40 examples of melodeon in sentences

Well, after I heard the circus men talk about what they would do to the preacher, I was afraid they would kill him, so when he and a helper brought a little melodeon into the ring, facing the reserved seats, I told him the boys were going to raise a rumpus and drive him out of the tent with the bulldog hanging to his coat tails.

The little husky preacher had a Salvation Army girl to play the melodeon, and he didn't take any notice of the remarks the boys made, except to set his jaws together and moisten his lips.

Then the parson and the girl went away, and the boys carried out the melodeon, and the quarantine was declared off.

" (Sentimental strains from the melodeon.)

" "I use' to play on the melodeon," Mrs. Bett volunteered, and spread and examined her right hand.

(The melodeon will evolve "Home, sweet home.")

Playing 'Holy City' on the melodeon, and knitting tidies for church fairs?" "Girls are looked after here.

Among the furniture so mercilessly dragged from its familiar surroundings to stand on the trampled grass, was a little, square, weathered thing, which Felicia at first failed to recognize as the inevitable melodeon.

A melodeon, everybody, a parlor organ, in size, shape, and appearance very unusual, so to say.

Now who'll" The melodeon climbed to two dollars, with comparative rapidity.

Felicia was just beginning to wonder whether entering into the ring would push the melodeon too high, and the auctioneer was impatiently tapping his heel on the soap-box platform, when a clear and deliberate voice remarked: "Two dollars and ten cents.

" "It'sa melodeon!"

The quiet garden and the still old house became as well known to Ken and Felicia as to their brother, and, indeed, the Maestro might often have been seen in the living-room at Applegate Farm, listening to Kirk's proud performance on the melodeon, and eating one of Phil's cookies.

After supper, Felicia played the Toad Song on the melodeon until it ran in all their heads, and Kirk could be heard caroling it, upstairs, when he was supposed to be settling himself to sleep.

Felicia was mending beside the lamp; Kirk sat at the melodeon, rapturously making music.

Kirk galloped forthwith to the melodeon, which Mrs. Sturgis had so far failed to identify as a musical instrument, seated himself before it, and opened it with a bang.

And his touch made of the little worn melodeon a singing instrument, glorified beyond its own powers by the music he played.

There were about ten massive lorries drawn up close to the side of the road under the poplars, and Courtenay made a direct line for one from which a chink of light showed under the tarpaulin and sounds of revelry issued from a melodeon and a rasping file.

The men were reading newspapers and magazines; one was manipulating the melodeon, and another at the vice was busy with the file.

However, preparation had been made for a meeting at the Melodeon, late Lion Theatre, on Thursday evening.

In the evening a meeting was held at the Melodeon, and was attended by a large number of persons.

The leader of a choir, when they are going to sing, will strike one of the keys of the organ, or the melodeon they are using, so as to give to each member of the choir the proper key-note of the piece of music they are to sing.

Blues for an old melodeon.

It is also to be borne in mind that much can be done under cover of the darkness, which is sometimes total for a few minutes before the séance begins, and also that the notes of the melodeon are sufficiently deep and loud to drown not a little rustling.

The walls were papered and ornamented with costly pictures and engravings, the windows were hung with curtains, the floor was covered with a soft, bright-coloured carpet, a large walnut writing-desk occupied one corner of the room, a rosewood melodeon the other, and in the centre stood the dining-table, covered with a fresh cloth, polished china, and glittering silver.

40 examples of  melodeon  in sentences