Will you please turn off your hurdy-gurdy for five minutes?. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Georgia, Russia: Cyber Attacks on Blogger ‘Cyxymu’] Reference
Down another narrow street a hurdy-gurdy ground out a hymn. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
There were hurdy-gurdy players and harpists and clarinet players. From Wordnik.com. [Sounds of Victorian London] Reference
They saw Bert and Freddie in the crowd around the hurdy-gurdy man. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
The spooky hurdy-gurdy music on the chapter breaks is also a nice flourish. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Tonio will take to the hurdy-gurdy again; him an 'Puck should win money too. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
Another member of the band was the sexiest hurdy-gurdy player I've ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
"Go on," she told him, as the sound of a hurdy-gurdy brayed out on her right. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle And The Nightingale]
He had gone into a courtyard off Holborn, drawn by the sound of a hurdy-gurdy. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Try David Brock of Media Matters, former hurdy-gurdy man of the right-wing wurlitzer. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Head to Heads] Reference
Besides singing, Pelgen plays whistles and bagpipes while Kulinsky plays the hurdy-gurdy. From Wordnik.com. [Adaro, Schlaraffenland (Inside Out, 2004)] Reference
If Chimpy is raptured is he going to leave behind his hurdy-gurdy and his little chimp hat?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » As violence spreads in the Middle East,] Reference
The two diamond drills were driven by a small hurdy-gurdy set on the rear of the drill carriage. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
The best fun would be a huge hurdy-gurdy or something of that kind, an instrument with sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
I kneaded the new tweed cap in my sweaty fist while the hurdy-gurdy prickled, sponged and thumped. From Wordnik.com. [The Machineries of Joy]
The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays a hurdy-gurdy. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
The two exceptions are the demented hoedown "Yummi Yah" and the hurdy-gurdy tune "Bollywood Express.". From Wordnik.com. [Instinkt, Grum (Go, 2006)] Reference
But asking me to bodyguard is like asking an opera diva to sing on the corner with a hurdy-gurdy man. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
Monsieur le Cure, he was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a hurdy-gurdy. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
An old man was selling the Picayune, and there was a hurdy-gurdy playing on the other side of the street. From Wordnik.com. [Half of Paradise] Reference
The little children in the alleys of a great city seem to be agitated in the same way by the hurdy-gurdy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
Then there's a hurdy-gurdy and some piano, and there's a bouzouki, and then you hear an electric guitar as well. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: Monday Will Never Be The Same : Conversations With Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik, David Gray and Josiah Leming] Reference
In "Chanterai por mon carriage," for example, Barnes sang the opening verse over a plain drone in the hurdy-gurdy. From Wordnik.com. [Ensemble La Rota] Reference
The total amount of power required being say 320 horse-power, for which seven Pelton hurdy-gurdy wheels are employed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
But now as the limpid, formless notes came tumbling out, as if from a mechanical hurdy-gurdy, she had to laugh at herself. From Wordnik.com. [Space]
Bloomfield tunnel in California, some years since, will give a good illustration of some of the advantages of the hurdy-gurdy. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
Freckles in the dormitory window and look out on the street, for maybe there might be a hurdy-gurdy with a monkey passing through. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
It was as bittersweet as a hurdy-gurdy played on a streetcorner in Lang's Berlin, or as melancholy as a tango in a Parisian brothel. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Peer Raben, 1940 - 2007.] Reference
The rote a sort of guitar, or rather hurdy-gurdy, the strings of which were managed by a wheel, from which the instrument took its name. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
Lark In The Morning's catalog entries on the hurdy-gurdy, and an article on the history of the instrument, also from Lark in the Morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "China Doll"] Reference
Isn't a hurdy-gurdy something played by a guy with a monkey?. From Wordnik.com. [Woot! - One Day, One Deal] Reference
The other players are superb: just give a listen to the hurdy-gurdy. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Tommy might have remained limp indefinitely had not a hurdy-gurdy opportunely arrived on the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Lovey Mary] Reference
After all, this is Tom Waits, the reeling hurdy-gurdy poet of the rasping voice and the ominous circus lyrics. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Such diplomatic hurdy-gurdy reflects the fact that the Commonwealth has a membership unlike any other world body. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Charles Hurtzal, engineer in a mill at Silver City, came to this place, and visited the hurdy-gurdy house on B street. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
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