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Examples
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This witness is an automatic barrel-organ, he thought; and just now it played the wrong tune.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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The festivities include a Friday-night dinner and dance, barrel-organ musicians and church masses.
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Not that he was partial to any other music but a barrel-organ; on the contrary, hated it.
Going into Society 2007
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One barrel-organ and a dancing-monkey — sportive by nature, but fast fading into a dull, lumpish monkey, of the
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But now, partly by the labours of successive poets, and in part by the more artificial state of society and social intercourse, language, mechanized as it were into a barrel-organ, supplies at once both instrument and tune.
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His ideas respectin his property never come upon him so strong as when he sat upon a barrel-organ and had the handle turned.
Going into Society 2007
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His ideas respectin his property never come upon him so strong as when he sat upon a barrel-organ and had the handle turned.
A House to Let 2007
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His ideas respectin his property never come upon him so strong as when he sat upon a barrel-organ and had the handle turned.
Going into Society 2007
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Not that he was partial to any other music but a barrel-organ; on the contrary, hated it.
A House to Let 2007
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Not that he was partial to any other music but a barrel-organ; on the contrary, hated it.
Going into Society 2007
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