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

The sergeant-major fastened on to a gramophone; and that caused me for the first time to remember my Columbia graphophone that I had loaned to C Battery before I went home wounded from Zillebeke.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike

At a signal someone started the graphophone, and to the sweet strains of a march the bride appeared, leaning upon the arm of her uncle.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

One day a graphophone agent came to the house and the family became interested in one of his musical machines.

From Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls by Turner-Zimmermann, Jean

One day a graphophone agent called at the house and the family became much interested in one of his musical machines.

From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)