gramophone

• Harriet saw a game of chess being played on an upturned tea-chest outside the nearest tent, and a gramophone was balanced on an orange box. —  A Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L Sayers, - [Wimsey-Vane]
• She left after a third tune, and a gramophone was brought out and wound. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
• They saw a gramophone, a stack of records and a low bed covered with a batik cloth. —  Outsider in Amsterdam - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-de Gier 01
• It was no longer necessary to Impose silence on Mrs. Gabriel when the gramophone was at work, or now the voice we listened to had risen to the pitch of ordinary human utterance, while as for the faithfulness and individuality of these records, striking testimony was given more than once by some living friend of the dead, who, without knowing what he was about to hear, recognised the tones of the speaker. —  Collected Stories
• On the way he heard the music of a gramophone, and recognized the tango it had been playing in the morning. —  Maigret at the Crossroads - Georges Simenon - 07

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