A Hurdy-Gurdy was standing at the corner, playing with shrill insistence a medley of Scottish airs.
The hurdy-gurdy was strident and insistent, but for a long time no response came.
He fell to playing upon his hurdy-gurdy and to singing songs against the church and the priests before the people at the inn.
Mylio, my poor hurdy-gurdy will not wait to accompany my songs.
Goose-Skin renews his silent pledges, swearing upon his hurdy-gurdy and his chaplet of vine-leaves that he will be mute as a fish.
For your harp be the laurel of battle, for my humble hurdy-gurdy a branch of the grape vine or a bouquet of marjoram.
Your harp will be for the large hall of the manor, my hurdy-gurdy for the kitchen.
But perhaps they only mean that music critics will fail to understand it and that untutored ones like ourselves will find in the hurdy-gurdy rhythms and contortions of Mr. Prokofieff and Mr. Anisfeld a strange delight.
A small hurdy-gurdy for the use of ladies, made in France during the period of Louis XVI.
This hurdy-gurdy is of the kind which the French call vielle en luth, because its body is shaped like that of the lute.
A French hurdy-gurdy (or vielle) of the time of Louis XIV.
A fury loomed suddenly behind the mumble of a hurdy-gurdy piece; a snarl offered itself as invisible punctuation for a fol de rol of city life.
A hurdy-gurdy furnished the music and the greensward was their ballroom floor.
Everyone had a partner and everyone seemed to feel it to be his or her duty as well as pleasure to dance as long as the hurdy-gurdy man could grind out a tune.
My father used to pass an hour or two nightly at the tavern of the Little Bacchus; there also Jeannetæ the hurdy-gurdy player and Catherine the lacemaker were regular frequenters.
As an excuse for my ingratitude I ought to say that Jeannette the hurdy-gurdy player did not value her lessons any higher than I did myself, and that she willingly gave them to every ragamuffin of the district.
She danced until she was breathless and the hurdy-gurdy had gone away.
The sound of a hurdy-gurdy came from the Murillo Garden as she passed.
If the hurdy-gurdy was kept in constant tune and the great instrument was never played upon, and its barrels and tubes allowed to grow rusty, the former would at length discourse the more eloquent music of the two.
There is no more comparison between his brain and such a one as mine than between a hurdy- gurdy in the street and the great organ at Haarlem; but it is probably not true that nature has made all the difference or the greatest part of it.
As she spoke, a hurdy-gurdy in the street under her window began to play the tune of "Bon-bon Buddy, My Chocolate Drop.
The minutes might have lengthened into hours, when suddenly a hurdy-gurdy in the street below started to play a popular air.
With the hurdy-gurdy slung around my neck, therefore, I followed my uncle, who actually sold another watch before we reached a tavern.
In short, he staked off a hill claim in strict accordance with the local mining laws of Hurdy-Gurdy and put up the customary notice.
One of the party had been at Hurdy-Gurdy in the days of its glory.
V Some months later a party of men and women belonging to the highest social circles of San Francisco passed through Hurdy-Gurdy on their way to the Yosemite Valley by a new trail.
II The man who had now rediscovered Hurdy-Gurdy was evidently not curious as to its archæology.
This pantomime action and the succeeding bit of dialog are accompanied by a rollicking, hurdy-gurdy sort of motif in the orchestra.
The hurdy-gurdy music is resumed, and distant bagpipes are heard,--noises peculiar to a village fete.
There was a pause of half a minute, and then the waggon lumbered on, and the hurdy-gurdy crashed out its discordant notes.
The thunderous rattle of a heavy waggon, the discordant notes of a brass band, the din of a hurdy-gurdy frightfully out of tune, suddenly stopped.
Once, so they tells the story, Curly Bill rounds up this Slim Jim in a Red Dog hurdy-gurdy an' concloods to have some entertainment with him.
At the first move he swarms all over this Curly Bill like a wild-cat, makes him drop his gun, an' sends him out of the hurdy-gurdy on a canter.
I shore waits for your reply with impatience, for I eetches to go back an' shoot up this new hurdy-gurdy from now till sun-up.
As this sharp says: Who gives Hamilton any license to go fillin' his hurdy- gurdy full of dance-music?
Nacherally, the last hurdy-gurdy up has to move, which disposes of this yere trouble.
Hurdy-gurdy or Organistrum] The best known among the group of instruments to which the clavichord belongs are the spinet and the harpsichord.
The hurdy-gurdy man had come home and was playing his evening tune down there to the dancing children, while the inhabitants of the "Ark" were gossiping and squabbling from gallery to gallery.
There was the hurdy-gurdy man from home, on a roundabout, nodding to him as he went whirling round.
The hurdy-gurdy man lay down below in his cellar, and had as visitor that good friend of the north wind, the gout; and down in the deserted court the draught went shuffling along the dripping walls.
He danced the hurdy-gurdy on that basket till he cut his feet.
When the road opened, there was a rush of hurdy-gurdy girls for dance-halls; but that did not modify the rough chivalry of an unwritten law.
A fat hurdy-gurdy girl--or sometimes a squaw--would climb to a place in the stage.
The hurdy-gurdy girls with true German thrift charged ten dollars or more a dance--not the stately waltz, but a wild fling to shake the rafters and tire out the stoutest miners.
We bear our dreams among us, bear them all, Like hurdy-gurdy music they rise and fall, Climb to beauty and die.
A hurdy-gurdy sings in the crowded street, The golden notes skip over the sunlit stones, Wings are upon our feet.
The total amount of power required being say 320 horse-power, for which seven Pelton hurdy-gurdy wheels are employed.
The two diamond drills were driven by a small hurdy-gurdy set on the rear of the drill carriage.
As she lies there a hurdy-gurdy in the street starts to play a popular air.
The hurdy-gurdy continues, with the negress accompanying it.
The boys stepped back and the hurdy-gurdy driver busied himself at once, testing the harness and wheels and even patting the thin old nag.
Around a bend in the road came a galloping white horse, old and lean, dragging at its heels a reeling hurdy-gurdy cart.
On Tuesday night, a German named Charles Hurtzal, engineer in a mill at Silver City, came to this place, and visited the hurdy-gurdy house on B street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gurdy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
