Word: tenore
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...road, and with half-spent force was rolling along, when a farmer spied it, and, thinking it might be running away from somebody, put out his foot to arrest it; the mass X velocity was too much for the farmer; the ball continued on in the "even tenor of its ways" with about two thirds of his leg. This deliberate appropriation of his own personal property so enraged the honest man that he ran after the ball (pretty good for a man with one leg), and bringing it home put it in his cellar. Like the famous "old lady...
...many thoughts of clashing tenor bearing...
...Verily, a free country is America; where people can put on or take off armorial bearings, as they would that particular bearing which goes in student circles by the name of "dog." The debates in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions are sometimes most interesting, as affording indications of the tenor of thought prevailing among the more educated classes of the younger part of the nation. Thus, in Oxford, the motion that "this house sympathizes with the insurrection in Herzegovina" was carried, 56 to 8. In Cambridge, "that this house strongly disapproves of the conduct of government regarding the Admiralty circular...
...piece which particularly added to the credit of the club was the Serenade, by Storch, with its pathetic tenor solo, and humming accompaniment, rendered with such smoothness and accuracy as to call forth a demand for an encore...
...Szemelenyi's tenor solo and Mr. Finck's 'cello solo were honored with encores, as usual...