anvil chorus
Example Sentences
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The riders settled for a chilly flatcar under a heaving truck, leaving Colton amid a terrifying anvil chorus of wheels, cars and couplings stressing and whining.
From Time Magazine Archive
Either way, the issues of the McDonald-Abel fight were certain to reverberate like an anvil chorus for a long time in steel uniondom and in the executive suites of the industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Vandeford was surprised to feel how hard his heart beat, and he was afraid that it sounded like the echo of an anvil chorus in the big empty theater.
From Blue-grass and Broadway by Maria Thompson Daviess
That's the idea and if anyone starts the anvil chorus they get the skiddo.
From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by Kenneth McGaffey
I had arranged that after the anvil chorus, the opening scene of the second act should terminate; the duet between "Manrico" and "Azucena" being thus left out.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson
