ophecleide

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A heroine of six foot two or three in her sandals, with a bass voice, covers the stage with tremendous strides, and warbles out "her wood-notes" (being a Druidess she worships the _oak_) "wild," with a volume of voice which silences the trombone, and makes the ophecleide sound asthmatic.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various