| 单词 | calliope |
| 例句 | Not long after, someone starts up the calliope and the parade begins. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z This is history as farce, accompanied by calliopes and ragtime; the passage of the 18th Amendment is finally marked by the ringing of a strongman’s bell, as at a carnival. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z After the work’s brief weekend appearance is over, Ms. Walker will be back in possession of a loud calliope in a large wagon. After a Blowup Kara Walker Lets Off Steam in New Orleans 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z A large, silent, gray battleship dominates one room, while a raucous calliope plays in another gallery festooned with strings of bare light bulbs. Artist Steven Hull takes a seat at the dark carnival of life 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The gear was comprised of an array of six launcher tubes designed to hurl decoys into the sky to confuse incoming missiles, resembling a calliope in military cosplay. Japan's Cute Army 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z No, the gold rosette goes to Yellow Mama, which represents conceivably the finest cluster of cosmic carnival calliope we've heard since Zaireeka. New band of the day ? No 950: Therapies Son 2011-01-20T17:41:47Z SAT-MON Opening weekend of the season for 1890s Alaska Gold Rush-style narrated cruise aboard steam-powered paddle wheeler with "Klondike Cabaret Show" and steam calliope, starting Saturday, 1 p.m. Community calendar 2012-04-11T23:15:04Z Try a few, crank up the calliope and make your own show. 7 Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained During Spring Break 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Then we went through our industrial phase: The calliope appeared atop a plume of pressurized steam in the early 1850s. Perspective | AI is taking music lessons. They’re not going great. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Beltway Democrats will blame their likely 2022 drubbing on the rise of right-wing racist reactionaries and the Fox News/One America News propaganda calliope. Democrats dine in luxury while families struggle — it's a recipe for electoral Armageddon in '22 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Linthicum also contributes saloon piano and calliope organ, as well as weepy steel guitar on “Old Fashioned Man,” a country waltz about not dancing. Review: Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams form unique trio 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z But the fair website says drive-thru exhibits included old fire trucks, livestock and a calliope. Funnel cakes to go: Drive-thru fair draws thousands in SC 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “It had a steam powered organ — a calliope — that was inimitable,” wrote Chuck. Perspective | For some people, children should most definitely be heard 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z There is no smell of deep-fried funnel cakes sprinkled with powdered sugar or the sounds of generators, loud music and the carousel’s calliope. Quiet summer for Wisconsin amusement ride operators 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The Natchez played a calliope tribute, the first time the calliope has been heard in weeks after the boat stopped its tours. Louisiana hospitals, medical staff stretched thin amid virus 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Sound trucks, calliopes and bands called the attention to the necessity for preserving that democratic safeguard. From the Archives: No third-term Day in Los Angeles 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Her six-year-old feet skimming swiftly over battered gray grass, twinkly, too-bright colored lights, shards of mirror, the wild music of a steam calliope. A mysterious lever can reset the world. Do you pull it? 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It was performed exclusively by kids -- little kids, bigger kids, teenagers – but was a full-on big top experience, with sawdust and a calliope, acrobats and aerialists. Review: 'American Experience: The Circus' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z History unfolds in a circus of tweets and surprises, with Mr. Trump playing all the roles: roaring lion and trapeze artist, clown and calliope. Did an Ancient Greek Anticipate Trump? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Now he’s got Twitter , his own loud calliope. Trump 7, Eagles 0 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z I also received bright orange 3D plastic models for those sizes, which, clustered together, resemble a miniature skyline or calliope pipes. Covering Condoms: A Notoriously Slippery Subject 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “The White City,” Acevedo/Eulalia writes of Chicago, “was a young woman in a wedding gown. It was an undiscovered country. A calliope being played for the first time, crisp and raucous.” Books to disappear into this fall 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Such as Saturday morning’s Double Take Parade, in which costumed twins and their family members walk alongside themed floats as an old calliope plays carnival tunes. Double the pleasure, double the fun. At Twins Days, an Ohio town revels in its quirky past. 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z If you hear the distant sound of a calliope overhead, it’s probably a flock of sandhill cranes flying in formation looking for a place to land. Cranes, en route to Alaska, find respite in Othello 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Park inhabitants include bison, weighing in at as much as 2,000 pounds, and calliope hummingbirds, as light as two paper clips. The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Miyazaki is most clearly felt in the movie's mechanical wonders, from the clanking robot suits to the derelict airships to the charcoal-puffing steam cars, with their calliope engines. Miyazaki meets Pixar in April and the Extraordinary World 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Both said they were enjoying the onboard entertainment, and learned the calliope is a musical instrument best appreciated from a distance, where it isn’t quite as loud. American Queen offers luxurious Upper Mississippi cruise 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z At the bar, a calliope of tiny glasses was waiting for me: honey and cherry and lemon. “The Prospectors” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Its 32-note calliope — a steam-powered piano just like the old boats had — is certainly one of its main attractions. Natchez, beloved jazz steamboat of New Orleans, turns 40 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z When the tremolo is turned off, the organ sounds much like a calliope. 87-year-old theater organ removed for restoration 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z As my parents tell it, when I was 3 I heard my first calliope, a steam-powered pipe organ, on a steamboat. On the Steamboat, and Striking Up the Calliope 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Also powered by the steam engine is a 37whistle calliope, which is played daily as the Queen leaves port. American Queen offers luxurious Upper Mississippi cruise 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Resting in the recovery room, safely behind our privacy curtains, we were a veritable human calliope. Trust me, when it comes to a colonoscopy, you have nothing to fear but fear itself. On Sundays, Hawley — who retired in the 1980s from the river — still plays the calliope. Natchez, beloved jazz steamboat of New Orleans, turns 40 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z He guaranteed, however, the presence of his homemade calliope, a fixed-volume relic of circuses and carousels. City Room: A New Year’s Tradition’s Last Ear-Splitting Blast 2013-12-31T16:34:49Z The boat, with its 88 staterooms and now-silent steam calliope, was not always at the center of political debates and public relations brawls. A Historic Vessel, Stuck in Place 2013-12-18T01:16:54Z Or it’s a sign in a goofy font, with calliope music. The Haggler: Consumer Annoyances, and Ways to Stop Them 2012-12-15T21:30:01Z It rumbles past the graveyard, accompanied by music from a calliope with no one at the keyboard. Ray Bradbury, Magician, 1920-2012 2012-06-06T17:55:02Z Hawley got his start on the rivers playing the calliope before he went on to become a pilot and captain. Natchez, beloved jazz steamboat of New Orleans, turns 40 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Me, a deacon in the church, to be ownin' four gilded circus chariots and a steam calliope, to say nothin' of a trick elephant and a pair of dancin' cinnamon bears. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z He gladly sought the shelter of the blanket and was soon giving me selections on the calliope. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Or perhaps you think it more profitable to buy a steam calliope—some very good ones are offered second-hand in the Paste-Brush—and tour your neighboring towns. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z They take it like a dentist's pet; but when you tap one of these pikers for a couple of mean little thousands he howls like a steam calliope. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z So, he quipped to the captain that he could play the calliope and get people down to the boat. Natchez, beloved jazz steamboat of New Orleans, turns 40 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z He would have made the fortune of Spalding & Rogers by singing an accompaniment to the calliope. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z It sounded like a cross between a fog-horn and a calliope. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z They came in behind her, David making as much noise as a calliope. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z But the most expert burglar in the world couldn't have controlled those dogs—Mrs. Price's Airdale was as savage to strangers as a wolf and had a bark on it like a steam calliope. