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Jenny Lind
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What does Jenny Lind mean?
noun
- Cucumis melo var. 'Jenny Lind', a green-fleshed heirloom cantaloupe cultivar introduced in the 1840s.
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He told Harsanyi that he got his first conception of tone quality from Jenny Lind.
Outside, the streets were packed with the thousands that had followed them to the door, and were now clamoring for Jenny Lind.
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How pleasant it would be if we could listen to the cheery voice of Gordon, the playing of Liszt, or the singing of Jenny Lind!
In the parlor one would find two or three lithographs on the walls—portraits as a rule: Kamehameha IV., Louis Kossuth, Jenny Lind; and may be an engraving or two: Rebecca at the Well, Moses smiting the rock, Joseph's servants finding the cup in Benjamin's sack.
We see the Molesworths and Cantilupes of the day parading the Park; we watch Brougham fretting at a hearing in the Lords, or Peel holding forth to the Commons (where the Irish members are already obstructive); we squeeze in at the Haymarket to listen to Jenny Lind, or we run down the river to Greenwich Fair, and visit “Mr. Richardson, his show.”