ear-trumpet

Happy birthday to vulpine137 -- may your ear-trumpet and bathchair never let you down!

Because, y'know, same day as me and all that -- vulpine137 2009

That's great – back in the day Bros had a large, highly dedicated fanbase, so we're sure that they'll go crazy for the reunion just as soon as someone shouts news about it into their ear-trumpet.

Watchmen Won’t be Watched by Men, if Fox Get Their Way 2008

Grandet made an ear-trumpet of his hand, and the president repeated his words.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

And they drew up the chairs; and dealt the cards; and Morris chaffed his mother-in - law down her ear-trumpet and they played rubber after rubber.

The Years 2004

Think of the lion and the tiger and the leopard, and then think of man — that poor thing! — the animal of the wig, the ear-trumpet, the glass eye, the porcelain teeth, the wooden leg, the trepanned skull, the silver wind-pipe — a creature that is mended and patched all over from top to bottom.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

With this formidable announcement, the old lady opened a prodigious leather bag, from which she never parted night or day, and took out an ear-trumpet of the old-fashioned kind — something between a key-bugle and a French horn.

Armadale 2003

But his own situation demanded his attention; and leaving the to-be unhappy young man and the to-be perplexed old gentleman to settle the difficulty over the mediating ear-trumpet, he addressed himself again to his task, and proposed to take another survey of the court, with the vague hope that his aunt might show herself with such unmistakable signs of relationship as to bring his researches to an immediate and triumphant close.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

He had first to give a digest of Mr. Pfeiffer's speech into the ear-trumpet, and, it is feared, would have failed to bring the Doctor round without Miss Pix, who came up at the critical moment, and told him that she knew he must have known how when he was a boy, accompanied with such persuasive frolicking that the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

"If I were a doctor of medicine," said he, jerkily, "I should bring my patients to see you"; at which Miss Pix nodded to him most vehemently, and the Doctor wagged his ear-trumpet in delight at the retort which he thought he had made.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

Doctor, who looked about inquisitively, as Miss Pix dropped the company in a heap into his ear-trumpet.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various