Which preposition to use with piano
There wasn't even a piano in the house, but she had one brought in for the occasion.
Steinmetz had performed on the piano with a marvellous touch.
The children's governess takes upon her to correct her, when she has mistaken the piano for a harpsichord.
You will earn enough to buy another piano by and by, and you can use mine, you know; so don't be discouraged, my poor children.
But Edith went back to the piano at once, and went on trying over the song that she didn't know, without making any excuse for the faltering notes.
At half-past eleven, just when we were coming out of school, we saw a wagon coming up the hill from Lower Wood, and the horse could hardly pull the load, for there was a large piano on the wagon, a bed, and lots of other things, a table and a little box, and I think that was all.
The room, though very simply furnished, had a good deal of beauty in it, for the pictures were few and well chosen, the books such as never grow old, the music lying on the well-worn piano of the sort which is never out of fashion, and standing somewhat apart was one small statue in a recess full of flowers.
The girl's mouth hardened slightly at the corners, and she closed the piano without replying.
bang! sounded the piano like a soul in torment.
Not a thing; was lacking, from the pretty upright piano to the enameled clock ticking upon the mantel.
She got an explanation of the piano from Sylvia.
Before we left, the Marquis turned up, he looked thoroughly worn out and as piano as a beaten dog.
Then four men of Middle Lot wanted to carry the piano into the cottage but it would not go through the door because the door was too narrow and the piano too wide.
There are some people who get farther into a piano than others, making the wires speak as with a voice.
In the house of old Joe Cumberland his daughter sat fingering the keys of the only piano within many miles.
And a preposterous store, empty, echoing, bare of wall, the three pianos near the front, the remainder of the floor stretching away like the corridors of the lost.
He can make a piano out of anything.
" I was sitting in front of him, but I rose and pretended to shut the door, thus putting the table and the end of the piano between us, before I answered.
I sat under the piano beside Malta and Bella, and we never stirred till the music was over; then we went quietly away.
She had never touched the piano before him or sung a note, but much of her leisure since their return to New York had been taken up, when he was out, in keeping herself in practice against the time when she should have a chance to play for him and sing to him.
[Barlow, Yardsley, and Bradley endeavor to push the piano over the floor, but it doesn't move.
Get her rolling, and keep her rolling until she stands over there in that corner; and be careful to stop her in time, I should hate to push a piano through one of my host's parlor walls just for the want of a little care.
Can't you see that we're trying to get this piano across the floor?
"But, by a sort of miracle, there was a piano inside that had come through all the trouble.