piano-organ
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He turned a corner and came into a narrow street that throbbed with the joyous melody of a piano-organ.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
From the piano-organ which he turned so gaily, Carry-on-Merry found it was necessary to caution the Griffin after his last frantic attempt to break through the ring of dancing children.
From The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton
Could it seem as ordinary to them as the cold uproar of the piano-organ to the urchins of Whitechapel, or the whine of the fiddle to the peasants of Touraine where Suzanne was born?
From The Garden of Allah by Robert Smythe Hichens
Examined by Sir Leonardo Spaghetti Coyne, Mr. Hole said that he was not aware that the mortality among monkeys employed in the piano-organ industry during the late War was excessive.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 by Various
She clasped him round the neck, and together they spun round two or three times; while at the very moment a piano-organ at the opposite corner struck up a waltz.
From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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