On Saturday night you'd hear them fiddles and banjoes playin' and the niggers singin'.
That night all the slaves what could brung they banjoes and fiddles and played for the white folks to dance all night.
The banjoes was made of round pieces of wood, civered with sheepskin and strung with catgut strings.
The cab turned into a street where, in spite of the drizzle, hawkers with their push-carts under flaring, spitting gasoline banjoes were doing a thriving business.
Presently it turned into a hiving, narrow street, where hawkers with their push-carts in the light of flaring, spitting gasoline banjoes were doing a thriving business.
Young Preston seated himself on the platform, and several sable gentlemen with banjoes and fiddles took places beside him.
These seats were occupied by the orchestra, the same negro waiters, with two violins and a number of banjoes and guitars.
When the door was opened, distant sounds of the thrumming of banjoes could be heard.
Dar wus a heap o' dancin' ter de music of banjoes an' han' slappin'.
Night falls in the Ti-Tree, Dusk fades from the hill-- The Frogs on their banjoes Are strumming their fill With a will.
Illustration] Banjoes in the near pond Bones in the other-- In ecstasy Crickets Outshrill one another.
Quill music, from a homemade harmonica, was played when banjoes were not available.
Many "frolics" were given and everyone danced where banjoes were available; also, these resourceful people secured much of their music from an improvised fiddle fashioned from a hand saw.
Some of them had been sung to the banjoes round camp fires, and some had run as far down coast as Rangoon and Moulmein, and up to Mandalay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banjoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
