The query was about the violoncello, and Fenwick was coming back to the room where his wife was closing the piano in anticipation of Ann.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Herr Lutz was Herr Gottfried's greatest friend and was notable for three things, his enormous size, his surpassing skill on the violoncello and his devoted attachment to the veriest shrew of a little sharp-boned wife that ever crossed from Germany into England.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The little groom sprang down and ran to the ponies' heads as his mistress alighted, and after sweeping her rich dress aside, held out her hand for her mother, who got out of the carriage slowly, and in what was meant for a very stately style, her quick beady eyes having shown her that the windows on either side of the front door were wide open, while her sharp ears and her nose had already given her notice that the lodgers were at home-a low buzzing mellow hum with a wild refrain in high notes, announcing that old Mr Linnell was at work with his violoncello to his son's violin, and a faint penetrating perfume-or smell, according to taste-suggesting that Colonel Mellersh was indulging in a cigar.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn