| 单词 | music box |
| 例句 | We had our ears pressed to a giant music box. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Hearing Rahim Khan speak Ali’s name was like finding an old dusty music box that hadn’t been opened in years; the melody began to play immediately: Who did you eat today, Babalu? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Lots of clothes, a music box like yours, a bike—” “You already have a bike.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z In my mind I heard the bees fanning their wings down in the dark music box. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And before the thunder followed, in a pause while wind and rain held back for one brief moment, she thought she heard, fading in the distance, the tinkling little melody of the music box. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “That music box played a very particular tune,” the man in the yellow suit went on. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I showed her the music box my mother gave me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “It sounds like a music box,” said Winnie when it was over. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached distractedly into the pocket of her skirt and took out the music box and, without thinking, twisted the winding key with trembling fingers. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s only my music box. I didn’t suppose anyone could hear it.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she stood and took from the washstand beside the bed a little square-shaped object, a music box painted with roses and lilies of the valley. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been tossed into a sack of rubbish, along with the snuffbox of Wartcap powder and the music box that had made everyone sleepy.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They passed a glass box of broken puppets, and an overgrown golden music box in a glass case. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She caressed my arm as the music box played each tinny note increasingly slower. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We nod and bow, shake hands like figures on a music box. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death’s music box. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In friskier moods, she performed lazy pirouettes, as though to the accompaniment of my own music box, which I always brought to the roof to keep me company. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Gay mentioned that I had treasured all the gifts she had ever given me and that I still had the music box. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The gravity-defying performances of those dancers, with their impossible leaps and lifts, and ballerinas who spun ’round tirelessly, like those on the tops of music boxes—well, that sounded well worth the trouble. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I would have been horrified if I had known that two days after I received the music box, Mary Miller wrote Mr. Ferris requesting that parental contact be stopped altogether. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Observe, though, the strained expression that overtakes the good king’s face whenever a certain creepy music box melody starts up. Review: In This ‘Winter’s Tale,’ the King Is Insane. It’s as Simple as That. 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The origin of Chinese music boxes like the one in the Guinness collection is as fascinating as their role in Puccini’s operas. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z In fact, judging by its use everywhere from cartoons to music boxes, it's the default lullaby. Readers recommend: children's songs ? the results 2011-02-17T16:01:23Z Taking over the piano from the evening’s musical director, Ross Patterson, she played and sang ’s “What’ll I Do?” in a soft, wistful voice accompanied by delicate keyboard figures that suggested a music box. Music Review: At the Broadway Cabaret Festival, Kooks and Cutups 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z Antique Music Boxes I have a handful of antique music boxes. James Wan Prefers Peter Jackson’s Gory Horror Comedies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z TO woo her, I needed a music box. Modern Love: Speaking at Arm?s Length With Music 2011-02-24T22:56:15Z There’s a delightful audacity in prefacing the weighty Ninth with one of Beethoven’s slenderer works, the overture to “King Stephen,” which is built around an ingratiating little tune that sounds like a classical music box. McGegan, BSO offer slender, uneven, but compelling Beethoven Ninth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z The cycles of influence and representation set in motion by these music boxes continue in the 21st century. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z Ms. Tan played two of Ms. Chen’s works, the sweetly enigmatic “Carousel” and “Cobwebbed Carousel” for toy piano and hand-cranked music box. Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z I listen to a piece of music, only a minute and a half long, that was originally written for a music box and then orchestrated. My hero Oliver Knussen by Adam Foulds 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z There is a music box quality both to his overdetermined narrative structure and fondness for mechanical devices. Portraits of Aristocracy in ‘Queen Margot’ and ‘Blanche’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Lindstrand then arrived to tinkle Happy Birthday on a music box, before drifting airily through wordless vocal impressionism over the sounds of pealing bells and then into the simultaneously lyrical and dissonant Quiet Nights. Django Bates 50th Birthday 2010-10-06T20:59:00Z They concealed mechanisms that powered pop-up shelves and music boxes, and they striped gilt on squared-off armchairs and clocks that foreshadowed the 19th-century Biedermeier fashion. Holiday Gift Guide: Antique Collections, From Royal Goblets to Buddhist Robes 2012-11-22T20:51:14Z The bare feet were jumping over the dancing, oval-shaped rope while a music box with a doll on top played. “Skylight” 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z I spent that night searching online for “custom music box melodies.” Modern Love: Speaking at Arm?s Length With Music 2011-02-24T22:56:15Z The score, with its tinkling music box lilt rousing itself with ever more urgency, flowers with originality. 'Amélie's' magical bread crumbs lead to storybook ending in musical's Berkeley premiere 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Glotzer, who writes all the compositions, describes his work as "a sonic landscape evocative of dusty old music boxes and haunted carnivals." Toy-Box Trio creates a lilting, lurching soundtrack to a carnivalesque world 2010-06-11T19:45:00Z Here a delicate melody is accompanied by a tinkling piano that suggests an heirloom music box, but with slightly off harmonies and hypnotic spiraling riffs. Music Review: Marilyn Horne Celebrates Young Singers at Zankel Hall 2012-01-21T00:03:22Z Or, more precisely: as a resonant body capable of dispersing delicate music box tinkles. International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at the Armory 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z In addition to incorporating outmoded devices such as a film projector and a Polaroid camera, his contraptions are music boxes, hand-cranked to recall an earlier technological era. In the galleries: Small universes and a large cosmos at Greater Reston Arts Center 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z This is but one of several clues indicating that a music box was Puccini’s source for this melody. