1 Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.
2 Dunyasha ran up and down like one possessed, and was continually slamming doors; while Piotr was, at three o'clock in the morning, still attempting to strum a Cossack waltz on the guitar.
3 Anisya, go and see if the strings of my guitar are all right.
4 Anisya Fedorovna, with her light step, willingly went to fulfill her errand and brought back the guitar.
5 Without looking at anyone, "Uncle" blew the dust off it and, tapping the case with his bony fingers, tuned the guitar and settled himself in his armchair.
6 She resolved to give up learning the harp and to play only the guitar.
7 She asked "Uncle" for his guitar and at once found the chords of the song.
8 What she drew from the guitar would have had no meaning for other listeners, but in her imagination a whole series of reminiscences arose from those sounds.
9 She rose, put down the guitar, and went to the drawing room.
10 When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first declined it.
11 When his children had departed, he took up his guitar and played several mournful but sweet airs, more sweet and mournful than I had ever heard him play before.
12 He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.
13 I felt that the conditions were a good deal like those of an old coloured man, during the days of slavery, who wanted to learn how to play on the guitar.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VI. 14 Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
15 Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and guitars disguised as wash-boards.