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Examples
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Birdsong and water-music were as remote and as sweet as the tinkling of an orchestrion in a courtyard far below.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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I shook my head, for I heard the water-music of rain through the open doorway.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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Yes; the same water-music, singing over and over again the same horrid song: "Fool, fool, no Cristel for you; bid her good-bye, bid her good-bye."
The Guilty River Wilkie Collins 1856
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In my last night's sleep, it made itself heard; it was flowing in my ears with a water-music of its own.
The Guilty River Wilkie Collins 1856
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The garden (30) lies with a slope down to the Thames, on which were lighters, from whence were thrown up, after a concert of water-music, a great number of rockets.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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_water-music_, the following programme be adopted: 1.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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