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Next thing he knew, the captain offered him a job that summer playing the calliope in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Natchez, beloved jazz steamboat of New Orleans, turns 40 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The calliope hummingbird weighs only as much as two paper clips, yet it migrates annually between Canada and Mexico. Flying Machines, Amazing at Any Angle 2011-01-03T22:56:34Z A calliope blares from the coat pocket of another patient, a young man. Cases: In Therapy, but Feel Free to Answer Your Phone 2010-03-22T22:10:00Z Josiah Flynt once wrote a tale of some enthusiastic young promoters who undertook, at a considerable outlay in capital and in personal risk, to sell a steam calliope to the Grand Lama of Thibet. Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse We would have tried to imitate a calliope if we had thought that it would have done any good against this pitcher. Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside Now like the music of a calliope the squeak of his wagon wheels awoke the village. The Loves of Ambrose One had the hooping cough, and every now and then would hoop till the perspiration rolled down his face; then he would shriek out the daily newspapers, in a voice like a calliope. Every-Day Errors of Speech "Morra, Con," came the answer, in calliope tones from our guest. My Lady of the Chimney Corner American soldier boys, chafing under enforced idleness in trenches and dugouts, would often 132 beguile their time making these miniature calliopes to catch the wind. Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp Even the ornate band wagon was shabby and the vociferous calliope seemed to have the croup whenever it was played. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended A string of a dozen red vans followed the elephants, and at the very rear of the line was the big steam calliope. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters Madame Podvin, having been diverted from her original purpose by this unexpected mêlée, set up a scream that would have drowned an active calliope. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The whole town was following the circus procession and the steam calliope, playing “Yankee Doodle,” and the place around the circus was deserted. Sielanka: An Idyll “Just listen to that snorting calliope, playing ‘Home, Sweet Home’ as they go prancing down the Big Muddy. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas It was followed by a responsive whistle, clear as a calliope note. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer A steam calliope, shrieking a tune mechanically above the music of the band and the roar of carts, was frightening farmers' horses to the point of frenzy. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill The orchestrion blares, the chimes ring a knell to peace and harmony, the calliope shrieks to heaven. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Immediately the little girl set up a yell that, 195 as Burd declared, could have scarcely been equaled by a steam calliope. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air The young man from Baltimore assured him that this was called music; the music of a steam-organ or calliope, then a new invention on the Western rivers. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas It’s like a piccolo or a calliope to hear them talk—yes, sir, talking just as knowingly as we do.” Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Again one would put his hand to his lips, and a shrill war-whoop would rival the screaming of the steam calliope. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill This is the best show we've had since the calliope blew up and killed the elephant in the circus when I was seven years old. Otherwise Phyllis I'm a grand cathedral organ and a calliope sharp, I'm a gushing, trembling nightingale, a vast �olian harp. Wild Animals at Home The imitation was so perfect that every fellow could imagine again the tail end of a gaudy circus parade and the steaming calliope. Over the Line Hands clapped, laughter flared out, desks were slammed, papers were rattled, feet pounded, and the brazen monotonous clanging voice of the clerk sounded above it all like some new steam calliope whose sounds were words. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West And here, in the spring of the year, the calliope could be heard far down the Ohio as the showboat steamed into view. Blue Ridge Country The man with the steam calliope sat exhausted over his keyboard. Pagan Passions Intoxicated by the rich spice of circus odours, the booming calliope, the galloping horses, we hardly know what we are doing half the time. Pipefuls Late at night we swung loose and rushed past Selma, with the calliope screaming "Dixie" and "ze Van Dorn;" for the professor was himself again and waxed irate and red-patriotic over the news. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Tennyson was dead onto his job," says I. "But when do we annex the steam calliope and the boys in red coats with banners? Shorty McCabe This man was a human calliope, and had the voice of an African lion when out of meat. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel Symes was lying flat on his back, snoring loudly enough to drown out all but a few notes from the steam calliope, which was singing itself loudly to sleep somewhere in the distance. Pagan Passions Grady, not strong enough financially to annex a calliope, altered an old animal cage that resembled the exterior of a calliope. Watch Yourself Go By As for noises,48 when one has associated with a steam calliope one ceases to mind anything in that line. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle The streets were all full of people and the steam calliope made so much noise you'd think you were in a boiler factory. Roy Blakely, Pathfinder And when we had got there, as clandestinely as a steam calliope in a circus procession, the moose was gone. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Cut it out—cut out the steam calliope!—unless you want a burlesque. On Christmas Day In The Evening In a stove inside, the volumes of smoke issuing from the stovepipe, a strong man turning the hand organ, the greatly improved steam calliope was calculated to astonish the public. Watch Yourself Go By "But he'd be better equipped if he drove about in a piano-organ, or if he preferred an auto on a steam calliope." The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) You give me a thousand dollars for my car, and I'll agree to haul that old calliope up to my barn, out of your way, and make a hen roost out of it. Homeburg Memories We rushed out, and there was Dollar Mark Bull chasing Virginia around and around among the big pine trees while she yelled like a calliope. I Married a Ranger Next to a steam calliope preserve me from a "smart" person. A String of Amber Beads The man inside the calliope, the fireman, was too industrious. Watch Yourself Go By But the solo, as far as Mary was concerned, might have been a siren whistle or a steam calliope. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware "We'd get along a lot better without one or two human calliopes—" he begins. Homeburg Memories "I have never particularly admired the steam calliope as a form of expression," observed Miss Van Arsdale. Success A Novel He's running around the State now, and they're listening to him like they'd listen to a steam calliope, but what he says don't amount to anything for an argument. The Ramrodders A Novel The whole interior of the calliope was ablaze, smoke issuing from every crack and crevice. Watch Yourself Go By The Crow family snoozed comfortably in spite of the calliope shrieks of the wind. The Daughter of Anderson Crow The circus might come to town, have the big parade and go, without their catching a sight of the camels or a note of the calliope. The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Hotels were doing a thriving business; steamboats were at the wharf, whistling and playing their calliopes. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Associated words: light-fingered, booty, spoil, plunder, loot, swag, spoils, predatory, fence, kleptomania. stealthy, a. clandestine, sly, secret, furtive, skulking, underhand. steam, n. vapor, reek, fume, emanation, effluvium, exhalation, stufa. steam organ. calliope. steel, n. Putnam's Word Book He installed a very large and loud hand organ inside the imitation calliope wagon, with a stovepipe poking out of the top, plenty of damp straw inside, a man to feed and burn it. Watch Yourself Go By True, candidates were all in roar On every platform, as before; And villains, as before, felt free To finger the calliope. Black Beetles in Amber Take a gentleman's advice and apply the soft pedal to your wheezy calliope—get off the political stage in time to avoid the coming cataclysm of sphacelated cabbage and has-been cats. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Last of all came the tooting calliope, followed by swarms of boys as it executed, "Wait till the clouds roll by, Jennie" with infinite dash and gusto. The Gentleman from Indiana The thing itself is a combination of a moving picture and a calliope. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Chariots, cages, vehicles holding tent paraphernalia, a calliope, ticket wagons, horses, mules, ponies, seemed in endless parade. Andy the Acrobat And off Bob went, whistling like a calliope and not even turning his head to look at the cabin. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine The sound of the "calliope" was truly ludicrous. The Motor Girls on a Tour You’d have got mightily discouraged after your Antediluvians had chewed up a few dozen steam calliopes, and eaten every other able-bodied exhibit you had managed to secure. A House-Boat on the Styx Now and then the high, metallic notes of the calliope rose above all the rest, bringing a glint of pride to the eyes of Teddy Tucker. The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South There was a shrill, whistling shriek from the calliope wagon. Andy the Acrobat They carried twenty-five wagons, besides a band wagon, a wild-west coach and a calliope. The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life Claude and his mules rattled into Frankfort just as the calliope went screaming down Main street at the head of the circus parade. One of Ours Steam calliopes, newsboys, street venders, and other unnecessary sources of noise are still tolerated. Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business |
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