"Minor key" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in each canoe singing a plaintive chant in minor key, accompanied by heavy strokes of the paddle handles against the sides of the canoe, as if to keep time. There were some fine voices to be heard, and though there were but slight variations in the sounds or words, the Indians seemed never to tire in repeating, ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker
... were thoroughly religious in their tone, however quaint then: expression, and were in a minor key, both as to words and music. The attitude is always the same, and, as a commentary on the life of the race, is infinitely pathetic. Nothing but patience for this life,—nothing but triumph in the next. Sometimes the present ...
— Army Life in a Black Regiment • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... have, with the earliest literature of the race which was to be the main instrument of Celtic bad karma in historical times—the Teutons. Here, as usual, common impressions are false. It is the latter, the Teutonic, that is in the minor key, and full of wistful sadness. There is an earnestness about it: a recognition of, and rather mournful acquiescence in, the mightiness of Fate, which is imagined almost always adverse. I quote these lines from ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... her. And this resulted in an atmosphere of seriousness and responsibility which inevitably reacted on the boy, making him sober beyond his years, tempering his natural vivacity with watchfulness, and pitching even his laughter in a minor key. ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet
... was weedy, his beard was long, And weedy and long was he, And I heard this wight on the shore recite, In a singular minor key: ...
— Fifty Bab Ballads • William S. Gilbert
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