Finally, the character of the movement is in many passages soft and effeminate, contrasting in this respect with the earnestness of the other movements, even of the Tuba mirum.
He is represented clothed in the traditional toga, standing with his head turned sidewards and upwards, and in his hand a scroll with the inscription, "Tuba mirum.
Like the coco and following the same process the nipa yields a liquid also called tuba and possessing properties identical with those of the former plant.
Tuba is an opaline, slightly sweet liquid, with an agreeable taste, which rapidly becomes acid under the influence of the heat.
The man who drinks three or four cups oftuba becomes like the noisy bird that I shot with my blow-gun.
This hunter was the first man to take the liquor called tuba [164] from the cocoanut tree, and he and his friends began to drink it.
The process can also be followed with rice vinegar (see bleaching agents) substituted for the tuba vinegar.
Put these carefully into a petroleum can or other suitable receptacle filled with a boiling solution of two-thirds water and one-third white nipa or coconuttuba vinegar (see bleaching agents).
Please do not swallow the tuba while practicing and choke yourself to death.
It would be a shame for you to swallow a nice new tuba and cast a gloom over it so that no one else would ever want to play on it again.
I played the bigtuba in the regimental band, and I began to sigh for peace.
Beneath the leaves the stars shone upon our love, and when the breeze ceased, so quiet was it, senor, that we could hear the gentle dripping of the tuba in the buckets, above us in the sky.
They passed us in a flash of gleaming bronze; the creak of the bamboo poles shrieked in our ears; the pungent, sulphurous odour of the tuba stung our nostrils, and then they vanished in the kaleidoscopic colour-play of the market.
The house is yours, the tuba is fresh, and coconuts are in the trees.
Tuba is the fermented sap of the coconut palm, obtained by incisions made at the top of the tree.
They seemed to glide; the bamboo poles, balanced on their shoulders, slid as if on invisible tracks laid above the ground, and the tuba buckets at the ends were steady as if floating in the air.
Inside, I sat down upon the bench by the window while she squatted upon the bamboo-strip floor, a big cheroot tied up with hemp fibre in her mouth, a hollow coconut filled with tuba at her side.
The creaking of the bamboo poles shrieked in our ears, the pungent sulphurous odour of the tuba bit our nostrils, and long with a wistful look the cripple followed them till they were lost in the palpitating colour-play of the market.
They drank the milk and ate the white meat and gently refused some atrociously fermented tuba pressed ardently to their lips.
When they were all safely over Tuba gave thanks that his prayer had been answered.
Arriving at the crossing of the Colorado Tuba was sad.
Tremendous combinations are brought into use for the Sanctus, the Tuba mirum, and the Agnus Dei.
Of uttermost impressiveness is the Tuba mirum with its four separate orchestras of brass instruments stationed at the four corners of the stage or of the auditorium itself.
In the same work, one of Wagner's procedures in the use of the bass-tuba is anticipated in that the opheicleide is detached from its usual alliance to the trombones, and is employed alone as a reduplication of the double-basses.
It was Berlioz that discovered the richness of pianissimo brass effects, and the substitution of the tubafor the opheicleide is due largely to him.
Early the next morning the canoes are filled with water, in which the tuba root is beaten until the water is as white and frothy as soapsuds.
Instead of netting the fish, or catching them with hook and line, they asphyxiate them, using for the purpose a poison obtained from the tuba root, known to scientists as Cocculus indicus.
Many of the fish are stupefied by the tuba and, as they rise struggling to the surface, are speared by the Dyaks.
I might add that the tuba does not affect the flesh of the fish, which can be eaten with safety.
As a means of obtaining food in wholesale quantities fishing withtuba is perhaps justified.
When this part of the preparations has been completed a party of natives proceeds up-stream by canoe for a dozen, or more miles, taking with them a plentiful supply of tuba root.
The cornu was used by the Roman infantry to sound the military calls, and Vegetius[10] states that the tuba and buccina were also used for the same purpose.
The trumpet of silver mentioned above was the Khatsotsrah, probably the long straight trumpet or tuba which also occurs among the instruments in the musical scenes of the ancient Egyptians and Assyrians.
