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He strummed a little on the piano and sang comic songs with gusto; and evening after evening, while Philip was reading in his solitary room, he heard the shouts and the uproarious laughter of Griffiths' friends above him.

And when she strummed the guitar and sang liquid, velvety Hawaiian hulas, he sat entranced.

The unforgotten and ineffaceable past strummed the fibres of his throat.

Saxon took her long-neglected ukulele from its case and strummed it into tune.

Short and easy as her tasks were, if done at all, they were slurred over, at any time and in any way; but generally at the least convenient times, and in the way least beneficial to herself, and least satisfactory to me: the short half-hour of practising was horribly strummed through; she, meantime, unsparingly abusing me, either for interrupting her with corrections, or for not rectifying her mistakes before they were made, or something equally unreasonable.

An Indian musician who strummed a guitarduring brain surgery to treat painful muscle spasms in his hand says he hopes to release his first album next year.

A man who strummed the guitar as surgeons operated on his brain yesterday demonstrated how the unusual procedure had cured the problem hindering his ability to play.

In the piano-driven Road, produced by George Martin's son Giles, there's a flashback to the Beatle of yore, while album opener Save Us is a heavily strummed rocker with an infectious chorus.

Weaver Vale's Graham Evans strummed a rolled-up copy of the Parliamentary order paper as Dr Fox was quizzed on job losses announced in the Strategic Defence Review - then admitted more could follow.