penny-whistle

Or that you lived an entire life by a dying star as another man, teaching science to your children and playing the penny-whistle for your wife.

Darth Sidious: People Person 2005

I have been tempted, in this connexion, to deplore the slender faculties of the human race, with its penny-whistle of a voice, its dull cars, and its narrow range of sight.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Her penny-whistle was intact, and the tiny harp he'd given her.

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

He inherited a penny-whistle media unit and turned it into a formidable operation.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

Besides this, there were all her other accomplishments; she could play on all sorts of musical instruments, as, for instance, fiddle and zither, large harp and jew's-harp, church organ and mouth organ, flute and penny-whistle, and even on the nursery comb; she could sing like a nightingale and dance like a fairy.

The Sleeping Beauty Arthur Rackham 1913

He'll play on a dog-fight better than you can on a penny-whistle: as soon as he chooses they're sitting one on each side of the gramophone, listening to Their

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And yet runn'st toward him still; and hence also some may infer that this pitiful penny-whistle was blown by the same breath which in time gained power to fill that archangelic trumpet.

A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

I have been tempted, in this connection, to deplore the slender faculties of the human race, with its penny-whistle of a voice, its dull ears, and its narrow range of sight.

The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I have been tempted, in this connexion, to deplore the slender faculties of the human race, with its penny-whistle of a voice, its dull cars, and its narrow range of sight.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I have been tempted, in this connection, to deplore the slender faculties of the human race, with its penny-whistle of a voice, its dull ears, and its narrow range of sight.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872