Sentence examples for gwin from inspiring English sources

To this is added a playing of a percussion group comprising a double-headed drum (patma), a pair of cymbals (la gwin), and clappers playing a duple or a quadruple metre.

In January 1855 Gwin introduced a bill to finance a system of weekly service across the frontier along a central route, but this bill too failed.

Regardless of who originated the idea, by January 1860 Russell was running with it, supported by Gwin.

23) includes a strong group of works by Bouguereau and his followers; this sale is framed by two offerings of furniture and decorative objects, one presenting a general selection of nineteenth-century pieces (Oct . 22, the other offering two hundred lots from the collection of the San Francisco decorative-arts dealer Foster Gwin (Oct . 24.

Mr. Gwin, a burley former F.B.I. agent who has dedicated his retirement to the study and stewardship of the Anasazi landscape, said the region's mix of ancient past and verdant nature was unmatched anywhere in his travels.

"I enjoy being out there, being quiet and appreciating the people who lived there 1,000 years ago — imagining what Chimney Rock meant to them," said Mr. Gwin, who leads tours as an unpaid volunteer for the federal Forest Service at the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area, about an hour east of here.

Foster-Gwin pairs paintings by the Abstract Expressionist Hassel Smith with Italian Baroque furniture to good effect.

It's in the centre of a county called Gwynedd, which I always mispronounced Gwen-idd because of the double d (it's Gwin-eth).

Few songs stand out from the generic-feeling texture, although Mr. Gwon's lyrics hew closely to the quirky, often sour tone of Mr. Meno's book.

"It's a tremendous honor," Mr. Gwon said on Friday of winning the Kleban.

A series of drawings by Steven Gwon, titled "six months," will grow to 18 panels from 8 as Mr. Gwon adds artwork he will create over the course of the exhibition.