key-bugle

• “His sleep was exceedingly fitful and troubled; he saw Morgiana in a hundred shapes; he dreamed that he was dressing her hair; that he was riding with her to Richmond; that the horse turned into a dragon, and Morgiana into Woolsey, who took him by the throat and choked him, while the dragon played the key-bugle.”

  Mens Wives

• “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

• “The notes of a key-bugle from one of them seemed to suggest Mr. Bob Sawyer and Mr. Ben Allen; but whether those young gentlemen were of the party or not I did not hear.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873

• “Another accomplishment, at which not a few of the fast fellows excel, is that of imitating upon a key-bugle various animals, in an especial manner the braying of an ass: when the fast fellows drive down to the”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843

• “In the ophicleide, the bass of the key-bugle, the bore is sufficiently wide to produce the fundamentals of a satisfactory quality.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

• “Mahillon (op.cit. p. 117) points out that the tonality of the key-bugle and kindred instruments is determined by the second harmonic given out by the open tube, the first key remaining open.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

• “He played his key-bugle for them, showed them how to bark birches for the purpose of making canoes (he was building one for his own use) and finally gave them a supper of wild duck, served on birch-bark platters, and corn pone baked on a plank before the embers of a campfire and seasoned mildly with wood smoke.”

  Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch

• “With the whip in one hand and the reins in the other, and a key-bugle behind, she would not exchange places with the Queen herself.”

  Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857

• “An 'it keeps workin' up an 'down an' makin 'noises just like Billy Richard's key-bugle.”

  Nicky-Nan, Reservist

• “And then very quietly and distinctly the notes of M. Trinquier's key-bugle rose outside on the frosty air.”

  Wandering Heath

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