1
Next came the minstrels, playing merrily on tabor, fife, sacbut, rebec, and tambourine.
2
It was Rizzio's skill upon the rebec that had first attracted Mary's attention.
3
The following were the names of the instruments: cittern, bagpipe, clarion, rebec, psaltery, syrinx, sackbut, regals, gittern, shalm, timbral, and cymbals!
4
At this instant the united sound of the lofty harp, the melodious rebec, and the chearful pipe, summoned them once again to the plain.
5
How many people must be like Saint-Gueltas, like Count de Sauvieres, like Rebec!
6
Is it Rebec-isit Miss West you are alluding to?
7
There was plenty of singing, and the violins and rebecs, flutes, and reed-pipes were never silent.
8
At Mother Rebec's, with you to-night, I drank some for the second time in my life.
9
Some of the latter grisly shapes were playing on tambours, others on psalteries, others on rebecs-every instrument producing the strangest sound imaginable.
10
Very well, then, let 's go to Mother Rebec's tavern at Corlay, the sign of 'The Dawn'- aprettysign, but a poor lodging.
11
(1) Three-stringed viol or rebec.