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Brass instruments such as the coronet, trumpet, French horn, trombone, and tuba are played by blowing into a circular mouthpiece.
It would have been simple to say "buzzing the lips"
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“There are no footnotes or endnotes in this translation. If any explanations or clarifications are required, they are embedded in the body of the text, so as not to interrupt the flow of the words. After all, as Noel Coward once famously remarked, “Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
― The Canterbury Tales: The New Translation
― The Canterbury Tales: The New Translation
“He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.”
― The Canterbury Tales
― The Canterbury Tales
“Son, when I appoint a nigger to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a nigger. [Said to an aide in 1965 regarding the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as associate justice of the Supreme Court]”
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“doctors & druggists wash each other's hands”
― Canterbury Tales
― Canterbury Tales
“if gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.”
― The Canterbury Tales
― The Canterbury Tales
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