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z The line is more shocking for the vaporous, ultra-femme falsetto in which she delivers it — as if the ballerina inside a music box opened her mouth and sang. Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z There was a xylophone that evoked a childhood music box, and the singer’s words repeated like a canon, or like a series of nights alone: Listening to Devon Sproule 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z I found a company that made custom music boxes for $50 each, suspiciously cheap. Modern Love: Speaking at Arm?s Length With Music 2011-02-24T22:56:15Z Hypnotic as a windup music box, this prelude soon led to a more declarative melody, played in harmonic tandem by Mr. Berne and the clarinetist Oscar Noriega, against Mr. Smith’s assertive drumming. Review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil at the Jazz Standard 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z I instantly gravitated towards this 'old music' as soon as I heard Sunday Morning – that beautiful music box intro – this was rock music? The Velvet Underground & Nico: readers' reviews 2012-11-05T16:40:19Z However, one song freed us from our private music boxes. A new river line hopes to redefine cruises for millennials 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z What we got on Sunday was magical music boxes and weighty Rick-splaining in the barn, where the group sought refuge from the worsening storm. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: On the Road Again 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Would you talk about the music boxes and drawings in Maurice’s studio? Bill Condon Narrates a Scene From ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z “If things get too bad,” she added, “well, there are always far-off cities and cowboys with guitars, new clothes, music boxes and large funds of traveler’s checks.” Tammy Grimes, the Original ‘Unsinkable Molly Brown,’ Dies at 82 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z A guide escorts you through displays of fragile dishes, birdhouses, and music boxes and into the manufacturing area. 48 Hours in Louisville 2010-05-15T00:07:00Z For what seemed like 10 minutes, Ms. Shafiroff fanned out her skirt for photographers and twirled like a music box ballerina, all but hijacking this otherwise decorous affair. What Price Generosity? 2013-06-21T22:36:02Z Seeking to expand their export business to include mechanical music, the Bovets decided to market music boxes featuring Chinese songs. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z In one magnificent burst of tulle and draped cotton underneath the welcome to the lands of Today, Tomorrow and Fantasy, we spun together as perfectly as dancers frozen in a music box. Disneyland with my invisible guest 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z A highlight of their bottomless masterpiece, Double Nickels on the Dime, this elegaic little music box of a song is a beautiful treatise on punk, priorities and posterity. F&M playlist 2010-07-15T21:30:00Z Imagine, for a moment, pulling down a heavy, cobwebbed music box from a high shelf in a dim corner of an antique barn. Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z I’ve heard it played in a way that sounds awkward, and the way you play it, it’s like a little music box. A Lullaby, a Caress: Yo-Yo Ma, Ax and Kavakos on Brahms 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z They’ve come for the shrieking cosmic being that is stuck inside Jesse’s head, which they attempt to extract by playing a lullaby on a music box before attempting to usher it into a tin can. Preacher recap: season one, episode two – See 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z “Me and you know it as a music box set,” Mr. Welch said. Critic’s Notebook: Get On Down and the Reissue Market 2013-04-18T22:28:34Z “Burrito Hill Mirror,” a reordering of Mr. Klein’s recent piece “Burrito Hill,” features an uneven chime like that of a windup music box, beautiful but subtly unsettled. Review: An Argentine Pianist and Composer’s Prismatic Experiments 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z There isn't a note of music or a human voice – except an 18th-century music box and the distant twitter of well-behaved children playing – in any of the 13 tracks. Jarvis Cocker creates 'holiday for the ears' with National Trust album 2010-05-12T11:55:00Z These included fine automated music boxes, musical automatons and mechanical musical instruments. A Master Emerges From Humble Means 2012-09-04T15:23:10Z The comical body language of Sabre reminds me of a young girl’s music box with the ballerina pirouetting when opened. 2010 Reader photo of the year and honorable mentions 2010-12-30T06:43:59Z Even now few visitors spend much time in the room where the Swiss music boxes are displayed. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z During intermission, I perused the merchandise and was proud of myself for now understanding the relevance of the music box with the cymbal-clapping monkey. Never seen a play on Broadway? How a first-timer played the odds and scored cheap tickets. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z One recent cylinder music box Wiggins worked on was missing 20 tips on its comb and 10 teeth on its cylinder. How to repair cylinder music boxes I wake up every morning and twist my ankles and it sounds like a music box — clack clack clack clack clack. Adam Rippon Is Famous. What Now? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Occasionally, a music box may accompany its owner into adulthood as a place to keep jewelry, guarded, most often, by a tiny spinning ballerina. Phyllis Chen Performs With Toy Pianos and Music Boxes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z I lock you in a form that is part music box, part meat Grinder to separate the song of the bird from the bone. Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z I thought, “These melodies belong in music boxes.” Modern Love: Speaking at Arm?s Length With Music 2011-02-24T22:56:15Z The scene was designed by the brilliant Sarah Greenwood with her great decorator Katie Spencer, who created all those beautiful music boxes. Bill Condon Narrates a Scene From ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z My pulse quickened as I listened to a music box wind down, the approaching stillness almost too much to bear. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z The tune sheet on the Guinness box bears the name of a Shanghai department store that carried Swiss watches and music boxes in the late 19th century. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z But the singer and actor’s likeness and voice continue to appear in movies, TV shows, plays and music box sets. Elvis admirers remember his death 42 years ago with vigil 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z With few comparable music boxes seen on the auction market, Stair Galleries conservatively estimated the item to sell for $3,000 to $5,000. A Piguet & Meylan Butterfly Music Box Smashes its Auction Estimate 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The highlight package includes a “Phantom” prop: A music box in the shape of a barrel organ with the figure of a monkey playing the cymbals attached. Memorabilia from Springsteen to ‘Phantom’ set for auction 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Her handmade music boxes did contain spinning figurines. Phyllis Chen Performs With Toy Pianos and Music Boxes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It was eventually to be a music box; the top flips up and the inside is hollow. What holds meaning for her? The man in the bathtub. 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z To build the mechanical works, he later established a factory in Switzerland, where he employed artisans accustomed to making watches, music boxes and automatons. Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Children play notes by placing pegs in holes on the rotating drum's surface - much like a music box - but one that allows children to play any melody they like. Rotating wooden drum aims to help child development 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z I soon discovered there are few people in the United States who repair broken music boxes, but I found one. Mine: Pop goes the birdie 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z For a music box of your own, visit the Christmas markets in Munich. Christmas market matchmaking: Where to find that perfect German gift 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z But they also introduced a fifth instrument, a music box. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z For his proposal years later, Mr. Jastrzebski, who graduated from Northeastern, constructed another, much more elaborate music box. They Passed the Ikea Test 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Toy pianos and music boxes are typically found in the nursery. Phyllis Chen Performs With Toy Pianos and Music Boxes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Karp is the author of seven previous mysteries, most of them reflecting his deep knowledge of music boxes and ragtime music. 'A Perilous Conception': a test-tube mystery 2011-12-15T20:53:04Z Profusely adorned, it featured a music box that played “Yankee Doodle” and it was accompanied by a letter from a Bingham descendant, describing the significance of the piece to the family. ‘I Cheated,’ Says Woodworker Who Fooled the Antiques Experts 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Historical license doesn’t quite cover the liberties taken, and in this riches-to-rags-to-riches tale there’s a great deal of romantic nostalgia for imperial Russia: balls, gowns, music boxes. Not Exactly Golden Tickets: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Anastasia” on Broadway 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Like a ballerina on a music box, the model spins on a rotating platform, a fragile vision in luminous white. Review: ‘McQueen’ Reveals a Dazzling and Divisive Talent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z I recorded myself performing music box interpretations of her songs on my glockenspiel. Modern Love: Speaking at Arm?s Length With Music 2011-02-24T22:56:15Z Fortunately the Guinness box includes its original tune sheet, listing the folk-song titles in Chinese and in transliteration, which turns this music box into a Rosetta stone. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z Each of the new songs looms within a larger, obsessively detailed ambience, a realm of magnified creaks and rustles, children’s voices, tinkling music boxes and shadowy orchestras. Playlist: New CDs: From Rye Rye, Maga Bo, Sigur Ros and Cold Specks 2012-05-25T21:06:59Z One features a character giving himself a shave, the daily task treated as if it’s a delicate dance atop a music box. Inside L.A.'s famous Art Deco penthouse, this show has you choose your own dark adventure 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z For decades, researchers considered mouse songs instinctual, the fixed tunes of a windup music box, rather than the mutable expressions of individual minds. The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean? 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z They were found with two small bags holding clothes, a towel, a flashlight, two phones and a music box. Losing hope of finding kids in plane crash, Indigenous searchers turned to a ritual: ayahuasca 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The elder Zia combined blue and pink duckies with a lamp shade, or a carousel with a music box, both items sporting cups for holding blooms. How one woman fought bigotry and helped change the way Asian Americans see themselves 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z “You are appearing in like a music box,” Szasz, 65, told the actors, in pleasantly accented English. With ‘Angels in America,’ a Hungarian director puts down roots in U.S. 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z "I've been drinking more alcohol for the last five days... Did you check on me?" sings the 22-year-old, her voice melancholy and mellifluous over a simple music box accompaniment. Libianca: The true story behind the star's 'more alcohol' song, People 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The first notes are alone on a piano, almost like a music box. Selena Gomez finds her balance and shares her struggle in the song 'My Mind & Me' 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Salvador González, who worked as a supervisor at the Manzanillo port in the 1970s, recalled cargoes of bootleg lamps, batteries and ornamental music boxes. Inside the daunting hunt for the ingredients of fentanyl and meth The palace, where royals once lounged on plush settees, is a Victorian music box in the center of Honolulu. Perspective | Looking for a royal fix? Hawaii’s sidelined monarchy may satisfy. 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The latter song was memorably performed as she danced on a music box. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star Sally Ann Howes dies aged 91 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z He comes unstuck, though, on Sandman - a suffocatingly insipid lullaby for his daughter, all coddled up in plinky plonky music box clichés. Ed Sheeran's = is a perfectly balanced pop album 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Together they suggest the ballerina figurine that pops up when that music box opens, spinning and spinning and no one understanding how she feels about it. Selena Gomez finds her balance and shares her struggle in the song 'My Mind & Me' 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z His melancholy music box rendition hauntingly punctuates an early shadow puppet teaser trailer. Reviving 'Candyman': How Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta made more than a sequel 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z “The nearly 100 pieces,” Glueck wrote, “include scroll-like books unrolling for more than 40 feet and a cluster of totemic sculptures with built-in music boxes ranging from 8 to 10 feet high.” Overlooked No More: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Whose Art Chronicled Black Life 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z After making his way through the room and down the stairs, the sound of a music box grows louder. Review | ‘Little Nightmares II’: A hypnotic, dark fairy tale 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Malcolm confronts Cooke, suggesting he left Gospel music behind to sing sweet ballads for white audiences like “a wind-up toy in a music box.” Review: In ‘One Night in Miami,’ speculative history sings 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z It doesn’t take long for Malcolm to call Sam a “windup toy in a music box,” pandering to white mainstream tastes with his crowd-pleasing, chart-topping singles at the expense of the Black man’s freedom. Review: Four legends walk into a motel room in Regina King's superbly acted 'One Night in Miami ... ' 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “He did a version of a music box but he also made a score that was really unique and weird,” said DaCosta. Reviving 'Candyman': How Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta made more than a sequel 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z She poured her grief into her art, and started what became “Sydney’s Memorial,” another RagGonNon, which incorporated cloth, thread and music boxes. Overlooked No More: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Whose Art Chronicled Black Life 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z This is a simple puzzle game about objects, in their most abstract and aesthetically appealing sense: a lantern, a music box, a watch, a pocketbook. Take the Edge Off With Video Games 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Oh, did I forget to mention that sprinkled between the puzzles there are a number of interactive paintings that operate like-old fashioned, key-turned music boxes? Review | ‘Creaks’: It might melt your brain, but it’s beautiful and whimsical "People just set up a music box in the middle of the street and say 'it's not mine', it's utter nonsense," he said. Equipment seized as new rave rules come into force 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z The gilded dressing table set, the good luck charms from the wedding and the ballerina music box are all still safely stowed beneath the lid. 'After mum died, no-one talked about her for 15 years' 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z She finds new textures in her voice, and its acrobatics are less flashy and more delicate, against an intricate world conjured up out of harps, music boxes and the clavichord. Björk: where to start in her back catalogue 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z He brought with him an encryption machine that looked like a fortified music box, with a sturdy crank on the side and an assembly of metal gears and pinwheels under a hard metal case. ‘The intelligence coup of the century’: For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seek three music boxes which conceal Bank of England money plates. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But the singer and actor’s likeness and voice continue to appear in movies, TV shows, plays and music box sets. Elvis admirers remember his death 42 years ago with vigil 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z There was a wooden music box, underneath whose lid a ballerina in a net skirt twirled above satin-lined compartments where Irene would tuck away her jewellery. 'After mum died, no-one talked about her for 15 years' 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The central story focuses on the original Lehman brothers — three immigrants from Bavaria who came to this “magical music box called America” in the mid-19th century — and their offspring. Lehman Brothers, a Family Saga, as Viewed by Some Who Lived It 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Some cells slowed over the course of each trial in the box experiment, like music boxes winding down; others waned in the course of the entire twelve-trial experiment, which lasted more than an hour. The Neurons That Tell Time 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The orchestra pit and stage glowed like a music box laid out below him. The Met Reinvents Itself, Yet the Ushers Remain the Same 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The plot may not always hum with the clockwork precision of one of Drosselmeyer’s mechanical toys, but like a music box, it nevertheless plays a sweet tune. Review | The Disney ‘Nutcracker’ movie is like ‘Alice in Wonderland’ meets Cirque du Soleil 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z That meant Clark’s orchestra wouldn’t operate out of the hermetic classical music box, so to speak. LA Phil at 100: How the orchestra rose from humble roots to become one of the world's best 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The sounds, described as music boxes, and the flickering lights are supposed to hark back to the early days of moviemaking. D.C.’s latest immersive art installation is a mini-cartoon inside a giant hamster wheel 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z On this occasion, the instrumentation included a traffic cone, a chunk of Styrofoam, a twig, a rock, and a discarded bassinet with a music box attached. The Sonic Fury of the Ojai Musical Festival 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z He freelances inside a form he calls “part music box, part meat grinder,” fashioning a diary of survival during a period when black men are in constant danger. The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z A handmade hickory music box that his grandmother had brought from Russia around 1910. Perspective | How to divvy up the inheritance — and keep the family together 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The “so” in this sentence is like a hinge that connects the lid of a music box to an aircraft carrier. New Sentences: From Meredith Goldstein’s ‘Can’t Help Myself’ 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z If she’s tired of your impertinent questions, she can give you the silent treatment and let this antique music box do the talking. 11 Gifts for Your Funny Valentine—Inspired by the Classic Song 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Kerrigan, meanwhile, appeared to come from wealth — despite being thoroughly working class — and was likened to “a music box figurine come to life” by journalist Steve Hummer. Perspective | Tonya Harding is having her moment of redemption. Now Nancy Kerrigan deserves hers. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z On its daily rounds the V12 is barely audible, a soft silver chiming that belongs in a music box. 2018 Mercedes-Maybach S650: Chauffeur Optional 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z At the young age of five she took apart her music box in order to put it back together. The incredible inventiveness of Hedy Lamarr 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Next, Leonard showed both groups of babies a music box and activated it using a concealed switch. Slacker parents beware: Your babies may follow in your footsteps 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z A demon inside the music box, it seems, demands a “blood price” for each wish and has begun exacting it from those around Clare. Review | ‘Wish Upon’: A derivative exercise in horror lite 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Wish Upon A magical music box grants a 17-year-old wishes with deadly side effects. L.A. film openings, July 14 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z One exception is an enamel, pearl-studded music box tucked into a bookshelf in the living room. Lynn Ahrens’s Little House in the Sky 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The reason it would have been so delicious to see Bill Clinton in the first lady role is that it would have illustrated starkly just how antiquated the white satin music box is. Free Melania — from our expectations 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The mildly food-shaming plot involves a music box baked into a cake; a fat, fainting queen; and a bossy, dismissive king; but Graham’s drawings of a court filled with cake sweeten the stereotypes. Baking Sweets From Childhood Tales 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z With the music box playing, were you scared? James Haskell answers your questions: England's challenges, a seance, Friends & more 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Bibles, Christian music and devotional books, greeting cards, decorative crosses and jewelry, posters, music boxes and many other types of inspirational items provide customers with plenty to peruse. Dodge City Christian bookstore’s doors open since 1958 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Bluhme tells The Verge that the music box is not yet for sale, but that he is looking for a way to turn it into a commercial product. This digital music box looks silly, anachronistic, and lots of fun to use 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z It shows a lonely figure in a music box walking down a bucolic country road. This Pixar-esque music video will break your heart 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Walking into a clock repairman’s shop feels like stepping into a music box. New York Today: A Master of Time 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Many of the items in the display are antique, including Santa’s Musical Workshop, a retro music box that still works. EXCHANGE: LeRoy mayor has collection of 600 Santa Clauses 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Its base is a Kikkerland music box, which works like a player piano, with songs encoded on perforated rolls of paper. A Microscope to Save the World 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But with a digital music box, the pins are moveable magnets, the steel comb is a sensor that triggers any instrument, and the end result is, well, pretty much anything you want it to be. This digital music box looks silly, anachronistic, and lots of fun to use 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr Piguet believes music boxes are still popular precisely of this reason - because they are so "completely disconnected with the means available today for producing music". Music makers: Swiss music boxes endure in electronic age - BBC News 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Each level looks like it belongs in a pop-up music box. All puzzles and no action, 'Lara Croft Go' is a simplified, thoughtful take on 'Tomb Raider' 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Nearby were custom music boxes sent as a gift from fellow Illinois billionaire Sam Zell. Citadel’s Ken Griffin Leaves 2008 Tumble Far Behind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The device is a music box, a piece of beautifully engineered metal that uses keys, cylinders, and latticed wings to play twinkling versions of six classic songs. This TIE fighter will sing you the Star Wars theme tune for $18,000 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z With a regular music box, a rotating cylinder covered in pins strikes the tuned teeth of a steel comb. This digital music box looks silly, anachronistic, and lots of fun to use 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z "It's charming in a world that evolves quickly - that invents, throws away - music boxes are always there," he says. Music makers: Swiss music boxes endure in electronic age - BBC News 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Laudon was a devoted father, Barb said, sending her music boxes from around the world. WWII sailor’s letters find home at Winona State University 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Blatter: What you call “bribes,” I call “gifts” — you should see the gold-plated music box from South Africa on my desk. Couch Slouch’s exclusive ‘interview’ with Sepp Blatter 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z As indicated by the name, the MusicMachine 3 is the third in a trilogy of music boxes designed in part by MB & F, all of which were designed to look like sci-fi spaceships. This TIE fighter will sing you the Star Wars theme tune for $18,000 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Police saw two males pushing a large music box on wheels toward the vehicle and a female open the trunk of the car. CHS janitors help catch suspects in burglary attempt 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Cylinder music boxes reached the height of their popularity in the second half of the 19th Century when they were a principal form of entertainment. Music makers: Swiss music boxes endure in electronic age - BBC News 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z We then added helpfully, “The music box is operated in the usual way.” A Given Chair Can Be Sublime, Seafaring or Just Silly 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Now she keeps a collection of porcelain angel figurines and music boxes around their home. Walter Fauntroy’s long absence hasn’t shaken his wife’s faith that he’ll return 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Kuo said the artist who conceived Baidu’s illustration for Women’s Day was a woman who was inspired by “the music boxes she loved as a child.” Baidu Users Object to Women's Day Logo 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z This gadget essentially turned one’s car into a giant music box, playing an enchanting melody whenever a door was opened. The Oddest Auto Accessories Ever 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Called the Stranger, it was the world’s first wristwatch containing a music box function. Ulysse Nardin's Stranger Music Box Wristwatch Now Plays Vivaldi 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Dermot O'Leary opened a case containing the sound of a music box playing the song Oh What A Beautiful Morning, which was said to be the last thing she heard. National Television Awards: Anne Kirkbride tributes in show 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The clockmaker and music box expert ran a museum regularly visited by children, despite social services being aware 20 years ago of his convictions for child abuse. Paedophile link to Savile show guest 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Baidu, a Chinese search engine, featured on its home page a princess doll twirling on top of a music box surrounded by jewelry and other accessories. Baidu Users Object to Women's Day Logo 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The supporting music is largely improvised on synthesizers that twinkle, sizzle and ooze — like a music box being swallowed by a lava flow. Folk artist Lonnie Holley finds a creative outlet onstage In fact, this timepiece should be thought of as a wearable, flattened music box. Ulysse Nardin's Stranger Music Box Wristwatch Now Plays Vivaldi 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Legal Documents "A divorce letter" Some Tunes "I work at a used sporting goods store, we found a music box in a used bag someone sold us." 16 strange things people have randomly found in their golf bag: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Gloucestershire County Council declined to comment on the fact that he continued to run a music box museum in Northleach, which was regularly visited by children, until his death aged 82 in June. Paedophile link to Savile show guest 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z True to her singing background, the container is a music box that plays a song Lippmann and her best friend wrote and performed, “Until Your Dreams Come True.” Deborah Lippmann celebrates 15 years of beautiful nails 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z The diary was smuggled, in the secret compartment of a music box, from communist-ruled Czechoslovakia to Australia. Actor Isobel Pravda plays her own grandmother in Holocaust survival play 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z The streamlined design is complemented by simple yet colorful art style and a haunting soundtrack reminiscent of a creepy music box in a horror movie. 'The Nightmare Cooperative' is a brutal intro to gaming's toughest genre 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Sam Zell, the Chicago real-estate mogul, goes further than many, sending associates every January an elaborate music box that he dreams up to comment on what he considers coming macroeconomic trends. Bad Puns, Cheeky Gifts Make for a Very Wall Street Christmas 2013-12-24T03:51:32Z “It was like opening a music box and it was playing, ‘New York, New York,'” he said. Remembering a Zealous Advocate of Lower Manhattan 2013-08-14T13:38:37Z The earliest chimes were operated like a music box and fitted with a magnetic pickup and amplifier. Ice-cream van chimes: the sound of the British summer 2013-07-12T15:05:56Z He said he was biracial because he knew that being perceived as mixed would open his possibilities and keep him from being forced into the Black music box. Why Prince Triumphed With Gen X 2013-03-22T09:15:00Z But he insisted that the artists not think of them as music boxes. Butch Morris Dies at 65; Creator of ‘Conduction’ 2013-01-30T04:46:20Z Mr. Zell's music boxes have become a status symbol in some corner offices, but some gifts are even more outlandish. Bad Puns, Cheeky Gifts Make for a Very Wall Street Christmas 2013-12-24T03:51:32Z During his recovery he repaired pianos and music boxes and later, in 1876, he invented a type of automated musical instrument called a roller paper piano player. Scots who fought America's war 2012-12-18T01:21:13Z But inside the home it was just another type of music box. SOPA, Meet The Player Piano Copyright Threat 2012-01-18T14:06:04Z I must be very sweet and good And happy all the day, And then the little music box In tune will always play. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z Nothing sang here, but there was a big music box, 3 old as Mrs. Hargrave herself, that tinkled Elise to sleep if she so wished. The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins 2011-11-29T03:00:16.213Z Thereupon she touched a spring, and at once strains of delightful melody came from the big music box. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z In the 1960s and 1970s the 1949 building housed stores selling pottery, South American baskets and music boxes. | South Street: Streetscapes - A New Steward on South Street 2011-10-27T21:25:26Z At last the shopwoman called the boy within, and Dicky darted across—not directly, but so as to arrive invisibly at the side next the basket of music boxes. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z I am a little music box, Wound up and made to go, And play my little living tune The best way that I know. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z They fell into debt until a music arranger approached them with an idea for a new way to manufacture cheap, tiny music boxes. Elliot Handler, Co-Founder of Mattel Toys, Dies at 95 2011-07-23T02:24:19Z Dot followed to doorway and, peeping in, saw that this entire cottage was occupied by an enormous music box. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z In another, a sizeable Victorian-looking contraption of stainless steel, the Sharpsichord — part giant music box, part harp, part gramophone — used a rotating barrel to play deep, bonging counterpoint. Critic's Notebook: Far Beyond the Play Button 2011-07-01T14:55:12Z Thither he pushed his way, and soon, in the shade of the upturned barrow, he brought out the music box. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z In cunningly devised music boxes we shall hear again the melody of our youthful laughter and the patter of life's uncounted tears. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z There was a large trumpet or horn standing beside the table, and a small music box and a guitar and a tambourine on the table. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z When the music boxes began to pall, he would get up from his chair and look at me with a knowing smile. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z Little Lilly tried to amuse me with her dolls and music box, but my heart was longing for grandpa, Charley and Bob. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z He would look no more on the music box, beautiful as it was: he would convey it to the Ropers before temptation came again. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z Sinai Hospital before landing a job painting music boxes. Reflections on a Stilled Paintbrush 2010-05-27T22:26:00Z I remember her letting me play that music box to my heart's content, and the way she made Gregg laugh at an unexpected fall he took, instead of cry, better than anything else. Alice Cogswell Bemis A Sketch by a Friend The second set consists of nine meshed bells struck with individual hammers operated by means of a pinned cylinder as in a music box. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 Out of the boxes came gay and intricate toys; dolls of varied ages but all newly born; brightly illustrated picture books; tinkling music boxes. The Shadow He gasped, he panted, things danced blue before him, but still he clutched his jacket hem and the music box lying within. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z "Mr. Bradford had a lovely music box; it played twelve tunes." The Children of the Top Floor "How odd!" says she, tearin' off a little laugh that sounds as if it come out of a music box. Side-stepping with Shorty A low, pleasant laugh, like the soft trill of a muffled music box, greeted my statement. Cupid's Middleman An Italian clock, bought by her father in Florence, which arrived in Bangor, Maine, on the day Melissa Ann was born in 1838, stands on its original music box base upon the dining-room mantel. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria Down Widegate Street, across Sandys Row and into Raven Row he ran his best, clutching the hem of his jacket and the music box that lay within. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z ‘P’raps,’ he goes on, ‘you wouldn’t mind waking up long enough to give this music box a turn or two every now and then while the 128 fog lasts.’ The Seiners Gee!" says I. "Sounds like a new kind of music box. Side-stepping with Shorty The red velvet cozy corner and the music box and so on disappeared immediately upon her first return visit. The Gorgeous Girl That feller's got a watch with a music box in the back of it, Duke. The Duke Of Chimney Butte At this, smiling from ear to ear, Tautala held up the music box to public view, and would have set it going had not something fortunately caught in the works. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas It was a tiny yellow wooden bird that wound up with a key and sang three tunes for all the world like a music box. Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm Lord Cuttle-fish kicked over his drum, unscrewed his guitar, and packed it away in his music box. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan "A music box, as I live!" eyeing an old accordian in a corner. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska "That's harder to beat than a music box in a watch." The Duke Of Chimney Butte "It was Tautala that killed him," I said, indicating the young man we had brought from Mulinu'u, "and it turns out he sold your relation's head to To'oto'o for seven dollars and a music box." Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas He brought me upwards into a room crammed with strange machinery, all cranks and levers and wires and pulleys, and before us two great cylinders like unto a "Brobdingnagian" music box. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders This German trap was a finely polished box about fourteen inches long by six inches at its widest part, and disguised as a music box. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man It is like those music boxes which possess only a few tunes. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression A cowboy was feeding money into the music box to keep it going, giving it a coin, together with certain grave, drunken advice, whenever it showed symptom of a pause. The Duke Of Chimney Butte You've seen them, haven't you?—the kind of packing they put into music boxes, fine toys, and the like, flummoxy twisted paper ravelings that protect the varnish and have no weight to speak of. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas I think in order to fully accomplish the feat of making this a two-wheeled cart, and a music box combined, they must have used kerosene oil for axle grease. Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891 Finally, by Mother's advice, he settled on a quaint little painted music box for Ruth that played four different tunes, and a picture puzzle game for Nelson, who liked to put things together. Sunny Boy in the Big City It has a pretty tone, something like that of a music box; and the selections are pretty, too—old-fashioned airs that were familiar to the people of that day and are now curious and interesting. Christopher and the Clockmakers Inside the box was one of those little, old-fashioned Swiss music boxes, and May was industriously turning the crank. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers They kept the music box, and I have got to carry in coal to get money enough to buy my chum a new music box. Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 He pointed to a gaudily striped electric music box that filled a corner of the tavern. Blue Ridge Country You can’t give piano lessons on a rolling pin, and that music box of yours is after all the tool you make your living by. The Goose Man It was made of polished steel and looked not unlike an Edison music box. The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds When Katherine got Old Man Wright to dance with her there wasn't no one left to play; so we set a music box going, and Katherine made me play on a Jew's-harp too. The Man Next Door And I'll get a music box and a lot of new records. Mistress Anne That dandy Temple feller went there to call on her, an’ I heard him tinklin’ that music box, and its my opinion he needs a wallupin’! Marcia Schuyler "And no duty to pay on my music box," said Rollo. Rollo in Holland Seated on cushions, they spent their time listening to cuckoo clocks and music boxes, smelling perfumes, putting their jewelry away in caskets, then bedizening themselves all over again. Sacrifice Children's music boxes invariably contain this selection, and the melody cannot help but activate a pleasant nostalgia. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis For the music box and Shakespere's skull and the corner in wheat are all merely different kinds of examples of the things called a monopoly sale. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice So now the little music box ticked off its music to the entertainment of all. A Woman who went to Alaska It was one of these husky baritones, like what does the coonsongs for the punky records they put into the music boxes at the penny arcades. Torchy Then Gladiola moved up to the squeaky end of the piano and gave an imitation of a Swiss music box. You Should Worry Says John Henry Nora, if he sounds another note, take the infernal music box away from him. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers All the musical instruments in the world, from the penny whistle to the grand piano, are but poor imitations of the human music box. A Handbook of Health He seats himself on the pavement, with his legs tucked under him, and turns the crank of an instrument which seems to be a doleful compromise between a music box and an accordion. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Sue cried, pointing to a little furry creature on top of the music box. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm Uncle Tony says that he heard that the minister bought out the poolroom man, because some one saw the music box being hauled over to the minister's house. Green Valley Harriet sat on the steps in the fading sunlight and the small music box flung herself into the outstretched arms with a force that was alarming. The Heart's Kingdom Your own music box is made on the same plan. The Child's Day Another swindler advertises a music box for $2.50, “warranted to play six airs.” Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The hand-organ man set down his music box, and he, too, raced down the street after his runaway monkey. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm For the babies there were big, quiet, safe rooms upstairs, and for the young people there was the hall and the back sitting room, the piano, the music box and Timothy Williams. Green Valley Jean set the music boxes going to celebrate the occasion, then stopped them because the only tunes they played were German tunes. The Tin Soldier How many sounds you can make from one tiny music box! The Child's Day Henny, the Dutch doll, dragged the little square music box out into the center of the room and wound it up. Raggedy Andy Stories Ill., a music box and self-lighting pocket lamp for a miniature steam yacht. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 She swallowed, because she had not grown tired of the music box. Jewel's Story Book Mary Ethel was turning the crank of a small music box, around which were clustered a group of the stranger children. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird When she is a little stronger I am going to have a music box for her. For Woman's Love Raggedy Andy again wound up the little music box and, catching the French doll about the waist, started a rollicking dance which lasted until the roosters in the neighborhood began their morning crowing. Raggedy Andy Stories Then, as there came sudden splintering blows on the door, Lane espied Swann's cigarettes and matches on the music box. The Day of the Beast And it must have been; every morning for eighty-nine days the gaudy music box faithfully played the tune over and over again. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Nineteen, twenty," she went on counting, "and that music box for Mom Beck makes twenty-one, and the souvenir spoons for the Walton girls make twenty-five. The Little Colonel's Hero The Swiss make all kinds of music boxes. Big People and Little People of Other Lands Then Raggedy Andy jumped from his chair and wound up the little music box. Raggedy Andy Stories The music is transmitted through the stick from the music box to the violin. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do Then Cleopatra moved up to the squeaky end of the piano and gave an imitation of a Swiss music box. You Can Search Me These tall bushes of purple and white lilacs were veritable music boxes, for almost every one held a Catbird's nest. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners So the boy got into the carriage and took the music box with him, while the poor boy went back to the rich man's house. Philippine Folk-Tales He touched a button and a music box in the dragon's head began to play a tune. The Lost Princess of Oz "No, no, not I, vrouw, for the good Lord has already given me a music box without pay." Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates The music boxes of the West are unknown in China except as they are imported. The Chinese Boy and Girl On the second floor she met the gnarled old woman who possessed the music box. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets The king was much pleased, for he knew the princess would be delighted, so he had the carriage and the music box taken into her vault, and played on the music box a long time. Philippine Folk-Tales But broken music boxes may drink whatsoever they list, and no one cares whether they lose their figure. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories A little clearing had been made in the parlor, a music box pricking out the "Blue Danube." Star-Dust The pipe organ remained in place, music boxes and wonderful mechanical toys had been added, rugs that had been in the house were spread on the floor. Michael O'Halloran In passing through the halls he came upon the gnarled and leathery old woman who possessed the music box. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Soon the king saw the beautiful carriage and heard the sweet music of the music box. Philippine Folk-Tales The ringing of the Sunday morning church bells was a startling sound and Paula exclaimed, as the three stood still listening: "Oh, listen to the music box!" The Little Immigrant There will be no 'music boxes' in Bute kirks this generation, Mary. A Daughter of Fife It's got to have music boxes in it, and a floor fit for dancing and skating, and a stage for our own entertainments, and the folks we decide to bring here to amuse us. Michael O'Halloran Pray, do not think we build you any throne On skill alone; There's nothing regal in a music box— In simple vox! Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 The boy told the king that he must tell his employer, and soon the carriage and the music box were sent to the king for a present. Philippine Folk-Tales As if some horrid music box which played always the same restless dirge, the lid of it thus lifted, her mother�s long obsession for vengeance once more began to work inside her. Highland Ballad He went softly over to the music box near the drinking fount and dropped a nickel into the slot. Tales of the Road We ain't got the new rugs, and the music box, and the books; or the old furniture rubbed and oiled yet. Michael O'Halloran My piece of melon had the stem on it and I said it was a music box. Princess Polly's Playmates "And that," he asked again, pointing to the music box, "which is not alive and yet makes a noise?" Allan and the Holy Flower How it happened no one knows, but one of the women had placed a bowl with hot punch on the music box. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy The tones of the old music box were sweet, like the swelling of rich bells. Tales of the Road In its normal condition it was a perfectly quiet and ugly chair, but there was a catch under one arm and a music box under the seat. Mary-'Gusta "Yes," she replied, "but I like to play also, and I feel sometimes as if I were a music box with all the play shut up inside me." The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy An illuminated hand and arm was now seen to come from behind the curtain, and played an accompaniment to the music box on the guitar. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life She had wound up the music box, after hearing it play, but the catch which made it a perfectly safe seat and not a trap for the unwary had refused to push back into place. Mary-'Gusta And the music box under the seat of the chair he sat in informed everyone with cheerful vigor that the Campbells were coming, Hurrah! Mary-'Gusta If that kitchen chair had been the never-to-be-forgotten piece of furniture with the music box beneath it and that box had started to play, Isaiah could not have risen more promptly. Mary-'Gusta The forms now filed into the cabinet again, while the music box played. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life After the light went out again, more hands were seen; the table was floated about over the heads of the circle, as was the music box, which weighed at least fifty pounds. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life The manager now led the blindfolded medium to the rear of the stage, where he was seated somewhat behind a table, on which were some flowers, a music box, etc. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life He should then with his right hand press this card on top of his head and give the answer, while his left hand lays the opened envelope on the table or music box. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life And if that catch were released, then when anyone sat in it, the music box played "The Campbell's Are Coming" with spirit and jingle. Mary-'Gusta The trap and ladder were practically noiseless in their operations, but the music box made assurance doubly sure that the least sound from the cabinet should not he heard in the seance room. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life The light was again turned out and the music box started, when TWO bright spots appeared on the carpet, one at either end of the table. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life In this case he could leave the surplus cards on the back of the table behind the music box, and have in his left palm only the single card he is reading. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life The manager seated himself close to one side of the cabinet entrance, and started a large Swiss music box. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life And still the music box played—and played—and played. Mary-'Gusta You can readily understand the forces that floated the music box and table above the heads of the sitters, and an explanation is useless. 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