They could not make these out at first, but as they became louder our friends thought they heard a sort of music like that made by a wheezy hand-organ; the music fell upon their ears in this way: ❋ Unknown (2010)
Born approximately 1325 and blind from boyhood, it was in music that he sought comfort and bliss; he played numerous instruments, foremost the ‘organetto’, the small portable hand-organ which at that time was particularly popular for performing secular music. ❋ Lu (2009)
He went reluctantly behind the curtain and soon reappeared carrying in his arms a small hand-organ, which he put down on the table with an air of deep dejection. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Very often he had heard by chance a piano, an unknown voice, even a hand-organ in the street playing some old air, which had suddenly made him feel twenty years younger, filling his breast with tender recollections, long buried. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“Trovatore” and other old operas which the hand-organ and the music-box have made entirely familiar to my ear. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then suddenly at one of the street corners she saw a boy standing, carrying a hand-organ on his back and a funny-looking animal on his arm. ❋ Unknown (2000)
He pulled open the door, and there in front of him he saw a ragged little boy carrying a hand-organ on his back. ❋ Unknown (2000)
They started off together along the street, and on the way Heidi asked her companion what he was carrying on his back; it was a hand-organ, he told her, which played beautiful music when he turned the handle. ❋ Unknown (2000)
In New Orleans, I was astounded at the strange phenomenon of a colored hand-organ grinder. ❋ Unknown (1995)
At the far end of the scriptorium range in the cloister, under the south wall of the church, Brother Anselm the precentor was trying out a chant on his small hand-organ, a sequence of a half-dozen notes repeated over and over, like an inspired bird-call, sweet and sad. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1985)
One morning the hand-organ man got up earlier than usual. ❋ Richard Barnum (N/A)
The hand-organ man never let him loose; always was there that chain and string fast to the collar on Mappo's neck. ❋ Richard Barnum (N/A)
"Ah, he is a fine monkey!" the hand-organ man would say. ❋ Richard Barnum (N/A)
Then, every day, Mappo was made to go out with the man and his hand-organ, and when the man played tunes, Mappo would watch the windows of the houses in front of which his master stopped. ❋ Richard Barnum (N/A)
"Now I'll teach you to climb up on porch houses, go up the rain-water pipes, and up to windows, to get pennies," said the hand-organ man. ❋ Richard Barnum (N/A)
Once it was to go to the circus, away on the other side of the city, and again it was to follow a hand-organ man and a monkey. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
They're about up to that hand-organ stuff of Sig-ner Róssyni, likely. ❋ Various (N/A)
And yet the hand-organ, so often the subject of municipal legislation, is dulcet music compared with the steam-whistle, even when the latter instrument takes its most ambitiously artistic form of the "Calliope." ❋ Various (N/A)
There was an Italian woman came to the village with a broken hand-organ, a filthy, starving wretch, and Gurney's little girl went with her from house to house in the snow, singing Christmas carols, and handing the tambourine. ❋ Various (N/A)
