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单词 street organ
例句 street organ
Do his hands only attend to the office of a double winch on a street organ? Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
The street organ hangs heavily on its strap. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z
Meanwhile in France, Joseph Marie Jacquard was inspired by a street organ to design the weaving "metier" - a machine based on punch-cards and a forerunner of computer code. The French connection 2011-08-01T00:31:14Z
She had never seen the inside of a church, or heard other music than the whining tones of a street organ, yet there was in her the very soul of music. Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
So a sensitive musician, driven half mad by a street organ, longs to rush out and break the thing to pieces, and kill the poor grinder for his barbarous noise. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
Verily, the street organ and its composers are things to be remembered in our prayers and toasts. Nights in London
At this moment, to prove the changing of the season, a street organ plays beneath my window. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z
Even the harmonious Pope preferred the harsh dissonance of a street organ to Handel’s oratorios. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
It is clear in my mind that a street organ had started up a gay tune and that there were sounds of gathering feet. Journeys to Bagdad
The arrangements of a street organ being entirely automatic, any one who can turn a crank can manage one of these instruments.  Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
Or—and as soon as I have the money this is what I am going to buy in Clerkenwell—you may buy a real street organ—a hundred of them, if you wish. Nights in London
He heard the maids whispering together on the stairs in Kensington Square, and the sound of the street organ in the frost. The Way of Ambition
Come to me, O my meerschaum, For the vile street organs play; And the torture they're inflicting Will vanish quite away. Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry
Perhaps in the street, an effect of light, a passing face, yes, even the plaintive grind of a street organ, some such everyday circumstance, affects you suddenly in quite a strange way. Prose Fancies (Second Series)
These are the owners or renters of the majority of the street organs, the vile, discordant instruments which set all of one’s nerves a tingling.  Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
This pleasant habit of domesticity was illustrated during the evening by an accidental incident—a noisy, mechanical street organ stopped before the windows, and in a blatant manner began its performance. The Man Between, an International Romance
Any one who can turn a crank can manage a street organ. The Secrets of the Great City
And myself, the last of the trio, at the mercy of a street organ, I cannot forget Ninette. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons
Reverenced, then, be all street organs; more melody is at the beck of my Italian boy, than lurks in squadrons of Parisian orchestras. Redburn. His First Voyage
I never hear it even now on the street organ without a certain pleasure—a pleasure mingled with pain, for its happy lilt comes weighted with the tremendous emotions of those unforgettable days. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
It may be nothing but a street organ in the spring. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
Life of Dante: An Italian; the first to introduce the banana and the class of street organ known as "Dante's Inferno." Literary Lapses
One day came a street organ, accompanied by singing, and how glad I was! By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
As he did so, a street organ began to play in front of a public-house close by. Thyrza
About six o'clock, exhausted in mind and body, he had allowed his attention to stray, when the sudden clang of a street organ startled him. Eve's Ransom
But if a street organ comes—not a mournful one-legged box eked out with a monkey, but a big machine with an extra man to pull—the children leave their games. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing. Dubliners
The air had grown cooler; in the distance around a corner I heard a street organ break suddenly and joyously into the lively strains of "The Wearin' o' the Green." The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
Music, if it were but a street organ, always stirred her heart and made her eager for the joy of song. Thyrza
Even the street organs put me in a happy mood; I owe many a page to them—written when I should else have been sunk in bilious gloom. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
And for myself, although I am past my sportive days, the sound of a street organ, if any, would inflame me to a fox-trot. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
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