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
His explanations of the presence of the graphophone in this inner office were feeble and contradictory.
From Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green
Their taste would not have been degraded to the point where it is gratified, as in the graphophone, with a complicated succession of flat and strident sounds unmusical in themselves.
From The Ifs of History by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
Standing before the graphophone, he offered an earnest prayer, then, with his companions, sang this song.
From Indian Story and Song from North America by Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher
"I've got a kodak an' a graphophone an' a lot o' Milliken's cough syrup with the recipe——" "Why there!" cried Phœbe, exultantly.
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
