graphophone
Example Sentences
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But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
And after that they wound up the graphophone and heard a lovely song, which I’m going to tell to you because it was so pretty.
From Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox by David Cory
Then he burst out suddenly: "Ye know the graphophone an' the kodak and the biograph an' all them things what ye can see down to Keene?"
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
While thinking of this, I became aware of the noise of a cheap graphophone carrying a melody with its raucous voice; the sounds came from a cabaret just below the steamboat landing-place.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
A graphophone stood revealed, one of the finest quality.
From Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green
