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  • The huge cars, with their bevelled-glass windows, dripped water from all parts; the locomotive puffed, resting from its run, and the bellows between car and car, like great accordeons, had black drops slipping down their corrugations.

    Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

  • There are violins by the score, accordeons, mandolins, flutes, clarionets, and in fact nearly every musical instrument known to the age, with the exception of brass band horns.

    Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker Thomas S. Gaines 1889

  • Tom cats, operatic screechers, brass band and violin murderers, broken down hand organs and accordeons, Red River carts during the dry season, the maniacal howling of the bulls and bears of Broad Street, and many other noises of like character, but none of them are at all comparable to the voicings of these Hydah dogs, when thoroughly warmed up to their best efforts by a few hours 'practice.

    Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia 1882

  • In the boat, most beautifully trimmed, were a harp, guitars, accordeons, and a carabao's horn; in the other burned a ship's fire; and tea, coffee and salabat -- a tea of ginger sweetened with honey -- were making for the first breakfast.

    An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Jos�� Rizal 1878

  • And musical instruments, flutes and flageolets and violins, and oh, the accordeons!

    A Little Girl in Old New York Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • a pedler disposed of thirty-eight accordeons, each with an instruction-book in which this same air under its original name was the ONLY air.

    Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881

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