calliopes

• Monk's natural speaking voice was the small squeaky one of a gravel-tonsiled child, but the voices of Monk's emotions were tremendous and varied--foghorns, calliopes, whistles, French horns. —  178 - The Swooning Lady
• "We'd get along a lot better without one or two human calliopes--" he begins Set down, set down," says old Dobbs from the coils of his tuba. —  Homeburg Memories
• "We'd get along a lot better without one or two human calliopes --" he begins. —  Homeburg Memories
• Hotels were doing a thriving business; steamboats were at the wharf, whistling and playing their calliopes. —  "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
• You'd have got mightily discouraged after your Antediluvians had chewed up a few dozen steam calliopes, and eaten every other able-bodied exhibit you had managed to secure. —  A House-Boat on the Styx

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