The highly imaginative writer of the apocryphal letter of St Jerome to Dardanus also has a word to say concerning the buccina among the Semitic races: "Bucca vocatur tuba apud Hebreos: deinde per diminutionem buccina dicitur.
It is said to have been founded within the memory of some of the Mormon pioneers at the neighboring town of Tuba City, named after an old Oraibi chief, recently deceased.
The wagon road from Keam’s Canyon to Tuba City crosses the Oraibi wash at a point about 7 miles above the village of Oraibi.
A few years ago atTuba City, I saw a large band of Navahos unite with the Hopis in their dances and ceremonies of harvest thanksgiving.
It took us a couple of days to get well dried out, which we spent at Tuba City, a Mormon town since abandoned by order of the Courts, which found that it was illegally located on an Indian reserve.
At Tuba City there are many Navahos living in their hogans, where the rude silversmiths are at work creating their "arts and crafts" ware, and the looms of the blanket-weavers are incessantly busy.
The poison which stupefies or even kills the fish, without making it unfit for food, is secured from the root of a plant called tuba and described to me as being a vine.
At two o'clock in the morning the beating of tuba began, to the accompaniment of shouts and outcries, and though the noise was considerable and unusual I did not find it intolerable, but fell asleep again.
Front, side, and back views Tuba fishing on the Isau River Tuba fishing.
Early in the afternoon two rather solid structures, built like bridges across the small river, were erected; on these the beating of the tuba was to take place next morning.
Men and women stood close together on each side of the long trough, crushing the tuba with sticks in a similar manner to that adopted when pounding rice.
Many "bring" were erected over the stream, and I noticed that they were smaller than those I had seen before, but the arrangements for beating the tuba were far more elaborate.
Fishing with tubais known to them, also to the nomadic Punans and Bukats, Saputans, and Penihings.
Before daylight they began to beat these light-brown tuba pieces until the bark became detached.
Possibly the fish had been practically exterminated by the tuba poisoning of former years.
Tuba An intoxicating drink made from cocoapalm sap; it is gathered daily.
Tuba In the morning it is scattered in many places, but in the evening it is united into one place.
If you have time to visit the little pueblo of Moenkopi, 2 miles fromTuba and perched on the mesa edge overlooking the farms, it will interest you.
At Tuba itself, there is not much for the casual visitor, except a couple of Indian trading establishments and a Government Boarding School with its concomitant buildings connected with the Agency of the Western Navajo Reservation.
To Tuba there is a semi-weekly automobile stage (with shovel and water bags strapped to it), making the round trip usually inside of one day.
Finally the deep trombones and tuba enter with a sonorous call.
We use the tuba plant, which the Malays prepare for use.
Most of the fishing here is done with the tuba plant; and I think it is mean to stupefy the fish, and then pick them up on the top of the water.
The idea of winding the long tube of the contrabass tuba and of wearing it round the shoulders was suggested by the ancient Roman buccina and cornu, represented in mosaics and on the sculptured reliefs surrounding Trajan's Column.
Verus tried to answer, but already the tuba blared loudly again, and, before it sounded for the third time, six Thracians had hurried the priest far away from the square, and disappeared in the street leading to the harbor.
The tubaof the Romans blared to greet the standard of the commanding General.
A tuba blared; Fara and I, followed by some subordinate officers and thirty Herulians, rode into the square to Belisarius's throne.
It seems to me that there is the blast of the tuba in the air.
The tuba blared again, and the chariots entered in a stately procession.
The warlike notes of the tuba are rousing the sleepers.
The tuba is also almost indispensable, while the inclusion of two or three saxophones will greatly increase the mellowness of the effect as well as providing an additional color to make the tonal textures more interesting.
Such is the privilege of those who visit the Painted Desert just south of Tuba City.
Recently near the western Navajo Indian agency at Tuba City, Arizona, however, the remains of several extinct animals were discovered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: baritone; brass; bugle; clarion; cornet; horn; serpent; trombone; trumpet; tuba
