Then he rose with an impatient shrug of his shoulders, crossed to the small harmonium which lay open, set his foot to the pedal and struck a single note.
To tell truth, Punoo's estimate of the harmonium was vague and misty on more points than this.
But Punoo would go on playing God Save our Gracious Queen on the old harmonium with perfect serenity, all unconscious of the fact that two women were cursing it in their hearts as a malevolent demon bent on ruining the household.
So he knelt, paralysed by the very perplexity of his own prayer, until a louder burst from the harmonium and a sudden hubbub among the carriages warned him that the service was over.
Even billing and cooing like a couple of pigeons on the roof, however, must come to an end, and after some three weeks of it, the barrister one day discovered that there was a harmonium in the dark arches of the living-room.
So he stood indifferently waiting for the first note of the harmonium to tell him his task was over; listening for it to pulsate out into the sunshine, and, blending with the last note of the gong, go forth upon the endless waves of ether.
But the note went alone into eternity, seeking judgment; for the harmoniumwas mute.
The service came to an end with the singing of a hymn to an accompaniment of grunts and wheezes from an ancient harmonium and the dropping of pennies and threepenny bits into a wooden plate.
Perhaps the harmonium might be patched up enough for Pedlinge, where our services are not as yet Fully Choral .
The new harmonium provided a good topic, for everyone had heard it, except Mrs. Tolhurst who had stayed to keep watch over Ansdore, cheering herself with the prospect of carols in the evening.
But at least I gave him a harmonium first--it's only that I couldn't abide the fuss he made of his thanks.
She had listened to the grunts and wheezes of the harmonium from her childhood, and the idea of a new one disturbed her--it suggested sacrilege and ritualism and the moving of landmarks.
The room was but scantily furnished, but there happened to be a harmonium which, after the daylight came to its untimely end, I used to play upon according to my fancy.
He asked my brother to accompany me on the harmonium and got me to sing all my hymns one after the other,--some of them I had to sing twice over.
Prayers over, Miss Elizabeth Blake, the senior lady teacher, sat down to the harmonium and played the first few bars of a hymn.
Whilst the hymn was being sung, the probationer's earnest eyes rested as often on the yellow-haired girl at the harmonium as on his particular charge, the dusky choir.
Then a diversion was created by some of the church choir practicing the harmonium with the singing of certain more or less lugubrious anthems.
She was to stay at one of those refuges for timid ladies with connections in the Church which are scattered about Berlin and called Christliche Hospiz, places where, besides coffee and rolls, there are prayers and a harmonium for breakfast.
But this time, the harmonium was silent; Miss Percival was no longer there.
Formerly, every Sunday at high mass, and every evening during the month of Mary, Mademoiselle Hebert, the reader to Madame de Longueval, played the little harmonium given by the Marquise.
A harmoniumfor accompanying the voices, and a few chairs for the audience, was all the furniture the room contained.
When we arrived there, we found that the accompanist who usually played the harmonium for them was unable to be present, and Miss Roberts asked if I would be his substitute.
Almost immediately "John Powles" stepped out, dressed in uniform, and stood by the harmonium with his hand upon my shoulder.
Ziehharmonica or Bandoneon), a wind instrument of the seraphine family with free reeds, forming a link in the evolution of the harmonium from the mouth organ, intermediate links being the cheng and the accordion.
The English concertina possesses one peculiarity which renders it unsuitable for playing with instruments tuned according to the law of equal temperament, such as the pianoforte, harmoniumor melodion, i.
The Spawer had troubled his last moments with a hymn-tune on a cacophonous harmonium that emitted a discordant clamor like a flock of geese in full prayer; and the girl had read him a chapter out of St. Mark--or was it Matthew or Luke?
Little woman," said the Spawer, "no one knows better than you what an act of martyrdom it is for a pianist to sit down to a harmoniumand humble himself to a hymn tune.
Relying upon these indications he went to Paradise Row, dressed in his best frock coat, with gloves in his hand, to declare to his love that the lodgings need not be abandoned, and that the clock and harmoniummight be preserved.
Now, if you please, you may just as well send over that clock and that harmonium to Daniel Tribbledale, Esq.
And there were the lodgings and the clock and the harmonium ready for the occasion.
In the gallery an harmoniumaccompanied the responses of voices never to be forgotten.
My old school chum and bush mate, Jack Barnes, had married pretty little Clara Southwick, who used to play the portable harmoniumin chapel.
The Southwicks used to bring a cranky little harmonium in the back of their old dog-cart, and Clara Southwick used to accompany the hymns.
Lesbia, however, played rather nicely; she could manage the harmonium at the Sunday School, and was just beginning to practise the organ under Winnie's instructions.
Hetty was passionately fond of music, and had taught herself to play the harmonium sufficiently to accompany simple hymns.
Put the harmonium inside, hang up a lantern to see by, and there you are, with a movable concert platform ready to take round where we like.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harmonium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: harmonium; melodeon; organ
