains up to ten people paddling as well as a drummer to
beat time and a pilot at the helm to steer a straight course.
TWI SET FOR CHARITABLE DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
It's not just how well you
beat time, it's not just that.
12 trips through the score and around the world with Gerard Salonga
"The Economic Development Board and Tamkeen are headed towards a knowledge industry where you're pushed to
beat time. Training for productivity is a slow process, organizations have to increase their pace and keep on the rail in order to succeed." Dr.
BAHRAIN REAL ESTATE - "SAFE FROM GLOBAL MARKET PLUNGE"
Kids receive a Geox
Beat Time voice-activated watch with every pair.
savvy shopper[...]; We track down the best of the high street
In order to quantify the spatiotemporal relationship between movement and beat, the phase angle of
beat time was calculated (Fig.
Motor control of rhythmic dance from a dynamical systems perspective: a review