voluntaries
- plural of voluntary.
Example Sentences
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Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012
All Mr. Muller's love-making did not move her now as one note of Bluhm's voluntaries on the organ had done.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
"The organist played as opening voluntaries the 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' Barnaby's 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' and Barnaby's 'Bridal March.'"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
I thought the service would never end, or the organist's voluntaries, or the preacher's homily.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
I went over all the church music and voluntaries I could find at hand, read a number of psalms aloud, and as far as possible for one person I went through my Christmas exercises.
From A Woman who went to Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg
