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  • On July 14, 2015, if all goes well, the grand-piano sized robotic spacecraft will unveil the mysteries of Pluto and the Kuiper belt .

    Planet-x.com.au » New Horizons is Halfway There On September 8, NASA's New Horizons … 2009

  • There were lower extremities of the grand-piano type, and short, fat feet with a look of pincushions resolutely stuffed into shoes.

    Juggernaut Alice Campbell

  • On the front-porch I found a magnificent grand-piano, with several satin-covered arm-chairs, in one of which sat a Union soldier (one of McPherson's men), with his feet on the keys of the piano, and his musket and knapsack lying on the porch.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • The library was today rather a melancholy room: the great book-cases did not enliven it; the grand-piano, with its old dark polish, seemed like a coffin, the sarcophagus of unrisen music; the oak panelling had absorbed a richer hue with the years than once it wore; the portrait of his mother seemed farther withdrawn from sight and air; Antinoüs took a tawnier tint in his long reverie.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

  • "The Philharmonic Society in London presented to him ..... a magnificent grand-piano forte of Broadwood's manufacture."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • There was a small grand-piano in this room, a larger piano in the big, empty reception room on the other side of the house, Susan and

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • I couldn't ask Bernie to buy me one, since he refused to let me ride, so I made a skirt out of our grand-piano cover -- it was miles long, and a darling shade of green.

    The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Alaska -- open at the throat, and all that sort of thing, just like a movie-actor cowboy, only John had grown a little stout and he kept spoiling the Strong-Man picture by so everlastingly posing at one end of the grand-piano!

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • Over the top of the grand-piano, she could see him, leaning back in his chair; a slightly amused smile playing about his lips.

    The Rosary 1909

  • An upright grand-piano stood open, with a quantity of music upon it.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

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