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Examples
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To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a worn-out musical-box.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a worn-out musical-box.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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It was pleasant to see him with that musical-box — how pleased he wound it up after dinner — how happily he listened to the little clinking tunes as they galloped, ding-dong, after each other!
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There is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg — the kindest and simplest of Irishmen: he has embraced his children, and reviewed his little invalid garrison of fifteen men, in the fort which he commands at Belem, by this time, and, I have no doubt, played to every soul of them the twelve tunes of his musical-box.
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A man who carries a musical-box is always a good-natured man.
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The musical-box ran down with a slowing up of the music.
The Secret of Moon Castle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1978
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"You'll have time to set the musical-box going if we come here, " she said.
The Secret of Moon Castle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1978
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Mike had heard it too, and Paul, but the girls were too engrossed in the musical-box.
The Secret of Moon Castle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1978
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And he must remember to look for the musical-box that played a hundred tunes - and could he possibly try on a suit of armour?
The Secret of Moon Castle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1978
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"Well - I'll go and find the musical-box, " said Jack, thinking that it would be fun to get it out and have it ready for the others when they came back.
The Secret of Moon Castle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1978
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