One day at the laundry I found myself humming a Neapolitan love song, from a victrola record we have.
Once in a while a forlorn bunch of age would sit humped in a chair, now and then a victrola record sang forth its worn contents, twice the piano was heard.
Undoubtedly their guide dwelt eloquently on the victrola in the lunch room; it plays every noon.
Fifteen minutes later they were in the big comfortable Lee library with the victrola turned on.
Somebody had started the victrola on the counter to playing a waltz, and to its music the German boys were dancing while the little French lad gaily kept time with his crutch!
A tune from the victrola fell equally flat, even though I set my little charge on the center of the disc and allowed it to revolve at a dizzy pace, which frolic usually sent it into spasms of excited giggling.
We don't have such worse times, good quarters, fine eats, plenty to read, a victrola and a grand piano and tennis.
I want to get away from Victrola music and children's questions and four walls, and I thought you might have a similar longing.
They were speaking of the Victrola recently purchased for the Crow Hill school when Martin asked, "Have you ever heard Isabel Souders play?
The victrolaat the end of the room begins to play a curious Indian air with an uneven, fascinating, syncopated rhythm.
The music may be only from a victrola or a piano in need of tuning, but the spirit is, most surely, the vital spirit of the dance.
I am sure that you will find there several bon vivants who will be glad to join you in a game of vingt et un, and in the large room on the second floor is a victrola with splendid instrumental and vocal records of "La Marseillaise.
There was a table with a Victrola and several bottles, and on the window-sill there were stacks of the little fifteen-cent magazines with pictures on them of bucking broncos and cheering cowboys in furry chaps.
An hour or so passed in jerks; quick lovely spaces of time with the Victrola playing and short horrible periods that dragged on for years, when she relapsed into stupidity and stared at the beaded vest and tried not to talk about life.
Someone was carrying a Victrolain it and playing a record.
The girls had reserved their victrola in renting the house and it now had the place of honor near the circular seat.
I reckon 'twas the grape juice an' victrola that made her choose this one: 'Wine is a mucker an' strong drink is rag time.
Oh," innocently, "I didn't know that political situations demanded blankets and victrola records.
The Mexicans had tossed in canned goods, blankets, rifles, a couple of cash boxes and even a box of victrola records.
And our blankets and money and guns and victrola records?
He left the victrola for you, Jimmy, and the stove for Mrs. Van.
When the Victrola gave up the ghost he wound it again and came back to resume.
He would have liked to pass the victrola on to somebody else but Kate would have protested as well as Pat.
The doubt which she had cast upon the feasibility of his scheme heightened after the victrola was introduced into the flat.
Before Pat was quite two he could mess about in the cabinet of the victrola and pick out a dozen records in response to Peter's request.
XV Edith had secured the necessary records for the victrolafrom the hotel office, and she and Cosden were alone in the ball-room ready for the first lesson in modern dancing.
Each afternoon the two might be seen on the ball-room floor, working away as if their lives depended upon it, with the Victrola repeating over and over the same tunes which, except for her own persistency, would have driven Edith mad.
Wind up the victrola again, and we'll start all over.
When her mother slipped away from the others, having started the victrola and urged them to dancing, she found Gloria ready for bed but standing before her window, looking out at the first stars.
From somewhere the discordance of a Victrola jarred on Lane's sensitive ears.
We entertained them with showing them our modern guns, and with showing them their faces in good mirrors and with victrola music, at which they marveled greatly and chattered excitedly about it.
The way that old parrot flapped off of the victrola and back to the child's shoulder was a caution, squawking and snapping his beak as if he were swearing, in bird talk.
Having made this discovery I arose and got out thevictrola we bought in Georgetown.
One of the Indians who had heard our victrola pointed at it and made a circular motion with his hand, indicating that he wanted us to make the discs go around.
I understand that General Summerall visited and heard the Victrola soon after I had taken it to the boys.
I took my Victrola with two of the battery boys from F Battery.
During the day, the officer of Battery F wanted the Victrola and got the use of it in their dugout for three days.
In the meantime I had furnished Battery D the use of the Victrolaand the day I made the promise, I found the boys without chow for twelve hours.
Then suddenly some one ran up to the victrola and turned on the jazz; and in a twinkling the dining-room was deserted, furniture in the large room upstairs was pushed to the wall and the night entered on its last phase.
There was a victrola in one corner, for Miss Dwight was amenable if her guests were seized with the desire to jazz, and a grand piano stood near the lower windows.
It became the victrola phrases of a bewildered diplomacy.
Her statement, at lunch, that she was to be turned on like a Victrola at half past nine, was a fair sample.
Then I went over to the victrola and set it going in a fox-trot, one of my favorites.
Why did you set that victrola going last night and tempt me to--to--yes you did, you know darn well you did.
Is there anything else as interesting as fish hooks and Victrola needles and wooden legs to be learned?
You have to show him but once from which cactus he can get Victrola needles and fishing hooks, or where to find material for wooden legs.
We set the victrola going, and everybody danced until they forgot the thermometer.
The other day I put on the victrola a selection from "Die Walkyrie.
Here they played Bridge while the proprietor's over-plump daughter with a huge white bow on the top of her head giggled and whispered to several girl friends in the sun parlor and presently set a Victrola going.
The Victrola was at work instead and the voluptuous strains of a more than usually saccharine Viennese waltz filled the charming room.
He left Malcolm in the drawing-room waiting for the bridge table to be set, heard the Victrola on deck and went out to find Beatrix all alone, dancing like the spirit of spring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "victrola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
