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The man with the collecting box made his rounds among the crowd which the sounds of the street-organ had caused to gather at the corner of Raadhuis Straat.
Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964
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Out of the corner of her eye she could see her employer in earnest conversation with the proprietors of the street-organ.
Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964
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This instrument had the appearance of a big wine-cask and yet a street-organ at the same time, and was an invention of the ingenious inn-keeper.
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He has a feeling of vague disgust when he sees a vulgar picture, a shudder when the street-organ grinds.
Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter
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His music is the street-organ, the movie piano, and the band -- some of it excellent too -- but none of your dreamy stuff -- good and lively.
Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter
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This is easily accounted for by the number of simple and catching melodies contained in his operas, and which have become so quickly popular, that we hear them on every street-organ.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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Nor is it, I fancy, a profitable day for a street-organ man, who requires a sunny morning with open windows for a rush of business.
Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906
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He would have dined the oftener had he pitched upon a street-organ.
Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906
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Or one has an ear, and the street-organ commends itself.
Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906
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Elated with success, he and a companion later chartered a street-organ -- a doleful one-legged affair -- and as man and monkey they gathered pennies out Orange Street.
Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906
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