The next major change was the advent of lower-value coins in the form of silver minims, struck or cast bronze, or cast potin. |
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More startling, his manic-depressive nature is expressed by sudden changes of tempo, juxtaposing passages in semiquavers with slow-moving minims and semibreves. |
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An example of this in Beowulf are the letters 'bet' in line 6 on folio 198v followed by two minims joined at bottom with a stroke through the second minim. |
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In this connection it is noteworthy that the violins in bars 3-4 play in dotted crotchets, the three-eight equivalent of the original dotted minims. |
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He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders. |
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