Sentence examples for pieces were initially from inspiring English sources

Many pieces were initially considered too fragile for transport.

Such pieces were initially bits of impromptu buffoonery inserted by actors into the texts of religious plays hence the use of the Old French word farce, "stuffing".

Such pieces were initially bits of impromptu buffoonery inserted by actors into the texts of religious plays hence the use of the Old French word farce, "stuffing". Such works were afterward written independently, the most amusing of the extant texts being Maistre Pierre Pathelin (c. 1470).

The circulation pieces were initially struck for use in the West Indies, but beginning in 1845, were coined for use in Britain as well.

Offline's pieces are initially all sourced from writers and personalities with large online followings.

The aviary sequence and laboratory set piece were initially much longer and more complex, including Velociraptor stealthily entering the hatchery as the team spends the night there.

Change: This piece was initially headlined "Rotarians with chains on".

The piece is initially breathtaking in a familiar Oldenburgian way, and the giant paper scroll is especially beautiful.

The piece was initially published in one order, but first performed, with Mahler himself conducting, in another.

With its infectious sense of pulse, jazzy melody and consonant harmony, the piece was initially received with some hostility after its premiere.

The piece is initially disappointing: a rather dainty geometrical figure that, at about a hundred and fifty feet across, is too small — not by a lot, but fatally so — to hold scale against the sun-stunned, distantly islanded lake, amid hills that are strewn with black basalt boulders.