Besides, Mr. Maugans was so used to playing the melodeon that instead of tapping the keys he was continually squeezing them, and nothing came.
After the concert was over, Mr. Hutchinson rolled up the melodeon in his pocket handkerchief and took it home.
The old melodeon that I remember was rickety and out of repair when I was a prattling infant, was on the stage last evening.
I was glad to learn that our piano, our parlor organ, and our melodeon were to be the best instruments of the kind that could be had in the market.
She picked up his hat from where it lay on the melodeon and fingered it a bit, smiling at him in the ingenuous manner that was utterly disarming.
When presently the girl at the melodeon ceased and drew the lid over the keys with reverent fingers, he moved silently back a pace or two along the wall.
Inside the dusky living room where the bright blankets glowed on the walls and the ollas hung in the deep window places, Tharon Last sat at the little old melodeon and played her nameless tunes.
She no longer sang her wordless songs, no longer played for hours on the little old melodeon by the western door.
My sister Hattie was able to play a few simple tunes on the melodeon and Cyrus and Eva or Mary Abbie and John occasionally came in to sing.
Ten minutes later the street preacher, drenched and furious, was trundling his melodeon toward Funeral Hollow, on his way to the coast.
He saw dimly the stone angel standing in the porch, and, leaving hismelodeon on the pavement, entered the gate to examine it.
She "carried" the alto by ear, danced without being taught, played the melodeon without knowing the notes.
Rebecca could have played Mendon in the dark, so she went to the melodeon and did so without any ado, no member of her family being present to give her self-consciousness.
The supper was not over ere Lin and Alfred were in the parlor with the melodeonendeavoring to sing the songs of the minstrels.
Billy's flute and themelodeon did not harmonize as the melodeon had only three notes left in it.
It's a wonder he didn't try to get the melodeon out eny way.
When they reached home the melodeon was started up again, and its strains swelled out on the night air until the father closed the rehearsal abruptly by ordering all to bed.
Brother Joe would have toys and a sled, Sister Lizzie anything she wanted, Brother Will anything he needed, a melodeon for Lin.
Ye can't foller a fiddle an' sing, ye got to hev a melodeon or accordion.
Our next move was to shove the screen back and mount the volunteer singers, melodeon and all, upon the platform,--some twenty of them crowded together behind the minister.
The melodeon was not, originally, designed for the Gothic worship.
It bocht the melodeon here, that Hobby wadna gie this puir lad a shilling for.
Jeremy smashed the heavy candle over my father's head, and fled upstairs, not because he was afraid for himself, but in order to protect the melodeonfrom the blow he saw coming.
On the table, just undone from its wrappings, lay a tinselled and silver melodeon of the latest type.
He took the candle in his left hand, and with the melodeon still in his right he went down to the chamber beneath.
And all the while, now with one leg on the table, and swinging his body to the time of the music, or crouched in a corner nursing his melodeon against him as if he were a beast ready for the spring, Jeremy beat the measure with his foot.
In the wink of an eyelid he had laid aside his melodeon and caught her again by the wrist.
It was Mad Jeremy going out serenely enough, carrying the candle in one hand, and his precious melodeon in the other.
Somebody said there was a melodeon in the Hall, and somebody else said--you--you played on it.
Henry Burr was standing near the door, his hat in his hand, watching Madeline out of the corners of his eyes, as she closed the melodeon and adjusted her shawl.
Madeline Brand, as she sat at the melodeon below the minister's desk, stifled a small yawn with her pretty fingers.
If a melodeon is used as an accompaniment to the piece, it should be played to imitate the roaring of the ocean.
Light the stage very little, and produce discordant sounds on a melodeon in the ante-room.
The Melodeonwas found too small, and Music-Hall was secured.
Ellis, a Boston merchant, that Parker quit sleepy Roxbury and defy classic Boston by renting the Melodeon Theater and stating his views, instead of having them retailed on the street from mouth to mouth.
And now they said that Hepnon tried to coax out of the old melodeon the music of the Golden Pipes.
From the concertina he passed to the violin, and his skill and mastery over his followers grew; and then there came a notable day when up over a thousand miles of country a melodeon was brought him.
He seemed to spend all his time on the after-hatch, always in his blue and black football jersey and a Tam o' Shanter, and generally with a melodeon and some appreciative comrade, whom he would openly nudge as I appeared.
His melodeon was slung across his shoulders, and he had a gleaming something between his teeth.
And now the knife was back in his mouth--the blood had caked upon his beard--and the melodeon was between his hands.
As we dipped to port, Clunie suddenly lifted his melodeon in both hands, and heaved it clean over my head.
She returned to the melodeon and sat down with her back toward him.
I was told that he had, on a former occasion, dealt with the question in a more summary way, by taking his ax and splitting a melodeon to pieces.
When a melodeon was introduced into the church, he was sorely grieved and furiously angry.
The melodeon and the hymn book were in accord as to the tune, but Captain Eben and the various members of the congregation seemed to have a desire to improvise.
A few moments thereafter the sound of a squeaky melodeon came from within the building.
Bare wooden walls, a beamed ceiling, a raised platform at one end with a table and chairs and the melodeon upon it, rows of wooden settees for the congregation--that was all.
There ain't nothin' gone but the melodeon that used to set by the mantel.
There ain't no cat, James, that could get into a melodeon through a mouse hole, more especially the big maltese you gave me.
You do not like it much, any more than he would like a melodeon or a piano.
The melodeon was given by ladies in Georgetown, D.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melodeon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: harmonium; melodeon; organ
