orchestrelle

Fox-trots and one-steps were being supplied by an orchestrelle of considerable size.

An American Tragedy 2004

The orchestrelle stopped and the dancers were coming out.

An American Tragedy 2004

At five-thirty when the orchestrelle was silenced for lack of customers and a sign reading “Next Concert 7.30” hung up, they were still dancing.

An American Tragedy 2004

When it stormed we moved into the great living-room, where at one end there was a fireplace with blazing logs, and at the other the orchestrelle, which had once more been freighted up those mountain heights for the comfort of its harmonies.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Once between the courses, when he rose, as usual, to walk about, he wandered into the drawing-room, and seating himself at the orchestrelle began to play the beautiful flower-song from

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

He explains how he had put in a good deal of work, with his secretary, on the orchestrelle to get the bugle-calls.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

He had the orchestrelle moved to Dublin, although it was no small undertaking, for he needed the solace of its harmonies; and so the days passed along, and he grew stronger in body and courage as his grief drifted farther behind him.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Fifth Avenue, there was music — the stately measures of the orchestrelle — while Mark Twain smoked and mingled unusual speculation with long, long backward dreams.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

He had required only that there should be one great living-room for the orchestrelle, and another big room for the billiard-table, with plenty of accommodations for guests.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The dictation ended, he would ask his secretary to play the orchestrelle, which at great expense had been freighted up from New York.

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916