flageolet

• In my youth I learnt the double flageolet, and could play it fairly. —  My Life as an Author
• So will the Ballantynes--flageolet[77] and all--for the festival and they shall be housed at Abbotsford. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• To the shrill piping of the flageolet, these merry stragglers added a step of their own, and won a crust for themselves, a bone for the dog or a handful of grain for the performing fowl In those days when court ladies rode in carved and gilded coaches, and their escorts on horses covered with silken, jeweled nets, the modest appearance of the jestress and her companion was not calculated to attract especial attention from the yokels and honest peasantry; although their steeds, notwithstanding their unpretentious housings, might still excite the cupidity of highway rogues. —  Under the Rose
• He also gratified Hockins by his evident delight in the flageolet, and his appreciation of nautical stories and "lingo," while he quite won the heart of Ebony by treating him with the same deference which he accorded to his companions. —  The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar
• Perhaps your people marched to the flageolet--a seductive instrument, I assure you The little man betrayed confusion. —  Doom Castle

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