Crossword-Solution: UNTUNEFUL 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

All who have consciously practised the art of writing know what endless and painful vigilance is needed for the avoidance of the unfit or untuneful phrase, how the meaning must be tossed from expression to expression, mutilated and deceived, ere it can find rest in words.

Singing! He would show them! He lifted up a strong and untuneful voice: "When you hear them bells go tingalingling," serving notice upon those mysterious agencies that if it should come to a face-to-face encounter "There'll be a hot time In the old town To-night!" How long Tansey consumed in treading this haunted byway was not clear to him, but in time he emerged into a more commodious avenue.

The hymns happened on that day to be familiar ones that Maggie had always known: "As pants the hart for cooling streams," "Just as I am, without one plea" and "Jerusalem the golden." These were sung, of course, slowly, badly and sentimentally, the harmonium screaming in amazing discords, and the deep and untuneful voices of some members of the congregation drowning the ladies and placing a general discord upon everything.

All sweet and various things do lend themselves And blend and intermix in her rare soul, As chorded notes, which were untuneful else, Clasp each the other in a perfect whole.

For now the untuneful trump shall grate no more; Ye silver streams, no longer swell with gore, Bear from your war-beat banks the guilty stain With yon retiring navies to the main.