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

As I drew near it, I heard the sound of the graphophone.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

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)

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 MacKaye, Harold Steele

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 Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham)