And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate for a company that had met such cruel losses in the morning.
He once asked an old dame of Palermo to repeat him some of these ditties.
The 'people,' too, seem to have forgotten their natural gift of poetry, for the only songs now heard about the streets are badly translated French or English ditties.
Those who did not know the words either whistled the air or improvised an impossible ditty.
Folk-song had died out in country villages and the music hall 'ditty' was to be found in its place.
The ditty of the court is to exact the penalty which is the price of putting in the receipt.
If persons are given powers of that kind, there really ought to be some clear definition of their ditties.
