piano-organ

Example Sentences

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Schweitzer, "still passably robust," was�when last heard from�busy playing Bach on his ant-proof piano-organ, treating and teaching the Africans, and writing his 21st book.

From Time Magazine Archive

Somewhere close at hand a piano-organ was playing the intermezzo from "Cavalleria," and the child tripped towards the sound.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

He turned a corner and came into a narrow street that throbbed with the joyous melody of a piano-organ.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

She clasped him round the neck, and together they spun round two or three times; while at the very moment a piano-organ at the opposite corner struck up a waltz.

From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Could it seem as ordinary to them as the cold uproar of the piano-organ to the urchins of Whitechapel, or the whine of the fiddle to the peasants of Touraine where Suzanne was born?

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe