He believes firmly that a tiny dwarf resides in the box of my talking-machine and that it is the tiny dwarf who does the singing and the talking. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And when it comes to acting as a solvent of inhibitions and a loosener of reflexes, one drink, combined with a lot of hand-made music, is far more effective than ten drinks while you listen to a talking-machine or a radio. . . ❋ Jessica (2007)
A piano stood in one corner, a talking-machine in another. ❋ Lewis E. Theiss (N/A)
I own an automobile and a talking-machine, and I sleep in a brass bed when I'm at home. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
Her words were in themselves ordinary and distinct, yet what she said was entirely incomprehensible, a nightmare of speech, as though some talking-machine had gone wrong and was pouring out a miscellaneous stock of verbs, nouns, adjectives and the rest without meaning or cohesion. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"Sing some records for a talking-machine company, Hicks!" ❋ J. Raymond Elderdice (N/A)
The talking-machine was also a surprise for Allan. ❋ Margaret Widdemer (1931)
Diagonal from it, the horn of a talking-machine, in shape a large, a violent, a tin morning-glory, was directed full against the company. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. ❋ Baum, L. Frank (1917)
Mr. Meeker lubricated the talking-machine till its disk turned without a trace of the mechanism. ❋ Various (1915)
Of course I wouldn't do that, because a talking-machine is supposed to talk and make a noise -- and sometimes music. ❋ Baum, L. Frank (1913)
"With tumulchous joy we bet our wages and all the loose gear we have, and in a burst of childish enthusiasm we put up -- the talking-machine." ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
He reached round and fed the bills into the mahogany case of the talking-machine. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
On second glance it seemed a sort of shawl-strap contrivance by which the talking-machine was suspended. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
And moving his shoulders as if they ached, let the talking-machine slip sidewise to the glass. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
His firm stride jolted the talking-machine not a little. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
The talking-machine to which the horn was attached -- a handsome mahogany affair -- he carried on his back. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
He showed him an ingenious talking-machine that had been made by Baron de Kempelin. ❋ Unknown (1910)
It is not at all like a piano or a talking-machine, which has a separate existence. ❋ Unknown (1910)
